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.
2 Limits
Throttle: 429
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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.