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Algolia pricing: Hacker News comment API

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100% complete: both key fields we checkSee the 2 fields
$0.00per 1,000 commentsHalf of the 23 plans we rank by price cost $0.045 per 1,000 comments or less. This plan has the lowest price per 1,000 comments of the 23 plans.Algolia, ProLevelMax and ScrapingIsNotACrime are the best Hacker News comment API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free Algolia's only plan
Call: GET /api/v1/items/{id} Algolia's only call for this API
API: Hacker News comment API one of Algolia's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • Both key fields we check. Comment and Commenter.
  • Nothing to pay. Algolia limits how many pages you get but gives no number.
  • One call. You send id to GET /api/v1/items/{id}. The call returns the story's comments.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

Algolia: Hacker News comment API alternatives

Algolia alternatives: every Hacker News comment API provider ranked

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 comments.

This planAlgolia, freeProLevelMax, freeScrapingIsNotACrime, freeScrappa, freeAnyAPI, free trial key
$ per 1,000 comments$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness100%100%100%100%100%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot publishedabout 666 pages100 pages, once500 pages a monthabout 33 pages, once
Freshnessunknownliveliveunknownunknown
Who can get itanyonenew users, one per person: $1 when you verify your email and $1 more after your first successful run, no card requiredanyoneanyone 18 or overanyone 18 or over, with no account, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-02.

  1. hn.algolia.com/about
  2. hn.algolia.com/api
  3. algolia.com/policies/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Comment
  • Commenter
Score
Overall score90.7
Price score100
Accuracy score100
Cost to get started score100
Bundle score0
Performance score100
Price
$ per 1,000 comments$0.00
Perpage, size not stated
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchIt enables developers to access HN data programmatically using a REST API.
Data
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Per second2.78
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.46 s
The call
You sendid
MethodGET
Path/api/v1/items/{id}
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, comment ID, reply to, commenter, text, created at, replies

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