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Monocrawl pricing and alternatives: Hacker News comment API

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100% complete: both key fields we checkSee the 2 fields
$0.00per 1,000 commentsWe rank 22 plans by price. ProLevelMax's top-up costs the least 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.ProLevelMax, ScrapingIsNotACrime and AnyAPI are the best Hacker News comment API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Monocrawl's 13 plans
Call: GET /v1/hackernews/story/comments Monocrawl's only call for this API
API: Hacker News comment API one of Monocrawl's 49 APIs

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. You get 150 credits once, enough for 150 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send id to GET /v1/hackernews/story/comments. The call returns the story's comments.
  • Who can get it: anyone with a verified, non-disposable email. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: with conditions.

Monocrawl: Hacker News comment API alternatives

The table starts with Monocrawl's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 comments closest to Monocrawl's.

Monocrawl, $7,668 yearlyProLevelMax, top-upScrapio, $299 monthlySocial Fetch, $2,430 yearlyParse, $1,000 monthly
$ per 1,000 comments$0.0032$0.0006$0.012$0.041$0.60
Completeness100%100%100%100%100%
Billingyearlypay firstmonthlyyearlymonthly
Pay$7,668any amount$299$2,430$1,000
Enough for400,000 pages a monthas many as you pay for50,000 pages a month50,000 pages a monthabout 33,333 pages a month
Freshnessunknownliveunknownlivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone with an account, one account per person, topping up by card (USD) or Alipay (CNY)anyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering a binding contractanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind itanyone of legal age to enter into the Terms of Service, or acting for an organization they have the legal authority to bind

Every Hacker News comment API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-02.

  1. monocrawl.com
  2. monocrawl.com/docs/credits
  3. monocrawl.com/docs/endpoint-pricing
  4. monocrawl.com/docs/endpoints/hackernews/story/comments
  5. monocrawl.com/docs/endpoints/linkedin/profile
  6. monocrawl.com/docs/rate-limits
  7. monocrawl.com/legal/public-data
  8. monocrawl.com/openapi.json
  9. monocrawl.com/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 of 500
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 650 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe full comment tree of a Hacker News story in one call, flattened with depth and parent ids (up to 500 comments).
Data
Keep datano API terms
Use dataCustomer responsibilities, its Public data page: "Establish and document a lawful purpose and data-protection basis for your own collection, enrichment, storage, combination, disclosure and decision-making. [...] Use proportionate retention and security, avoid collecting unnecessary personal information, and do not republish a raw response merely because it was technically retrievable. Respect platform terms and third-party intellectual-property or contractual restrictions that apply to you. Do not attempt to turn public endpoints into access to private, deleted, paywalled or access-controlled material."
Plan
Pay$0
You get150 credits
Enough for150 pages, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per day300
Per second10
Concurrent50
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendid
MethodGET
Path/v1/hackernews/story/comments
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone with a verified, non-disposable email
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

comment ID, reply to, commenter, text, created at, replies, results returned

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