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>>robbie+(OP)
> 50 million requests costs $12,000

I've never worked on a web platform like Reddit, nor with any per-request priced APIs. Reddit's charge of $0.00024 per request still looks like it is _significantly_ above what their own costs are.

Wasn't Reddit's pay-for-API-access announcement originally phrased as a desire to claw back some of the value that LLMs have found in Reddit data? I don't understand how per-request API pricing actually accomplishes that. (I was vaguely anticipating Reddit's API pricing to have some sort of expensive "firehose" endpoint for OpenAI/Google/Meta/etc to pull from.)

It looks like they're instead going to squeeze out all third-party apps instead. I don't think this bodes well for Reddit's future.

>>ccooff+g8
Their pricing likely includes the cost of potential ad revenue that an API call is displacing. There's no easy way to integrate ads into an API, so they just offload the advertising/monetization problem to whoever buys the content.

>>kenhwa+je
Couldn't they just return ads from the API? Any apps that don't show them would have their API access revoked.