• Artistan@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Most of the 3PA devs has already said, they are not against paying for API usage, as long as it’s a reasonable price. The pricing Reddit wants is definitely to kill 3PA.

    • Trizza Tethis@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Yeah the calculation made by users, based on Reddit’s general estimates, was around $7.50 per user per month. In this case, a $10 per month subscription for every user would likely fully cover the API costs.

      Judging by the “$20 million a year” calculation the Apollo dev made, Reddit’s charging around $1,666,666.66 per month.

      Any 3PA would need over 222k users a month (with average-to-heavy usage) to justify that price. Ain’t no way any single 3PA has that many users.