Reddit · Rate Limits

Reddit Rate Limits

The Reddit Data API enforces per-OAuth-client rate limits and returns 429 when exceeded. Reddit's public developer documentation pages were not fetchable from this run, so exact numeric ceilings have not been reconciled live; commercial tier ceilings are negotiated.

Reddit Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Reddit on the APIs.io network, in the API Commons Rate Limits shape.

It captures 2 rate-limit definitions, measuring varies.

An exhausted limit returns HTTP 429.

This profile was written by API Evangelist and has not been verified against a page the provider published; treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.

The profile also includes 3 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Social Media, Content, and Rate Limiting.

2 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429
Method: generated, dated 2026-05-05.
Written by API Evangelist on 2026-05-05 and not verified against a page the provider published. Treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.
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Limits

OAuth client rate limit oauth-client
varies
enforced per OAuth client; see Reddit /wiki/api for current per-minute allowances
Commercial contract limit contract
varies
negotiated per commercial contract

Policies

OAuth Required
All non-trivial Data API access requires OAuth authentication; rate-limit counters are tracked per client_id.
429 Backoff
When throttled, Reddit returns HTTP 429; clients should honor any Retry-After response and apply exponential backoff with jitter.
Commercial Use Requires Contract
Commercial usage above the free tier requires a Reddit Data API commercial agreement; ceilings and pricing are negotiated.

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