TLDR
Reddit Premium costs $6/month ($50/year) and removes ads, gives you monthly coins for awards, and access to r/lounge. It does not verify accounts, reduce bot activity, or change the fundamental social experience. Reddit's bot problem is well-documented and growing. Truliv costs $9/month and verifies every account is a real human. Reddit Premium removes ads from a bot-filled platform; Truliv removes bots from a social platform.
Reddit Premium
$6/monthper month
Truliv
$9–$19/mo$9/mo after you pick a plan
Reddit Premium Pricing Tiers
| Reddit Free | Reddit Premium | Truliv ($9/mo) | Truliv Pro ($19/mo) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 | $6/month | $9/month | $19/month |
| Ad-free | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Identity verification | None | None | Liveness check | Liveness check |
| Bot protection | None | None | Structural | Structural |
| Content discovery | Algorithmic + subreddits | Same (no ads) | Verified community | Verified + Pro features |
| What you pay for | Free (ad-supported) | Ad removal + cosmetics | Verified humans + ad-free | Everything + Pro features |
What you don't get with Reddit Premium
- ⚠ No identity verification at any tier
- ⚠ Bot and spam account prevalence unchanged with Premium
- ⚠ Subreddit moderation quality unaffected by your subscription
- ⚠ r/lounge has limited activity and value
What Reddit Premium Is
Reddit Premium is a $6/month subscription that removes ads and adds cosmetic features. You get monthly coins for giving awards, access to r/lounge (a premium-only subreddit), and visual upgrades to your avatar and comments.
The core Reddit experience, browsing subreddits, posting, commenting, and voting, is the same whether you pay or not. Premium removes the ads that interrupt that experience.
Reddit’s Bot Problem Is Not a Premium Problem
Reddit has a well-documented bot problem. Automated accounts post content, leave comments, and manipulate voting across popular subreddits. AI-generated comments are increasingly difficult to distinguish from human-written ones.
Reddit Premium does not address this. A Premium subscriber sees the same bot comments, the same manipulated threads, and the same AI-generated content as a free user. They just see it without banner ads in between.
This is not a criticism of the $6 price point. It is an observation about what the subscription does and does not include. If bots are not your concern, Premium is a reasonable ad-removal subscription. If bots are your concern, Premium changes nothing.
Reddit Premium vs Truliv: The Structural Difference
Reddit Premium removes ads from an open platform where anyone can create unlimited anonymous accounts. The social experience is unchanged.
Truliv charges $9/month for a platform where every account has been verified as a real human through a liveness check. There are no ads because the subscription replaces ad revenue. There are no bots because accounts that cannot pass a liveness check cannot be created.
The difference is what the subscription pays for. Reddit Premium pays for cosmetic improvements to your experience on a platform with structural trust problems. Truliv’s subscription pays for a platform where the structural trust problem is addressed at signup.
Is Ad Removal Enough?
If your problem with Reddit is ads, then yes, $6/month solves your problem.
If your problem with Reddit is wondering whether the comment you are replying to was written by a person or by a bot, ad removal is not the solution. That problem requires verification, which Reddit does not offer at any price point.
The two problems feel different but they share a root cause: Reddit’s business model. Free accounts with no verification create the bot problem. Ad revenue creates the ad problem. Reddit Premium solves the symptom that is easiest to monetize (ads) and ignores the one that is harder (bots).
Source: Reddit Premium page
Q&A
Is Reddit Premium worth it?
Reddit Premium is worth $6/month if ad removal is your primary goal. It does not improve content quality, reduce bot activity, or verify that the accounts you interact with are real people. If the bot and content quality problem is what bothers you about Reddit, Premium does not address it.
Q&A
Does Reddit Premium reduce bots on the platform?
No. Reddit Premium is an ad-removal subscription. It has no effect on bot account creation, spam posting, or automated engagement. Reddit's bot problem exists at the platform architecture level. Premium subscribers see the same bot content in threads, they just do not see ads between it.
Q&A
How does Reddit Premium compare to Truliv?
Reddit Premium ($6/month) removes ads. Truliv ($9/month) verifies every account is a real human and has no ads by default. The $3 difference buys fundamentally different things: cosmetic ad removal on an open platform versus structural human verification on a closed one.
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See plans & pricing| Reddit Premium | Truliv | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | $6/month | $9–$19/mo |
| Setup fee | Varies | $0 |
| Contract | None | None |
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