How Many Posts Can You Save on Reddit? The 1,000 Number, Explained

By ElioSeptember 4, 20265 min read

You can save as many posts as you like on Reddit, but your Saved tab only ever shows the most recent 1,000 of them, posts and comments counted together. Save number 1,001 pushes the oldest item out of view. It is not deleted; it is hidden, and you can get it back.

That single sentence answers most of the ways people ask this question, so the rest of this page is the detail: where the number comes from, what happens to the older saves, and how to see your real total.

Is there a limit to saved posts on Reddit?

Not on saving. Reddit's Help Center article on saving a post explains how to save and where to find your saves, and never mentions a maximum. You will not see an error when you save your 1,000th or 5,000th post.

The limit is on viewing. Reddit builds every list on the site, from a subreddit's front page to your own Saved tab, as a listing that returns at most 1,000 items, 100 at a time. The Python Reddit API Wrapper documentation describes it as an upstream limitation: "most of Reddit's listings contain a maximum of 1000 items, and are returned 100 at a time." The open-source snapshot of Reddit's own code sets a precompute_limit of 1,000 on those cached lists (queries.py), and the API reference caps each page at 100.

Do saved posts and saved comments share the 1,000?

In the combined Saved view, yes. Reddit keeps saved posts and saved comments as two separate lists, each cut off at 1,000, and merges them for display. That means the combined tab can hide items that a filtered view would still show. On old.reddit.com you can add ?type=links or ?type=comments to your saved page's address to see each list on its own, which can surface up to roughly 1,000 posts plus roughly 1,000 comments. Reddit does not document this behaviour, so treat it as a quirk that currently works rather than a feature.

What happens to my 1,001st save?

It appears at the top of the list, and the oldest visible save disappears from the bottom. Everything points to the old item still being saved on your account:

Reddit's data export lists saves well beyond what the tab shows (more on that below).
Unsaving a recent item makes an older one reappear at the end of the list, a behaviour the reddit-stash project relies on to walk back through a long history.
The 1,000 is a cap on the cached list in Reddit's code, not on the save relationship itself.

Reddit has never confirmed any of this in writing, and at least one archiving tool's documentation claims the oldest save is overwritten for good. The export is the way to find out for certain, and in our experience it recovers the lot.

How do I see how many posts I have saved?

Reddit does not show a count anywhere. The only official way to see your full list is to request your data:

Open Settings, then Privacy, then Request your data, or go to reddit.com/settings/data-request.
Choose the full history rather than a date range.
Wait for the link, which arrives as a Reddit message. Reddit says it can take up to 30 days; a few days is typical.
Open saved_posts.csv and saved_comments.csv in the archive. The number of rows is your real total.

The files hold post IDs and links rather than the posts themselves, so they are a count and an index, not a readable archive.

How do I keep more than 1,000 saves?

You have four options, covered in detail in our guide to getting past Reddit's 1,000 saved posts limit: unsave as you go, export with a script, use the data export, or move your saves into a bookmark manager that has no cap of its own.

The last one is the only option that gives you the posts back in readable, searchable form. Siloe connects to your Reddit account, reaches past the 1,000-item view, and imports your saved history into a library on your phone or Mac, alongside what you save on X, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Bluesky. Single imports have recovered histories of 1,784, 5,300, and more than 7,000 saves. From there, your saves are searchable by keyword, subreddit, and username, and Reddit's listing cap no longer applies to them.

The short version

There is no limit on how many posts you can save on Reddit.
The Saved tab shows the most recent 1,000 items, posts and comments together.
Older saves are hidden, not deleted. The data export and a bookmark manager that imports past the cutoff both recover them.
To see your true total, request your data and count the rows in saved_posts.csv.