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, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.
It captures 2 rate-limit definitions, measuring varies.
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
Throttle: 429
Social MediaContentRate Limiting
Limits
OAuth client rate limit oauth-client
enforced per OAuth client; see Reddit /wiki/api for current per-minute allowances
Commercial contract limit contract
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.
Sources
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Every rate limit here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.