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Genexxis pricing: Hacker News comment API

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100% complete: both fields on our checklistSee the 2 fields
$0.167per 1,000 commentsWe haven't run Genexxis through our Hacker News comment API benchmark yet.We rank 30 plans for Hacker News comment APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.02 or less per 1,000 comments. This plan costs less per 1,000 comments than 26% of the 30 plans.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.
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Plan: x402 pay per call Genexxis's only plan
Call: GET /item Genexxis's only call for this API
API: Hacker News comment API one of Genexxis's 7 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 5 minutes old. You get comments from Genexxis's copy of Hacker News.
  • Both fields on our checklist. Comment and Commenter.
  • Nothing to buy first. You pay per call.
  • One call. You send id to GET /item. You can also send maxComments. The call returns the story's comments.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

Genexxis: Hacker News comment API alternatives

Genexxis alternatives: other Hacker News comment API providers by price

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 comments. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most an hour old.

This planGenexxis, pay as you goScrapingIsNotACrime, freeProLevelMax, top-upScrapeMole, pay as you goSocial Fetch, $59 pack
$ per 1,000 comments$0.167$0.00$0.0006$0.0067$0.071
Completeness100%100%100%100%100%
Billingpay as you gofreepay firstpay as you gopay first
Payper call$0any amountper call$59
Enough foras many as you pay for100 pages, onceas many as you pay for1 pageabout 8,333 pages
Freshness5 minuteslivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base, with no account or API key, paying each call (x402)anyoneanyone with an account, one account per person, topping up by card (USD) or Alipay (CNY)anyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base or Solanaanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind it

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.

  1. api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources
  2. domainaudit.genexxis.com/llms.txt
  3. extract.genexxis.com/llms.txt
  4. hn.genexxis.com/.well-known/x402
  5. hn.genexxis.com/llms.txt
  6. hn.genexxis.com/openapi.json
  7. webtools.genexxis.com/llms.txt
  8. webtools.genexxis.com/openapi.json

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$0.167
Perpage of 30
Billingpay as you go
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
In their words
Their pitchOne Hacker News story (or comment) by id with up to 30 top-level comments: author, time, plain text up to 500 characters and reply count.
Data
Freshness5 minutes
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Payper call
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendid. Optional: maxComments
MethodGET
Path/item
About the plan
Planx402 pay per call
Who can get itanyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base, with no account or API key, paying each call (x402)
The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post title, post link URL, post author, post score, post comment count, post created at, results returned, comment ID, commenter, created at, text, replies

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