# Omniscrape, free: Hacker News comment API

> Get comment tree for a Hacker News item.

Omniscrape's Free plan for the Hacker News comment API costs $0.00 per 1,000 comments. We check each provider's docs for 2 fields. Omniscrape's docs list 1: Comment.
We haven't run Omniscrape through [our Hacker News comment API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-comment-api.txt) 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.](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-comment-api.txt) [Algolia's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/algolia/free/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 90.7 out of 100.
[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, with no charge 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, and 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/omniscrape/free
- [Hacker News comment API in 2026: the 6 best of 20+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-comment-api.txt)
- Get it: https://omniscrape.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-comment-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.omniscrape.dev/hackernews/items/:itemId/comments`
- API key: with the plan, on https://omniscrape.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-comment-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.omniscrape.dev/en/docs/api-reference/hackernews?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-comment-api-pricing#get-hackernewsitemsitemidcomments--2-credits
- Sold by: Omniscrape (https://omniscrape.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-comment-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Comment: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 comments: $0.00
- Per: page, size not stated
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 96 other Omniscrape calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get comment tree for a Hacker News item.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- 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.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 50 pages

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: itemId. Optional: depth
- Method: GET
- Path: /hackernews/items/:itemId/comments

## About the plan

- 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

## Omniscrape's plans (6)

- [Omniscrape, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/omniscrape/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [Omniscrape, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/omniscrape/9-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Omniscrape, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/omniscrape/29-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Omniscrape, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/omniscrape/79-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Omniscrape, $159 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/omniscrape/159-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Omniscrape, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/omniscrape/contact-us/llms.txt): 50% complete

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

- `GET /hackernews/items/:itemId/comments`: [Omniscrape, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/omniscrape/free/llms.txt)

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## Omniscrape: Hacker News comment API alternatives

[Omniscrape alternatives: other Hacker News comment API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/omniscrape-alternatives.txt)

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 comments.

- [Algolia, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/algolia/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Hacker News, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/hacker-news/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
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- [AnyAPI, free trial key](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/anyapi/free-trial-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete

## 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.

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