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Forums & Q&A
User-generated posts, comments and answers
Median per year
$65M
Range
$60M–$70M
Based on
2 prices
median $65M
$10M$100M
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Platforms where users write in their own words, like Reddit and Stack Overflow, license API access to their archives and new posts. These are some of the largest recurring deals in the market.
What drives the price
- Volume and freshness of new posts.
- Conversation structure: questions with accepted answers, threads with votes.
- Niche expertise that isn't elsewhere on the web.
Before you sign
- ✓Check your terms of service: do they let you license users' posts?
- ✓Price ongoing access separately from the archive.
Deals
| Date | Seller | Buyer | Reported price | Normalized | Terms | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Stack Overflow Developer Q&A via OverflowAPI | OpenAI Frontier lab | Undisclosed | — | Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ |
| May 2024 | Reddit Posts via API | OpenAI Frontier lab | ~$70M/yr | $70M per year | Annual license Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ |
| Feb 2024 | Reddit Posts for training and grounding | Google Big tech | $60M/yr | $60M per year | Annual license Training + real-time | Public Source ↗ Reddit's IPO filing showed $203M in total licensing contract value over 2–3 years. |