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ProLevelMax 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 6 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.
Plan: Sign-up credit one of ProLevelMax's 5 plans
Call: POST /v1/run ProLevelMax's only call for this API
API: Hacker News comment API one of ProLevelMax's 66 APIs

About this item

  • Live. ProLevelMax reads the comments on Hacker News when you call the API.
  • Both key fields we check. Comment and Commenter.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $2 of credit, enough for about 666 pages.
  • One call. You send input.id to POST /v1/run. You set scraper to "procli_hackernews_b". You can also send input.max_comments. The call returns the answer when the provider is quick. When the provider is slow, the call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ProLevelMax: Hacker News comment API alternatives

The table starts with ProLevelMax's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 comments closest to ProLevelMax's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

ProLevelMax, $10,000 packParse, $1,000 monthly
$ per 1,000 comments$0.00052$0.60
Completeness100%100%
Billingpay firstmonthly
Pay$10,000$1,000
Enough forabout 3,833,333 pagesabout 33,333 pages a month
Freshnesslivelive
Who can get itanyone who sends the Contact sales form (company, work email, top-up amount, use case), paid by bank transfer and invoicedanyone of legal age to enter into the Terms of Service, or acting for an organization they have the legal authority to bind

Hacker News comment API pricing: plans compared

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-31.

  1. prolevelmax.com/data/hacker_news
  2. prolevelmax.com/data/hackernews/hacker-news-story-comments
  3. prolevelmax.com/data/linkedin
  4. prolevelmax.com/docs
  5. prolevelmax.com/openapi.json
  6. prolevelmax.com/pricing
  7. prolevelmax.com/terms

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 5,000
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 1,063 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchReturns a Hacker News story with its full comment tree, one row per item: the story first, then every comment in the order Hacker News shows them, with its depth and parent. Useful for reading or analysing a whole discussion.
Data
Freshnesslive
Use dataYou are responsible for how you use the data and must follow applicable laws and the rules of the source platforms. Do not use the service to harass, track or locate specific individuals, to collect or sell sensitive personal information, to send spam or commit fraud, or for any other unlawful purpose, and do not attempt to circumvent billing, rate limits or security measures.
Plan
Pay$0
You get$2
Enough forabout 666 pages
Rate limit
Concurrent5
Speed
Answerin the call or by polling
The call
You sendscraper "procli_hackernews_b", input.id. Optional: input.max_comments
MethodPOST
Path/v1/run
About the plan
PlanSign-up credit
Who can get itnew users, one per person: $1 when you verify your email and $1 more after your first successful run, no card required
The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

text, commenter, created at, reply to, replies, comment URL

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