[bcrack]

I infer it was aggressive, based on the following:

Per Christian (the Apollo app dev): "(...) Twitter's pricing was publicly ridiculed for its obscene price of $42,000 for 50 million tweets. Reddit's is still $12,000. For reference, I pay Imgur (a site similar to Reddit in user base and media) $166 for the same 50 million API calls." [1]

All assuming he is not lying (which I have no reason to believe, contrary to the reddit reps). Two orders of magnitude over Imgur pricing sounds a bit greedy, unless Imgur is also at the verge of collapse, which I'm not aware of.

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca...

[shagie]

> I pay Imgur (a site similar to Reddit in user base and media) $166 for the same 50 million API calls.

He's got a sweetheart deal.

https://api.imgur.com/#commercial takes us to https://rapidapi.com/imgur/api/imgur-9/pricing

There is no $166 plan. The least expensive $500/month plan is "only" 7.5M requests per month.

50M requests under the ultra plan (7.5M requests and then $0.001 for each one after) would cost $43k/month - and it would be more sensible to go to the "mega" plan then which is $10k/month for 150M API calls.

[satvikpendem]

Yes, imgur also does not make any profit. Soon you will see imgur also raising prices, they simply have enough VC to not need to resort to that yet.