Pricing
Credit packs that never expire. One credit is one page of Reddit, and failed requests are free.
threadapi sells credit packs. There is no subscription: packs add to one balance and never expire.
| Pack | Credits | Per 1,000 | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free, on sign-up | 200 | 1 request per second, 100 per day | |
| $9 | 3,000 | $3.00 | 300 per minute |
| $29 | 15,000 | $1.93 | 600 per minute |
| $79 | 80,000 | $0.99 | 1,000 per minute |
Buy packs in the billing dashboard. Over 80,000 a month, ask about volume pricing.
What a request costs
One credit is one page of Reddit:
| Request | Credits |
|---|---|
| Post with up to 500 comments | 1 |
| Each further 100 comments, or part of 100 | 1 |
| Any listing page, up to 100 items: subreddit posts or comments, search, user posts or comments, subreddits, duplicates | 1 |
| Comment search, one page | 1 |
| Things, up to 100 posts and comments | 1 |
| Subreddit about or User | 1 |
| A running monitor, per day | 10 |
| Monitor matches, webhook deliveries, and managing monitors | 0 |
| Any failed request | 0 |
- A post request asks for 200 comments unless you set
max_comments, so it costs 1 credit.max_comments=1000costs at most 6. - You pay for the comments a response returns, not for the requests threadapi makes to produce it. Retries on our side are never billed.
- A response served from cache costs the same as a fresh one.
- If your balance covers fewer pages than you asked for, you get what it covers and
meta.limited_by_balanceistrue. The balance never goes below zero. - MCP tool calls cost the same as the routes they call. The playground in the dashboard is billed like a key.
X-Credits-Usedon every successful response says what it cost; the logs list each request.
Monitors
A monitor charges 10 credits when you create or resume it, then 10 every 24 hours while it runs. Pausing or deleting it stops the charges. When a renewal finds less than 10 credits, the monitor stops until you add credits and resume it.
How many monitors you can run depends on the largest pack you've bought:
| Monitors | Matches per monitor per day | |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 1 | 200 |
| $9 pack | 10 | 1,000 |
| $29 pack | 50 | 1,000 |
| $79 pack | 100 | 1,000 |
Low-balance emails say how many days your running monitors have left.
Refunds
Within 14 days of buying a pack, if none of its credits were used. Email hello@threadapi.dev.