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by shagie 1098 days ago
The under $200/month isn't a rate that anyone else can get.

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

The two plans there are $500/month for 7.5M requests and $10k/month for 150M requests.
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Paul-Craft 1098 days ago
> The under $200/month isn't a rate that anyone else can get.

Sounds to me like that rate might be Imgur saying "we welcome your business," rather than "fuck off."

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shagie 1098 days ago
Eight years ago, it was a "we welcome your business" with a "free heavy usage"

https://web.archive.org/web/20150320234625/https://api.imgur...

In 2019, https://web.archive.org/web/20191002234012/https://rapidapi....

I suspect its an older rate that he got and was able to lock in for a while.

The current rate is about $0.07/1000.

If $0.24/1000 is a "fuck off" rate, then Imgur is less than an order of magnitude more friendly to new developers. Imgur's price 4 years ago was $4k for 150M requests.

Reddits pricing is mostly in line with similar social network API pricing (Twitter is still an outlier).

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