# Sylvia API, free: Reddit profile API

> Returns user profile info: name, karma, account age, avatar, and more.

Sylvia API's Reddit profile API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 profiles. It returns 3 of the 6 key fields we check: Photo, Status, Karma.
We haven't run Sylvia API through [our Reddit profile API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-reddit-profile-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 168 plans for Reddit profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.244 per 1,000 profiles or less.
[RedditAPI's $499 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/redditapi/499-monthly-2000000-reads-get-api-reddit-users-batch/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 profiles: $0.0025.
[API Direct](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/api-direct/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-request-get-v1-reddit-user/llms.txt), [RedditAPI](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/redditapi/top-up-from-10-pay-as-you-go-get-api-reddit-user-name/llms.txt) and [AnyAPI](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/anyapi/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) are the best Reddit profile API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/sylvia-api/free
- [Reddit profile API: 3 providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-reddit-profile-api.txt)
- Get it: https://sylvia-api.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-profile-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.sylvia-api.com/v1/reddit/u/{username}/about`
- API key: with the plan, on https://sylvia-api.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-profile-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://sylvia-api.com/docs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-profile-api-pricing
- Sold by: Sylvia API (https://sylvia-api.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-profile-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Photo: ✓
- Status: ✓
- Karma: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 profiles: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Subreddit metadata · Subreddit rules · Subreddit post listing · Subreddit live comment stream · Subreddit sticky posts · List subreddit wiki pages · Get subreddit wiki page · User content · Fetch post by URL · Fetch comment by URL · Fully resolved thread · Global Reddit search · Crosspost duplicates · Posts linking to a domain · Load more comments · Fetch by fullname IDs · Browse subreddits · Search subreddits · Autocomplete subreddit names

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Returns user profile info: name, karma, account age, avatar, and more.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to call the API and use its output for your own purposes. You may not resell or redistribute the raw API output as a competing service without our written approval. You may not use the service to do any of the following: Launch denial-of-service attacks or send traffic that overloads us, Try to bypass or defeat rate limits, Probe, scan, or reverse-engineer the service, Send spam or unsolicited mass messages using data you read through the API, Harass, threaten, or defraud anyone, Publish personal data of individuals in a way that breaks privacy law, Impersonate people or companies, Run phishing or malware campaigns, Create fake accounts or deceptive content at scale, Manufacture fake engagement. That means fake upvotes, fake reviews, or coordinated inauthentic behavior, Resell or redistribute raw API output as a competing service without our written approval, Scrape or harvest our API in bulk to build a clone of it, Break any law that applies to you, Break the terms of a third party whose data you read through our API. That includes Reddit's own terms.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $0.50
- Enough for: 1,000 calls

## Rate limit

- Per second: 8
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: username
- Method: GET
- Path: /u/{username}/about

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

username, account created, post karma, comment karma, profile picture, Reddit employee, success, request ID

## Sylvia API's plans (4)

- [Sylvia API, free](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/sylvia-api/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Sylvia API, top-up from $50](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/sylvia-api/top-up-from-50/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Sylvia API, top-up from $200](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/sylvia-api/top-up-from-200/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Sylvia API, top-up from $500](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/sylvia-api/top-up-from-500/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 50% complete, live

## Sylvia API's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /u/{username}/about`: [Sylvia API, free](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/sylvia-api/free/llms.txt)

## Sylvia API's APIs (2)

- [Sylvia API: Reddit post API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/sylvia-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Sylvia API: Reddit profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/sylvia-api/free/llms.txt)

## Sylvia API: Reddit profile API alternatives

- [Apixstar, contact us, Enterprise, GET /reddit/v1/u/{username}](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/apixstar/contact-us-enterprise-get-reddit-v1-u-username/llms.txt): $0.49 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/fetchlayer/500-monthly/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 83% complete, live
- [ChocoData, $100 monthly, Custom $100, POST /api/v1/{site}/batch](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/chocodata/100-monthly-custom-100-post-api-v1-site-batch/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [RedditScraperAPI, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/redditscraperapi/contact-us/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 33% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://sylvia-api.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-profile-api-pricing
- https://sylvia-api.com/acceptable-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-profile-api-pricing
- https://sylvia-api.com/docs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-profile-api-pricing
- https://sylvia-api.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-profile-api-pricing
- https://sylvia-api.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-profile-api-pricing
- https://sylvia-api.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-profile-api-pricing
- https://sylvia-api.com/privacy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-profile-api-pricing
- https://sylvia-api.com/rate-limits.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-profile-api-pricing
- https://sylvia-api.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reddit-profile-api-pricing