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Hacker News pricing: Hacker News comment API

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100% complete: both key fields we checkSee the 2 fields
$0.00per 1,000 commentsIn our Hacker News comment API benchmark, this plan scores 87.3 out of 100. Hacker News ranks 3rd of 6 providers.Half of the 25 plans we rank by price cost $0.023 per 1,000 comments or less. This plan and 1 other tie for the lowest price per 1,000 comments of the 25 plans.Algolia, ProLevelMax and Hacker News are the best Hacker News comment API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Public API Hacker News's only plan
Call: GET /v0/item/{id}.json Hacker News's only call
API: Hacker News comment API Hacker News's only API

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.
  • One call. You send id to GET /v0/item/{id}.json. The call returns the story's comments.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

Hacker News: Hacker News comment API alternatives

Hacker News alternatives: every Hacker News comment API provider ranked

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 comments. We also show the ByCrawl plan. It has no price per 1,000 comments.

This planHacker News, freeAlgolia, freeProLevelMax, freeAnyAPI, free trial keyScrapingIsNotACrime, freeByCrawl, $9 monthly
$ per 1,000 comments$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00not published
Completeness100%100%100%100%100%100%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreemonthly
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$9
Enough fornot publishednot publishedabout 666 pagesabout 33 pages, once100 pages, once500 pages a month
Freshnessunknownunknownliveunknownliveunknown
Who can get itanyoneanyonenew 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 listanyoneanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

  1. github.com/HackerNews/API
  2. github.com/HackerNews/API#items
  3. github.com/HackerNews/API/blob/master/LICENSE
  4. hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/126809.json
  5. hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8863.json
  6. news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
  7. ycombinator.com/legal

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 score87.3
Price score100
Accuracy score100
Cost to get started score100
Bundle score0
Performance score60
Price
$ per 1,000 comments$0.00
Perresult
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchIn partnership with Firebase, we're making the public Hacker News data available in near real time.
Data
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Concurrentno limit
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.76 s
The call
You sendid
MethodGET
Path/v0/item/{id}.json
About the plan
PlanPublic API
Who can get itanyone
The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

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

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