The developer Relay for Reddit, of one of many remaining third-party Reddit apps for Android, detailed the potential costs for deliberate subscriptions for the app in a brand new publish on Thursday. The prices of a subscription will go up based mostly on a consumer’s every day common variety of API calls, basically which means that the extra issues an individual does within the app, the extra they could need to pay.
In July, Reddit formally transitioned from a free to a paid API, which means that builders must pay the corporate for accessing Reddit’s knowledge for his or her apps. The change pressured many fashionable apps to close down, however a handful of builders, together with the one who makes Relay for Reddit, stated they could be capable to proceed making their apps in the event that they charged a month-to-month payment.
The proposed subscription costs for Relay are between $1 and $5 per thirty days. Right here is the total checklist, from developer DBrady’s publish, which seems to incorporate Google’s take of the subscription and Relay’s anticipated revenues:
$1 – common 45 calls per day, covers ~45% of customers (Google: $.15 / minimal of $.52 to Relay)
$2 – common 100 API calls per day, covers ~80% of customers (Google: $.30 / minimal of $.97 to Relay)
$3 – common 200 API calls per day, covers ~95% of customers (Google: $.45 / minimal of $1.09 to Relay)
$5 – limitless API calls per day, covers ~99.8% of customers profitably (i’ll doubtless carry a small loss on the remaining .2% of customers however that ought to be negligible if sufficient customers enroll).
Within the latest launch of Relay, DBrady says additionally they added the flexibility for customers to see their common every day API calls. DBrady is encouraging folks to share their utilization stats and weigh in on the potential costs. DBrady added that the app will stay free “for the following few weeks,” so should you don’t need to pay to make use of the app, you’ll have slightly little bit of time till you’re required to.
Final week, the developer of Now for Reddit additionally gave an replace on their plans for a future subscription. The plan is for a subscription to roll out in two or three weeks from the time of their publish and so they anticipate to cost a month-to-month price of $3 or $4. “This gained’t cowl the price of ‘tremendous customers’ who use the app all day, however, on common, it ought to enable me to pay the Reddit API invoice,” the developer said.
Many subreddits and customers protested in opposition to the change to the paid API in-party due to its impact on the third-party app ecosystem. Greater than 8,000 subreddits went darkish on the peak of the protests in mid-June, however at this level, just a few underneath 1,800 are nonetheless non-public or restricted, according to the Reddark tracker, and the overwhelming majority of the most important subreddits are working as regular. Customers additionally took out their frustrations at Reddit and CEO Steve Huffman on the collaborative r/Place canvas.
