Eight years ago, it was a "we welcome your business" with a "free heavy usage" https://web.archive.org/web/20150320234625/https://api.imgur.com/#freeusage http

Eight years ago, it was a "we welcome your business" with a "free heavy usage" https://web.archive.org/web/20150320234625/https://api.imgur.com/#freeusage https://web.archive.org/web/20150320234625/https://api.imgur... In 2019, https://web.archive.org/web/20191002234012/https://rapidapi.com/imgur/api/imgur-9/pricing?utm_source=mashape&utm_medium=301 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).