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As I understand it the bot is free. But it costs to run it. There are fees for using search APIs.

I know Reddit has simple bots like automoderator, however I wasn't aware Reddit had a free plagiarism bot, do you mind linking me it? I would definitely like to talk to the dev about methodology.

Right, but this searches internally through reddit (which is searchable). Is there one that searches for articles already on the web?