Omniscrape Hacker News comment API pricing
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$0.00per 1,000 commentsWe haven't run Omniscrape through our Hacker News comment API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 30 plans for Hacker News comment APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.02 or less per 1,000 comments. 17 Hacker News comment API plans on our price sheet are free. Algolia's free plan scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 90.7 out of 100.Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 comments, with no charge 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, and 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.
Plan: Free one of Omniscrape's 6 plans
- FreeFree$0.00 per 1,000
- $9 monthlyLite
- $29 monthlyPro
- $79 monthlyPower
- $159 monthlyElite
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Call:
GET / Omniscrape's only call for this APIAPI: Hacker News comment API one of Omniscrape's 34 APIs
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About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 1 of the 2 fields on our checklist. Comment.
- Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits, enough for 50 pages.
- One call. You send
itemIdtoGET /. You can also sendhackernews/ items/ :itemId/ comments depth. The call returns the story's comments. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Omniscrape: Hacker News comment API alternatives
Omniscrape alternatives: other Hacker News comment API providers by price
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 comments.
| This planOmniscrape, free | Algolia, free | Hacker News, free | ProLevelMax, free | AnyAPI, free trial key | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 comments | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Completeness | 50% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Billing | free | free | free | free | free |
| Pay | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Enough for | 50 pages | not published | not published | about 666 pages | about 33 pages, once |
| Freshness | unknown | unknown | unknown | live | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone at least 18 years old and able to enter into a binding contract in their jurisdiction | anyone | anyone | new users, one per person: $1 when you verify your email and $1 more after your first successful run, no card required | anyone 18 or over, with no account, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-11.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Comment
- Commenter, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 comments | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | page, size not stated |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: 96 other Omniscrape calls |
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| $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Get comment tree for a Hacker News item. |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | You agree not to use the Service to: Violate any applicable law or the terms of any third-party platform whose data is being retrieved. Collect personal data for surveillance, harassment, doxxing, unsolicited marketing, or any unlawful profiling. Resell raw API responses as a competing scraping product without a written commercial agreement. Probe, scan, overload, or otherwise interfere with the availability or integrity of the Service. [...] Use of data retrieved through the Service must comply with the applicable third-party platform's terms of service and any relevant law in your jurisdiction. |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 100 credits |
| Enough for | 50 pages |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | itemId. Optional: depth |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /hackernews/items/:itemId/comments |
| Plan | Free |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone at least 18 years old and able to enter into a binding contract in their jurisdiction |
The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold
post ID, post title, post link URL, post score, comment ID, author, created at, text, parent ID, deleted, dead, replies, Hacker News URL, total comments