Best Reddit scrapers on Apify, priced and rated
This page narrows the best Apify Actors comparison to Reddit alone. Five Reddit Actors on the Apify Store are worth comparing, and the most popular one is the most expensive. Reddit Scraper Lite charges $4.00/1,000 results subject to change · verified 2026-09-09 at entry level. Reddit Scraper Enterprise Grade charges $1.49/1,000 results subject to change · verified 2026-09-09 for the same job. Both read public Reddit without a login.
Every number on this page was read on 9 September 2026 from Apify's own API (api.apify.com/v2/acts/...) and from the Store listings themselves, not from a vendor blog post. Where Apify's two published sources disagree, this page says so instead of picking one.
What does each Apify Reddit scraper cost per 1,000 results?
| Actor | Entry price / 1,000 | Top-tier price | Runs succeeded | Users (total / 30d) | Rating | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reddit Scraper Enterprise Grade | $1.49 | $1.19 | 100.0% | 26,242 / 1,635 | 4.47 | Live |
| Reddit Scraper (Harsh Maur) | $2.00 | $1.50 | 99.2% | 12,794 / 3,457 | 4.48 | Live |
| ParseForge Reddit Scraper | $3.38 posts, $1.80 comments | $3.00 / $1.63 | 88.6% | 1,548 / 133 | 5.00 (3 reviews) | Live |
| Reddit Scraper Lite | $4.00 | $3.40 | 95.8% | 41,850 / 7,469 | 4.57 | Live |
| Reddit Scraper (Trudax) | $45/month rental | n/a | 99.8% | 14,319 / 135 | 2.64 | Deprecated, reprices 21 Sep 2026 |
Prices, user counts, ratings and success rates come from each Actor's Store listing and API record, read 2026-09-09. Three of the five add a start charge on top of the per-result price: $0.02 per GB of run memory on Reddit Scraper Lite and on Harsh Maur's Actor, $0.054 per GB on ParseForge's. Fatih Tahta's charges nothing on start. On a weekly schedule those start fees round to under a dollar a month, so they change the ranking only for very small jobs.
ParseForge is the odd one out because it prices comments separately from posts, and cheaper. That helps on comment-heavy work and hurts on post-heavy work. It also bills extra events for keyword searches ($0.009 each), sentiment scoring, author profiles and media downloads, so read its Pricing tab before you schedule anything.
Why is the Store price lower than the price you get charged?
The "from $3.40 / 1,000" headline on a Store listing is not the price a new account pays. It is the discounted rate. Apify's own documentation states that "each Apify subscription plan includes a discount tier (BRONZE, SILVER, GOLD) that provides access to increasingly lower prices on selected Actors" (docs.apify.com, read 2026-09-09).
The gap is real money. Reddit Scraper Lite's event price is $0.004 per result at the entry tier and $0.0034 at the top three tiers. That is $4.00 versus $3.40 per 1,000, an 18% spread on the same Actor doing the same work. Both figures sit in the same API record; only the lower one reaches the listing headline. Budget with the entry number until your plan actually earns the discount, and see how pay-per-event billing works for the mechanics.
What does a "95.8% runs succeeded" badge actually count?
It counts fewer runs than you would assume. Reddit Scraper Lite's Store listing reports 95.8% runs succeeded. Its API record for the 30 days to 2026-09-09 reports 398,605 public runs, of which 348,830 succeeded. That is 87.5%.
Both numbers are Apify's. They differ because the badge drops aborted and timed-out runs from the denominator: 348,830 successes against the 364,153 runs that neither timed out nor were aborted comes to 95.79%, which is the badge. The same reconstruction reproduces the badge for all five Actors on this page to within a rounding step, so this is how the metric is built, not a one-off.
What that hides is the failure mode you would most want to know about. In those 30 days Reddit Scraper Lite timed out on 27,341 runs, 6.9% of everything it ran, against 15,323 hard failures. Timeouts are its dominant failure, and a timed-out run has already stored results you have already been charged for. Apify's documentation does not state whether events fired before a timeout are refunded, so assume they are not: set a maximum cost per run, which Apify honours ("you are never charged for produced events over the defined limit"), and keep maxItems low enough that a run finishes.
By the same reconstruction, Fatih Tahta's Actor timed out on 102 of 76,212 runs and hard-failed on 35. Harsh Maur's failed on 1,051 of 141,315. Those are the two most reliable live Actors here by a wide margin, and they are also the two cheapest.
What does a real Reddit monitoring job cost per month?
A workload with numbers you can check against your own plan. Monitor 10 subreddits, pull the top 500 posts from each once a week, then pull 50 comments from the 200 highest-scoring posts each week:
- Posts: 10 subreddits x 500 posts x 4 weeks = 20,000 posts/month
- Comments: 200 posts x 50 comments x 4 weeks = 40,000 comments/month
- Runs: two scheduled jobs, weekly, 4 GB each = 32 actor-start GB events
| Actor | Entry-tier monthly cost | Top-tier monthly cost |
|---|---|---|
| Reddit Scraper Enterprise Grade | $89.40 | $71.40 |
| Reddit Scraper (Harsh Maur) | $120.64 | $90.64 |
| ParseForge Reddit Scraper | $141.33 | $126.74 |
| Reddit Scraper Lite | $240.64 | $204.64 |
Same 60,000 results, and the default choice costs 2.7x the cheapest one.
Now the multiplier that wrecks budgets. Pull the full comment tree instead of 50 comments, at a conservative 200 comments per post, and you are asking for 4,000,000 comment results a month. On Reddit Scraper Lite that is $16,000. On Fatih Tahta's it is $5,960. Neither is a number you meant to spend. Cap comments per post, or pull full trees only for threads above a score threshold.
For scale planning, Apify's two published concurrency limits disagree: apify.com/pricing lists 5 concurrent runs on the Free plan, while docs.apify.com/platform/limits lists 25 for Free and 32 for Starter (both read 2026-09-09). Design your schedule for 5 and nothing surprises you.
One more piece of arithmetic worth doing before you pay anything. The Free plan includes $5 of platform usage a month (apify.com/pricing, 2026-09-09). At Reddit Scraper Lite's entry rate that buys about 1,250 results; at Fatih Tahta's, about 3,355. If you need a few hundred threads a month for research, you do not need a paid plan at all. If you need 60,000, the $19 Starter plan's $19 of included usage will not cover the job either, so read Apify's plan pricing before committing to a schedule.
Which Reddit Actors are deprecated or about to reprice?
One, and it matters because it used to be the standard high-volume recommendation.
Reddit Scraper by Trudax is deprecated. Its own Store page title renders as "Reddit Scraper [DEPRECATED]" and the page carries a Deprecated badge; the API record returns isDeprecated: true (both read 2026-09-09). It still bills $45/month as a flat rental, in force since February 2022, and it still posts a 99.8% success badge across 183,009 runs in the last 30 days. But only 135 people used it in those 30 days, against 14,319 all time, and its rating is 2.64.
On 21 September 2026 it converts to pay-per-event at $0.0001 per result, which is $0.10 per 1,000. The developer's change note in Apify's API record explains why: "Apify is deprecating rental pricing, so Reddit Scraper is shifting to pay-per-event to keep costs aligned. The Actor will be unlisted, but existing users retain full access."
That is not one developer's decision. Apify's own documentation says the platform is "sunsetting the rental pricing model", with "April 1 - You can no longer publish new rental Actors or change pricing on existing ones" and "October 1 - Rental Actors are fully retired. All remaining Actors are migrated to pay-per-usage pricing" (docs.apify.com, read 2026-09-09).
So $0.10 per 1,000 is genuinely the cheapest Reddit data on the platform, and it is still the wrong thing to build on. The Actor is deprecated, it is being unlisted, and its maintainer has said as much. Any "rent it above 15,000 results a month" break-even that you read on this page before today, or on anyone else's, expires on 21 September 2026.
Which one should you pick?
- Default, and the cheapest by a clear margin: Reddit Scraper Enterprise Grade. $1.49 per 1,000, no start charge, posts and full comment threads from searches, subreddits, user pages and post URLs, and the best failure record of the five (35 hard failures in 76,212 runs).
- If you want AI enrichment inside the run: Reddit Scraper by Harsh Maur. $2.00 per 1,000, plus $0.0005 per item for optional sentiment, intent, entity and category scoring. Cheaper than piping the dataset into your own model for small volumes, and it has the highest 30-day active-user count of the two cheap Actors.
- If your job is comment-heavy and post-light: ParseForge at $1.80 per 1,000 comments. Its 88.6% success badge is the weakest here and its rating rests on 3 reviews, so run a paid test before scheduling it.
- If you are already on Reddit Scraper Lite and it works: staying costs you roughly double. That is a defensible trade for a build you have already validated, and a bad one for a new project.
- Skip Apify entirely if the contract matters more than the cost. Scraping public pages gives you no licence to the data. If you are training a model, reselling the output, or shipping something a legal team will review, a negotiated data agreement with Reddit is the instrument for that, not any Actor on this page. See when Apify is and is not the legal answer.
What comes back, and what does not
All four live Actors read public Reddit without a login or an API key, and return the same core shape: post id, title, permalink, author, subreddit, timestamp, score, upvote ratio, comment count, flair, self-post body, and media URLs. Comment records carry the body, author, score, timestamp, parent id and thread depth. User and community records carry karma, account age, subscriber counts and public rules.
Out of reach for every public-web scraper, whatever it costs: private and quarantined subreddits, anything gated behind a login, deleted content ([deleted] and [removed] are what Reddit serves publicly, so that is what you get), and exact vote counts, which Reddit fuzzes on purpose.
Can you just use Reddit's official API instead?
Possibly, and this page will not pretend to know the terms. Reddit's own developer documentation at support.reddithelp.com returned HTTP 403 to every fetch attempt on 9 September 2026, so the rate limits, the free-tier caps and the commercial pricing that circulate on third-party blogs are not verifiable from the source right now. Earlier versions of this page repeated a widely-quoted per-minute cap and a widely-quoted seven-figure invoice; both are gone, because neither could be traced to Reddit.
What is checkable is the shape of the alternative. Apify's Actors read the public web, so there is no API key, no OAuth client and no negotiated agreement, and you pay per result rather than per call. What you give up is a licence, a rate-limit guarantee and a support contract. If you need any of those, go to Reddit directly and read their terms yourself.
What changed on this page on 9 September 2026
This page was rebuilt, not refreshed. Specifically:
- Removed "Reddit Scraper by Apify". There is no first-party Apify Reddit scraper.
api.apify.com/v2/acts/apify~reddit-scraperreturns a 404record-not-found, andapify.com/apify/reddit-scraper308-redirects to Trudax's Reddit Scraper Lite. The previous version listed it as a separate product with its own rating and user count. It never was one. - Removed the rental break-even. The old advice to rent Trudax's Reddit Scraper above roughly 15,000 results a month is void: that Actor is deprecated and reprices on 21 September 2026.
- Added two Actors that were not on the previous version and undercut everything that was.
- Cut the Reddit API pricing claims that could not be verified at Reddit's own source, as above.
- Corrected the legal answer in the FAQ below. The previous wording overstated what hiQ v. LinkedIn decided.
- Replaced every user count and rating. The previous figures dated from 26 May 2026 and had drifted by as much as 40x.
Search the Apify Store for a Reddit Actor
Check the entry-tier price on the Pricing tab, not the 'from' headline on the card.
Ready to run one? Create a free Apify account and start with the step-by-step Reddit walkthrough. The free plan's $5 of monthly usage is enough to test any Actor here on a few hundred results before you schedule anything, which is the only way to find out whether its success badge holds on your inputs.
Reddit Scraper Enterprise Grade by Fatih Tahta, at $1.49 per 1,000 results for an entry-tier account and $1.19 at the top discount tier, with no actor-start charge (Apify Store listing and API record, read 2026-09-09). Harsh Maur's Reddit Scraper is next at $2.00 per 1,000. The most-installed Actor, Reddit Scraper Lite, is the most expensive of the live options at $4.00 per 1,000.
The 'from $X / 1,000' figure on a Store card is the discounted rate. Apify's documentation states that each subscription plan includes a discount tier (BRONZE, SILVER, GOLD) giving lower prices on participating Actors, so a new or free account pays the higher entry-tier number. On Reddit Scraper Lite the spread is $4.00 versus $3.40 per 1,000. Some Actors also add a per-GB charge when the run starts.
No. That Actor is marked deprecated on its own Store page and in Apify's API, and on 21 September 2026 the $45 rental converts to pay-per-event at $0.10 per 1,000 results, after which it will be unlisted. Apify is retiring the rental model platform-wide: no new rental Actors since 1 April 2026, and full retirement on 1 October 2026 per Apify's monetization docs.
No, for public subreddits, posts, comments and user profiles. All four live Actors here describe themselves on their Store listings as running without a login or an API key. Private subreddits, quarantined communities, age-gated content and anything behind a login are out of reach for any public-web scraper.
Yes, on all four live Actors. Raise the comment depth or limit in the Actor's input. Two warnings: threads with tens of thousands of comments are paginated behind 'load more' stubs and usually need splitting across runs, and comments are billed per result, so a 200-comment average across 20,000 posts is four million billable records.
US case law on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act has been read as narrowing one federal claim against scraping public pages (hiQ v. LinkedIn, 9th Circuit 2022, at the preliminary-injunction stage), but it does not make scraping lawful in general. Reddit's Terms of Service still prohibit automated collection, and personal data triggers GDPR and CCPA obligations depending on jurisdiction and downstream use. Consult counsel for anything commercial or ML-training-related.
Common mistakes and fixes
The run finished but the Store says the Actor succeeds 95%+ of the time.
Apify's 'runs succeeded' percentage excludes aborted and timed-out runs from its denominator. Reddit Scraper Lite timed out on 27,341 of its 398,605 public runs in the 30 days to 2026-09-09 (api.apify.com/v2/acts/trudax~reddit-scraper-lite). Raise the run timeout, lower maxItems per run, and split large subreddits across scheduled runs.
The bill is higher than the price on the Store listing.
The 'from $X' figure on a Store listing is the discounted rate for higher subscription tiers. Apify's docs state that each plan includes a discount tier (BRONZE, SILVER, GOLD) with lower prices on participating Actors. Read the entry-tier number from the Actor's Pricing tab before you budget.
Fewer comments than the live thread shows.
Deep threads are paginated behind 'load more' and 'continue this thread' stubs. Raise the comment depth or limit in the Actor's input, and split threads with tens of thousands of comments across several runs. Deleted and removed comments come back as [deleted] and [removed] because Reddit does not serve the original text publicly.