This is the best summary I could come up with:

Reddit’s new usage-based API pricing is now in effect, and while the potential costs forced many third-party apps to shut down, a handful of apps are pivoting to paid subscriptions to help pay for Reddit’s API fees.

“Reddit is now charging a substantial fee to use the API to power Narwhal,” det0ur wrote.

The only goal of this subscription is to cover the costs of using the API.” The monthly fee is set to come into effect in a week or two.

Users won’t be able to buy a lifetime unlock because “the API has a monthly cost to Narwhal,” det0ur says.

Although det0ur is considering a way to pay annually, “for now, we are a bit worried about Reddit increasing the price of the API.

“Let’s be real, the 2003-esque cell phone plan with monitored usage just isn’t great,” det0ur said in the post.

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