![]() I hope it goes without saying that I don’t have that kind of money or would even know how to charge it to a credit card.Ĭhristian highlights he isn’t giving up on Apollo at this point, but that the situation will “require some thinking.” Hopefully, there’s a path to a solution, but for the moment, Reddit has said it is not flexible on the API pricing. While Reddit has been communicative and civil throughout this process with half a dozen phone calls back and forth that I thought went really well, I don’t see how this pricing is anything based in reality or remotely reasonable. For reference, I pay Imgur, a site similar to Reddit in userbase and media, $166 for the same 50 million API calls.ĭigging into more details, Christian estimates that with this change, Reddit is set to charge third-party devs about 20x higher cost for API calls than what native users like cost Reddit.Ĭhristian closes his open letter by saying: Twitter’s pricing was publicly ridiculed for its obscene price of $42,000 for 50 million tweets. Reddit iterated that the price would be A) reasonable and based in reality, and B) they would not operate like Twitter. Even if I only kept subscription users, the average Apollo user uses 344 requests per day, which would cost $2.50 per month, which is over double what the subscription currently costs, so I’d be in the red every month.įor some context, he shared 50 million API calls with Imgur is $166 – compared to $12,000 for Reddit and $42,000 for Twitter. ![]() Since Apollo does about 7 billion requests per month, that comes out to ~$1.7 million per month or $20 million per year for Apollo’s API access.Ĭhristian notes that “Even if I only keep subscription users” those numbers would necessitate double the subscription cost of Apollo just to break even, let alone earn any income.Īpollo made 7 billion requests last month, which would put it at about 1.7 million dollars per month, or 20 million US dollars per year. Reddit told Christian the new cost would be $12,000 per 50 million requests. No major features or changes are expected in these versions of system software, as the majority of Apple’s developmental effort is likely being placed on the iOS 17 beta. Indie dev Christian Selig shared the details of what he’s up against on Reddit after multiple phone calls with the platform regarding the cost of its updated API.Īfter reassuring Christian that the new API pricing would be “reasonable and based in reality” and that Reddit “would not operate like Twitter,” it sounds like the company is doing a 180 or has very different ideas about what “reasonable” and “based in reality” mean. Apple has released the third beta versions of iOS 16.6, iPadOS 16.6, and macOS Ventura 13.5 to users who are still running betas of the current generation of system software. In a new Reddit thread, Apollo developer Christian Selig has shared details about what Reddit is saying it will cost to use the updated API.Īpollo has become one of the most feature-rich and popular Reddit clients over the past years. Following Twitter’s move to shut down third-party apps earlier this year, it looks like Reddit may be the next platform to kill off (or drastically reduce) popular third-party clients.
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