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SandBase pricing: Hacker News comment API

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100% complete: both key fields we checkSee the 2 fields
$0.00per 1,000 commentsWe rank 23 plans by price. ProLevelMax's top-up is the cheapest paid plan 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.Algolia, ProLevelMax and ScrapingIsNotACrime are the best Hacker News comment API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Start one of SandBase's 3 plans
Call: POST /v1/api/hacker-news/story-comments SandBase's only call for this API
API: Hacker News comment API one of SandBase's 81 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.
  • One call. You send id to POST /v1/api/hacker-news/story-comments. The call returns the story's comments.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 18 and legally able to enter a contract. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SandBase: Hacker News comment API alternatives

SandBase alternatives: every Hacker News comment API provider ranked

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

This planSandBase, freeAlgolia, freeProLevelMax, freeScrapingIsNotACrime, freeScrappa, free
$ per 1,000 comments$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness100%100%100%100%100%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot publishednot publishedabout 666 pages100 pages, once500 pages a month
Freshnessunknownunknownliveliveunknown
Who can get itanyone at least 18 and legally able to enter a contractanyonenew users, one per person: $1 when you verify your email and $1 more after your first successful run, no card requiredanyoneanyone 18 or over

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-03.

  1. sandbase.ai/apis/hacker-news/story-comments.md
  2. sandbase.ai/docs/admin/billing
  3. sandbase.ai/docs/guides/billing
  4. sandbase.ai/docs/guides/concurrency-limits
  5. sandbase.ai/docs/guides/rate-limiting
  6. sandbase.ai/llms-full.txt
  7. sandbase.ai/llms.txt
  8. sandbase.ai/pricing
  9. sandbase.ai/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, size not stated
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 2,286 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchList the comments on a Hacker News story by id - text, author, and timestamp as clean JSON.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may use outputs to the extent allowed by applicable law and the relevant model, API, dataset or content license. [...] Verify rights before commercial use, publication or distribution. [...] Access to a search, scraping or social-data API is not permission to bypass access controls, infringe a platform’s terms or process personal information unlawfully. Public availability of data does not remove your obligations to the people or rights holders concerned. [...] Do not use SandBase or allow your users to use it for: [...] Infringing intellectual property, privacy, publicity or confidentiality rights, unlawful surveillance, doxxing or collection of personal information, [...] Circumventing safety systems, identity checks, billing, quotas, rate limits or access restrictions, exploiting trials, coupons or promotional credits.
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Concurrent2
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendid
MethodPOST
Path/v1/api/hacker-news/story-comments
About the plan
PlanStart
Who can get itanyone at least 18 and legally able to enter a contract
The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

comment ID, commenter, text, created at, reply to, post ID, comment URL, found

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