Reddit announced on September 30 that it is retiring RSS feeds and closing public Data API access in phases through March 2027, naming large-scale scraping and automated abuse as the reason. The announcement also says the quiet part out loud: if you follow communities you do not moderate, there is no replacement. Below are the tools that still have a path to following Reddit, the paid data APIs for people who need programmatic access, and the four dates that matter.
See the comparison The four deadlines"Because RSS is now a common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, we'll stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026 while preserving moderation workflows that depend on it through supported alternatives."
"If you use RSS for feeds outside of a community you moderate, there is no replacement."
— Reddit, r/modnews announcement, September 30, 2026
The dividing line is not price, it is architecture. A reader that only consumes real RSS and Atom feeds loses Reddit on November 13. A reader that can watch a web page and build its own feed is the only kind with a route forward — and even then, test your subreddit before the deadline, because Reddit can serve different markup to automated clients.
| Reader | Can it follow Reddit after Nov 13? | Published price | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inoreader Free tier Power-user reader with rules, filters, monitoring feeds and social feeds. | Unconfirmed Inoreader's own blog post on October 1 states that once Reddit stops serving its RSS feeds it will no longer be able to retrieve new posts, and that it cannot confirm an alternative yet. Its "Web feeds & track changes" feature is built for pages without RSS, but the company has not promised it works on Reddit. | Free: 150 subscriptions, search, rules. Pro $7.50/month billed annually, or $9.99/month billed monthly. Programmatic API access is a custom tier only. | Inoreader pricing |
| NewsBlur Free tier Open source (MIT), self-hostable, with trainable filters. Web Feeds pages monitoring on higher tiers. | Depends on tier Plain RSS subscriptions stop with Reddit's feeds. The "Web Feeds" page monitor, available on Premium Archive and above, watches a page for changes without needing a feed — that is the path. Test it on your subreddit before November 13. | Free: 64 sites, real-time RSS, iOS/Android apps. Premium $36/year. Premium Archive $99/year (adds full archive, Ask AI, daily briefing, 4,096 sites). Premium Pro $29/month for 5-minute fetching and 10,000 sites. | NewsBlur pricing |
| BazQux Reader Single-developer, ad-free reader with a follow-any-page feature. | Page monitoring You can enter any web page URL, including a subreddit, and follow it like a blog — this is the mechanism that survives Reddit's RSS shutdown. Same caveat: verify on your own subreddit. | $30/year, paid only, no free tier. 30-day free trial. | BazQux |
| FreshRSS Free Self-hosted, AGPL-3, 1M+ articles and 50k+ feeds in production use. Own your data. | Self-hosted scraping FreshRSS includes a web-scraping module that can generate a feed from a page, and it can consume community bridges such as RSSHub. Nothing a vendor decides can switch it off for you — but you are the one maintaining the scraper when Reddit changes its markup. | Free and open source. You pay only for your own server. | FreshRSS |
| Feedbin Clean reader and sync backend for newsletters, podcasts and YouTube as well as feeds. | No Feedbin follows real RSS/Atom feeds only. There is no page monitor, so Reddit content stops when Reddit's feeds do. | 30-day free trial, then $7/month or $70/year. | Feedbin pricing |
| Readwise Reader Reader plus highlights, PDFs, EPUBs, newsletters and an AI assistant. | No RSS subscriptions only, no page monitoring. Reddit follows the same rule as Feedbin. | 30-day free trial, then $9.99/month billed annually for Readwise Full, which includes Reader. Student discount 50%. | Readwise pricing |
| NetNewsWire Free Native Mac, iPhone and iPad client, MIT licensed, ad-free. | Depends on backend NetNewsWire is a client: it syncs with Feedbin, Feedly, BazQux, Inoreader, NewsBlur, The Old Reader or FreshRSS. Whether you keep Reddit depends entirely on the backend you point it at. | Free and open source. No account of its own required. | NetNewsWire |
Prices read from each vendor's own site on 2026-10-04: inoreader.com/pricing, newsblur.com, bazqux.com, freshrss.org, feedbin.com, readwise.io/pricing, netnewswire.com. The Inoreader position is quoted from their 2026-10-01 blog post about the Reddit change. None of these readers has published a confirmed Reddit workaround, which is why every "can it follow Reddit" answer above is about capability rather than a promise.
This is the half of the change that costs money. Registered apps keep API access, but new public access applications stop October 31, 2026 and the remaining public API ends by March 2027 — so teams that built on the free path are now shopping. Rates below are as published, and they are not comparable to each other: per call, per record, per compute unit and per credit all mean different things.
| Service | Best for | Published price | |
|---|---|---|---|
| RedditAPI Free credits Pay-per-call hosted Reddit API, 59 endpoints, no OAuth or app review. | Teams that want reads, writes, votes and DMs over plain REST without clearing Reddit's app review | Reads $0.002 per call, votes $0.005, writes $0.012, DMs $0.025. No subscription or minimum. New accounts get $0.50 in free credits; smallest top-up is $10, which covers up to 5,000 reads. Credits do not expire. It also runs a public affiliate program (20% lifetime commission, capped at $5,000 per year), which is disclosed here because links on this page may use it. | RedditAPI pricing |
| Apify Free tier Managed scraping platform with ready-made Reddit actors you can schedule from a UI. | Non-developers who would rather configure an actor than write a client | Free plan $0 with $5 of monthly usage credit, no card. Starter $19/month, Scale $199/month, both including their monthly credit; compute is $0.20 per compute unit on Free and Starter. Actor usage is billed separately and varies by author, so check the specific actor's page before you commit. | Apify pricing |
| F5Bot Free tier Keyword alerting across Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters. Not an API — an alerting tool. | Founders and marketers who want to know the moment a brand or keyword is mentioned | Free forever: 5 keywords, email alerts, basic filters. Silver $9.99/month (20 keywords) or $109/year. Gold $49.99/month (200 keywords, RSS and JSON feeds, AI filtering, Slack and Discord) or $549/year. Platinum $214.99/month (API and webhooks) or $2,364/year. Diamond from $500/month. AI filtering includes the first $10/month of token usage. | F5Bot tiers |
| Data365 Multi-network social data API covering Reddit alongside X, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. | Brands monitoring several networks through one schema and one contract | EUR 300/month for one network with 500,000 credits per month; EUR 850/month for three networks with 1,000,000 credits. Custom above that, up to 7 networks. Credit values: 1 post = 1 credit, post with comments = 5, search request = 7, profile = 9. 14-day trial on request. | Data365 pricing |
| Arctic Shift Free Community-run archival Reddit database, the best-known successor to Pushshift. | Researchers and students pulling historical posts and comments | Free to use and independent of Reddit's API — it runs its own database. Volunteer-maintained and rate-limited, with bulk dumps for very large historical pulls. No uptime guarantee, so do not build a production product on it. | Arctic Shift |
| PRAW The standard Python wrapper for Reddit's own API — a client, not an alternative data source. | Python developers who already have credentials for a registered app | Free and open source, but it still calls Reddit's Data API, so it inherits every deadline above. Useful if you are in Reddit's migration program; useless as a way around it. | PRAW docs |
Prices read from vendor pages on 2026-10-04: redditapis.com/pricing and redditapis.com/affiliates, apify.com/pricing, f5bot.com/tiers, data365.co/pricing, arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com, praw.readthedocs.io. Nothing here overrides Reddit's Developer Terms — automating access to Reddit data is governed by your agreement with Reddit, not by which vendor you buy from.
Reddit made one exception in the announcement, and it only covers moderation workflows.
Reddit published these on September 30, 2026. The one people miss is October 31: after that date there is no new public API access to apply for, so anyone planning to build something new is already too late for the free path.
Reddit's own announcement, published September 30, 2026, says it stops supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026. Everything Reddit serves today through .rss URLs and feed endpoints stops being updated from that date. The public Data API closes in phases through March 2027, and no new public access applications are accepted after October 31, 2026.
For subreddits you moderate, yes: Reddit recommends Devvit apps such as Discord Relay to replace alert workflows moderators built on RSS. For anything else, no. Reddit's announcement states plainly that if you use RSS for feeds outside of a community you moderate, there is no replacement.
Not for Reddit, unless your reader monitors a web page instead of subscribing to a feed. Readers that only consume real RSS and Atom feeds lose Reddit the day Reddit stops serving it — Inoreader has stated publicly that once Reddit stops serving its RSS feeds it will no longer be able to retrieve new posts, and that it cannot confirm an alternative yet. Readers with page monitoring (NewsBlur's Web Feeds, BazQux's follow-a-page, self-hosted FreshRSS) are the ones with a path forward, and even there you should test your specific subreddit before November 13.
That is what self-hosted tools do: FreshRSS ships a web-scraping module that can turn a page into a feed, and community bridges like RSSHub generate feeds for sites that do not publish one. The catch is Reddit's terms — Reddit names large-scale scraping and automated abuse as the reason RSS is going away, so treat any scraping approach as something that can break or be blocked at any time, and read Reddit's Developer Terms before you rely on it.
Registered ones do. Reddit says that from January 12, 2027 it begins removing API access for apps and users that have not registered or engaged with it, and that remaining public API access ends by March 2027. It also launched a $1 million App Migration Program that pays selected developers $1,000 to move eligible Data API apps onto the Developer Platform, judged partly on community impact.
The published rates vary by two orders of magnitude. RedditAPI is pay-per-call from $0.002 per read with $0.50 in free credits and no app review. Apify charges a subscription of $0 to $199 per month plus usage, with Reddit actors billed per delivered result. Data365 starts at EUR 300 per month for one network. Anyone collecting at volume should price the specific job rather than the headline number, because per-call, per-record and per-credit rates are not comparable.
F5Bot is free for 5 keywords with email alerts across Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters, and its paid tiers run $9.99/month for 20 keywords up to $214.99/month when you need API access and webhooks. If a handful of keywords is your need, the free tier is genuinely enough and the upgrade buys volume rather than capability.
Because only some publish a price. Every figure on this page comes from the vendor's own pricing page on October 4, 2026. Tools that are free and open source, or that quote only through sales, are listed with their model instead of an invented number.