Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for third-party apps

Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by fluidcruft on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @02:33PM (#36142019)

> As of July 1, 2023, we will enforce two different rate limits for the free access tier:

> If you are using OAuth for authentication: 100 queries per minute per OAuth client id

> If you are not using OAuth for authentication: 10 queries per minute

So... doesn't this mean that each logged in Apollo/3rd party client user can make 100 requests per minute for free?

The Apollo developer says his average user makes less than 400 requests per day and it's somehow going to average $2.50 per user per month. I must be missing something.

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Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by jsnell on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @02:41PM (#36142165)

The client id is per-app, not per enduser.

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Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by fluidcruft on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @02:44PM (#36142222)

Really? That's super dumb of Reddit. Maybe Apollo can just let users drop in their own API keys.

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Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by tamirzb on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @09:01PM (#36146477)

Why not have each user register their own "client"? Is it that complicated?

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Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by deely3 on Thursday June 01, 2023 @01:51AM (#36147947)

Because this way each client should be registered in Reddit backend.

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Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by busymom0 on Thursday June 01, 2023 @05:57AM (#36149179)

Technically that could be done. Each user could create a client ID and then input that in the app and then the app could use it to make requests. But I doubt Reddit will be happy about that and will quickly send a cease and desist to the developer and ban those users.

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Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by 16bitvoid on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @02:48PM (#36142290)

No. That's the limit of how many queries can be made per minute on the free tier, but it doesn't state what the free tier entails or what it can be used for. My guess, based on Christian's post, is that third-party clients would not be eligible for the free tier and that the free tier is for uses like bots.

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Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by fluidcruft on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @02:49PM (#36142306)

Maybe open source clients would be eligible to use the free tier and it's that Apollo is a commercial actor.

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Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by dizhn on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @04:02PM (#36143456)

They would be eligible but they can't be useful if their allocation is just 100 requests per minute. That would be like 10 concurrent users tops. Probably even less.

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