# Genexxis, pay as you go: Hacker News comment API

> One 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.

Genexxis's x402 pay per call plan for the Hacker News comment API costs $0.167 per 1,000 comments. We check each provider's docs for 2 fields. Genexxis's docs list both: Comment and Commenter.
We haven't run Genexxis through [our Hacker News comment API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-comment-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/scrollhound/39-monthly/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 comments a month: $0.07.
[Scrollhound's $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/scrollhound/25-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of comments. Scrollhound's $25 pack costs less up front than Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan.
[Algolia](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/algolia/free/llms.txt), [Hacker News](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/hacker-news/free/llms.txt) and [ProLevelMax](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/prolevelmax/top-up/llms.txt) are the best Hacker News comment API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/genexxis/pay-as-you-go
- [Hacker News comment API: the 6 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-comment-api.txt)
- Get it: https://hn.genexxis.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-comment-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://hn.genexxis.com/item`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://hn.genexxis.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-comment-api-pricing#/paths/~1item
- Sold by: Genexxis (https://webtools.genexxis.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-comment-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Comment: ✓
- Commenter: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 comments: $0.167
- Per: page of 30
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: One 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

- Freshness: 5 minutes
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: id. Optional: maxComments
- Method: GET
- Path: /item

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## Genexxis's plans (1)

- [Genexxis, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/genexxis/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $0.167 per 1,000, 100% complete, 5 minutes

## Genexxis's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /item`: [Genexxis, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/genexxis/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Genexxis's APIs (7)

- [Genexxis: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/genexxis/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Genexxis: tech stack API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/genexxis/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Genexxis: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/genexxis/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Genexxis: Hacker News search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/genexxis/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Genexxis: Hacker News comment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/genexxis/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Genexxis: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan, GET /whois-bulk](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/genexxis/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-whois-bulk/llms.txt)
- [Genexxis: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan, GET /domain-info](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/genexxis/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-domain-info/llms.txt)
- [Genexxis: email verification API pricing, 1 plan, GET /email-validate, Validate a list of emails](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/genexxis/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-email-validate-validate-a-list-of-emails/llms.txt)
- [Genexxis: email verification API pricing, 1 plan, GET /email-validate, Validate one email](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/genexxis/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-email-validate-validate-one-email/llms.txt)

## Genexxis: Hacker News comment API alternatives

- [ScrapingIsNotACrime, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ProLevelMax, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/prolevelmax/top-up/llms.txt): $0.0006 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapeMole, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $0.0067 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Social Fetch, $59 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/social-fetch/59-pack/llms.txt): $0.071 per 1,000, 100% complete, live

## 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.

- https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-comment-api-pricing
- https://domainaudit.genexxis.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-comment-api-pricing
- https://extract.genexxis.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-comment-api-pricing
- https://hn.genexxis.com/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-comment-api-pricing
- https://hn.genexxis.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-comment-api-pricing
- https://hn.genexxis.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-comment-api-pricing
- https://webtools.genexxis.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-comment-api-pricing
- https://webtools.genexxis.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-comment-api-pricing