There was no deal. A few days ago, Apollo’s developer, Christian Selig, ruled that the service was likely to stop working due to the cost Reddit was charging for the use of the updated API to third parties, and he finally confirmed it. Apollo will shut down permanently

According to Selig, Reddit’s new policies require Apollo to pay $12,000 for every 50 million requests. Since Apollo processes approximately 7 billion requests per month, this translates to $1.7 million per month or $20 million per year for Apollo API access. Seling’s response was clear: “I do not have that much money.”

Apollo bids farewell in June

Selig at one point wished that the negotiations would take another path, but this did not happen. And in the last post on Reddit Announced the closing date of the popular app for iPhone and iPad.

Apolo will close on June 30. Unfortunately, Reddit’s recent decisions and actions have made it impossible for Apollo to continue. Thank you so much for all your support over the years.

In the article published on Reddit, Christian explains why raising the cost of accessing Apollo is also not an option.

Suddenly incurring huge costs from a free API for 8 years is not something you can get up and running in just 30 days. That’s a lot of users to migrate, plans to build, a lot of testing and reviewing the app, and it’s just not economically feasible. It’s much cheaper for me to turn it off.

From this decision Apollo will lose access to the Reddit API on June 30 to ensure no costs are incurredUnder the new Reddit policy and with it, the app will no longer be able to access Reddit content.

As Selig himself explains, he decided to create something after an internship at Apple. A Reddit app that feels like iOS and is “powerful and fun to use.”

After 2 years of development and beta work, working closely with several thousand Reddit users to help him become the perfect client, I released him in October 2017… The reception was really great.

But similar to Twitter’s decision when it limited its API to third parties, it marked the end of what started as a personal project eight years ago.