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API.SH pricing: Hacker News comment API

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100% complete: both fields on our checklistSee the 2 fields
$0.00per 1,000 commentsWe haven't run API.SH through our Hacker News comment API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 29 plans for Hacker News comment APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.016 or less per 1,000 comments. See the best free Hacker News comment API plan.Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 comments. Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many comments as Scrollhound's rate limit allows. ScrapeMole's pay-as-you-go plan costs the least for 10,000 comments a month: $0.07.Scrollhound's $25 pack covers any number of comments. Scrollhound's $25 pack costs less up front than Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan.Algolia, Hacker News and ProLevelMax are the best Hacker News comment API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest API.SH plan for that many comments. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of API.SH's 8 plans
Call: GET /hackernews/v1/item API.SH's only call for this API
API: Hacker News comment API one of API.SH's 99 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • Both fields on our checklist. Comment and Commenter.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 1,000 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits don't roll over.
  • One call. You send id to GET /hackernews/v1/item. You can also send depth. The call returns the story's comments.
  • Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over with a working email address. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

API.SH: Hacker News comment API alternatives

API.SH alternatives: other Hacker News comment API providers by price

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

This planAPI.SH, freeAlgolia, freeHacker News, freeProLevelMax, 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 for1,000 pages a monthnot publishednot publishedabout 666 pagesabout 33 pages, once
Freshnessunknownunknownunknownliveunknown
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over with a working email addressanyoneanyonenew users, one per person: $1 when you verify your email and $1 more after your first successful run, no card requiredanyone 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 2026-11-08.

  1. api.sh
  2. api.sh/docs/billing
  3. api.sh/docs/errors
  4. api.sh/docs/hackernews-item
  5. api.sh/legal/acceptable-use
  6. api.sh/legal/terms
  7. api.sh/pricing

Product details

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

  • Comment
  • Commenter
Price
$ per 1,000 comments$0.00
Perpage, size not stated
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 6,019 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchA story, poll, job or comment with its full reply tree: title, URL, text (plain and HTML), author, points, created_at, descendants, and nested comments (id, author, created_at, text, reply_count, replies).
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may not: resell or provide raw access to the Service as a competing API without our written agreement, attempt to get around credits, limits or security, interfere with the Service or other customers, reverse engineer the Service except where the law allows, or use the Service in breach of the Acceptable Use Policy.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits a month
Enough for1,000 pages a month
Expiresunused credits don't roll over
Rate limit
Concurrentno limit
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendid. Optional: depth
MethodGET
Path/hackernews/v1/item
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over with a working email address
The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

comment ID, text, created at, commenter, reply to, depth, replies, post ID, post title, post link URL, post author, post score, post created at, post comment count

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