Reddit Metrics Is Gone. Here Is What Does Its Job Now.
redditmetrics.com stopped collecting data in early 2018, and today the domain doesn't even resolve. FreeSubStats tracks subscriber growth across more than 13,800 subreddits with daily scans, free and without an account.
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Where Did Reddit Metrics Go?
Reddit Metrics was the original subreddit growth tracker. From around 2011 it charted daily subscriber counts, ranked communities by growth, and logged milestones — the template every tracker since has copied. Then it quietly decayed. Users reported lagging data through 2016 and 2017, larger subreddits' charts stopped around March 4, 2018, and its companion bot for r/TrendingReddits went silent. It was never revived. As of July 2026 the domain returns nothing at all.
The archive had an afterlife. Subreddit Stats absorbed part of the old Reddit Metrics dataset — its API responses still carry a harvestedOldRedditMetricsData flag — which made it the place to see long-run history. Then the same thing happened again: Reddit's July 2023 API pricing froze Subreddit Stats' collection too. Two generations of trackers, both stalled. FreeSubStats is the third, built to survive the constraint that killed them: efficient daily scanning through the official API instead of unbounded scraping.
One honest note: if you need a raw redditmetrics-style ranking across millions of subreddits rather than a curated set, FrontPageMetrics is the closest like-for-like successor. FreeSubStats tracks a smaller universe (13,800+ communities, with open submissions) but adds what Reddit Metrics never had: topic browsing, custom lists, and growth rankings you can filter.
FreeSubStats vs. Reddit Metrics
This scorecard is lopsided for one reason: the left column describes a site that no longer exists. Reddit Metrics earned its place as the pioneer, and its 2011–2018 archive would still be valuable if you could reach it.
Why Subreddit Trackers Keep Dying
Reddit Metrics died of neglect, but everything after it died of economics. Reddit's July 2023 API pricing (about $0.24 per 1,000 calls at commercial volume) froze Subreddit Stats and forced GummySearch — a profitable business with 10,000+ paying customers — to shut down in November 2025. Then in September 2025 Reddit removed subscriber totals from community pages, replacing them with 7-day Visitors and Contributions figures.
The result is that subscriber counts, the one metric with fifteen years of continuity, are now visible only through the API. A tracker that scans efficiently within the official limits can still publish them; everything else is gone or frozen. That constraint shapes what FreeSubStats is: a bounded, curated set of communities scanned every day, rather than an attempt to mirror all of Reddit.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Reddit Metrics still available?
No. Data collection ended around March 2018, and the domain no longer resolves at all.
Can I still see a subreddit's pre-2018 growth history?
Partially, through Wayback Machine snapshots of individual Reddit Metrics pages — coverage is incomplete, and Reddit restricted new archiving in 2025. Part of the dataset also survives inside Subreddit Stats, though that site's own collection froze in 2023.
What is the closest replacement?
FrontPageMetrics for a raw ranking of millions of subreddits. FreeSubStats for daily growth tracking, topic discovery, and custom lists across a curated 13,800+ communities.
Is FreeSubStats free like Reddit Metrics was?
Yes. Stats, topics, and growth rankings need no account. Signing in with Reddit is only required to create and share custom lists.
Pick Up Where Reddit Metrics Left Off
Growth rankings, subscriber charts, and community discovery — the same job, with data from today instead of 2018.