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ByCrawl pricing: Hacker News comment API

ByCrawl's sitellms.txtHacker News comment API: 6 providers comparedByCrawl: Hacker News comment API alternatives

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100% complete: both key fields we checkSee the 2 fields
$9 monthlyWe haven't run ByCrawl through our Hacker News comment API benchmark yet.This plan costs $9 a month. We rank 25 plans for Hacker News comment APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.023 per 1,000 comments or less.ProLevelMax's top-up is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 comments: $0.0006. ProLevelMax charges for each page of results. We count 5,000 comments on each page to get the $0.0006 price.Algolia, ProLevelMax and Hacker News are the best Hacker News comment API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Lite one of ByCrawl's 4 plans
Call: GET /hackernews/items/{itemId}/comments ByCrawl's only call for this API
API: Hacker News comment API one of ByCrawl's 33 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • Both key fields we check. Comment and Commenter.
  • A monthly subscription. You pay $9 a month for 1,000 credits, enough for 500 pages.
  • One call. You send itemId to GET /hackernews/items/{itemId}/comments. You can also send depth. The call returns the story's comments.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ByCrawl: Hacker News comment API alternatives

ByCrawl alternatives: every Hacker News comment API provider ranked

We list other providers' plans billed monthly. These plans come closest to this plan in number of key fields.

This planByCrawl, $9 monthlyAnysite, $49 monthly
Completeness100%100%
Billingmonthlymonthly
Pay$9$49
Enough for500 pages a month15,000 pages a month
Freshnessunknownlive
Who can get itanyoneanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

  1. bycrawl.com/en/docs/api-reference
  2. bycrawl.com/en/docs/api-reference/hackernews
  3. bycrawl.com/en/docs/api-reference/linkedin
  4. bycrawl.com/en/docs/error-codes
  5. bycrawl.com/en/docs/getting-started
  6. bycrawl.com/pricing
  7. bycrawl.com/terms

Product details

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

  • Comment
  • Commenter
Price
Perpage, size not stated
Billingmonthly
$ a month$9
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 90 other calls
In their words
Their pitchGet comment tree for a Hacker News item.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree that you will: Comply with all applicable laws and regulations, including data protection, privacy, and intellectual property laws in your jurisdiction and the jurisdictions of the people whose data you process, Honor the terms of service of any third-party platform whose data you access through the Service, [...] All materials on the ByCrawl website and dashboard — including [...] the structure of API responses — are owned by or licensed to Signalsurf, Inc. [...] You may not reproduce, distribute, modify, publicly display, create derivative works from, or otherwise exploit any portion of the website or its materials without our prior written permission. [...] You agree not to use the Service to: Violate any applicable law, regulation, or third-party right, Collect, store, or process personal data in violation of applicable privacy laws, Harass, defame, dox, stalk, or harm any individual or group, Build profiles for unlawful discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics, Attempt to reverse-engineer, decompile, or otherwise derive the source code of the Service, Circumvent rate limits, credit limits, billing controls, or access restrictions, Resell, sublicense, or redistribute raw API responses as a substitute for the Service, Use the Service to develop a competing product or service, Introduce malicious code, perform denial-of-service attacks, or otherwise interfere with the integrity or performance of the Service
Plan
Pay$9
You get1,000 credits a month
Enough for500 pages a month
Rate limit
Per second2
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You senditemId. Optional: depth
MethodGET
Path/hackernews/items/{itemId}/comments
About the plan
PlanLite
Who can get itanyone
The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

comment ID, text, created at, commenter, reply to, comment URL, post ID, replies, deleted, dead

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