Subreddit stats that actually update
Members, posts per day, comments per post, growth history and promo tolerance for any subreddit we track — every number stamped with the moment we captured it. Free, no login.
The subreddit stats alternative that actually updates
If you have gone looking for subreddit analytics recently, you have met the graveyard: sites showing subscriber counts from three years ago, growth charts that flatline on the day the scraper broke, and “posts per day” figures that were never real. It is not negligence. Reddit progressively closed off the unauthenticated access those tools were built on, and in May 2026 the public JSON endpoints started returning 403 to anonymous callers outright. Free scrapers stopped working, and most of them were never fixed.
Prowlo kept crawling because crawling is the product. A residential-proxy stack fetches each tracked community on a rolling schedule and writes a snapshot — subscribers, active users, posts per day, comments per post — so the history you see here is ours, not a one-off scrape. Every figure on every page carries the timestamp it was captured at. If we do not have a number, we say so instead of showing you a stale one.
What you get for each subreddit
- Members — current subscriber count, plus the snapshot history behind it.
- Posts per day and comments per post — whether anyone is actually home, and whether they talk to each other.
- 7- and 30-day growth — each labelled with the real day-span it was measured over.
- Promo tolerance — low, medium or high, so you know whether a product mention will be removed.
- Similar communities — by subject matter and by shared posters.
How to actually use the numbers
Subscriber count is a vanity metric — it only ever goes up, because nobody unsubscribes. Look at posts per day first: it tells you how long a thread stays visible, and therefore whether a considered reply is worth writing. Then comments per post, which separates communities that discuss things from communities that dump links. A subreddit with 80,000 members, six posts a day and eight comments on each is a far better place to be useful than one with two million members and no conversation.
Use growth as a direction check rather than a verdict. Steady positive growth means the community is still recruiting new people, which matters if you plan to be there for a year. A flat or declining count on a busy subreddit is fine — plenty of mature communities are healthy and static. What should worry you is a subreddit that has stopped growing and stopped posting.
Frequently asked questions
How do I check the stats for a subreddit?
Type the name above — with or without the r/ prefix — and you get member count, posts per day, comments per post, 7- and 30-day subscriber growth, a growth chart, promo tolerance and the communities most similar to it. No account needed.
Is this a subredditstats.com alternative?
It is the same job with data that is still being collected. Several long-standing subreddit stats sites stopped updating when Reddit tightened access to its public endpoints — most visibly in May 2026, when unauthenticated JSON requests started returning 403. Prowlo crawls through a residential-proxy stack, so the numbers here carry a real "Updated" timestamp and the growth figures come from our own snapshot history.
How often are the numbers refreshed?
On a rolling schedule, with the communities that get queried and watched most refreshed most often. Every page states exactly when its data was captured rather than implying it is live to the second.
Why do you label growth "≈30d" instead of just "30 days"?
Because tiered refresh means the snapshot nearest the 30-day mark might be 27 or 34 days old. We compare against the closest snapshot we actually have and tell you the real span. Rounding that to a clean "30d" would be a small, constant lie about precision we do not have.
Which subreddits can I look up?
Any community in our active catalog — over 1,200 and growing daily. NSFW, private, banned and unreachable subreddits are excluded by design. If one is missing, adding it as a Watcher on a free account brings it into the crawl.
Can I get this data through an API or my AI agent?
Yes. The same crawl backs Prowlo's MCP server and REST API, so your agent can query subreddit data, search post history semantically and monitor keywords without you opening a browser.