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ScrapeMole pricing: Hacker News comment API

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100% complete: both key fields we checkSee the 2 fields
$0.0067per 1,000 commentsWe haven't run ScrapeMole through our Hacker News comment API benchmark yet.Half of the 25 plans we rank by price cost $0.023 per 1,000 comments or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 comments than 64% of the 25 plans.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 Hacker News are the best Hacker News comment API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Pay per call over x402 ScrapeMole's only plan
Call: GET /v1/hn/thread ScrapeMole's only call for this API
API: Hacker News comment API one of ScrapeMole's 11 APIs

About this item

  • Live. ScrapeMole reads the comments on Hacker News when you call the API.
  • Both key fields we check. Comment and Commenter.
  • Nothing to buy first. You pay per call for 1 request, enough for 1 page.
  • One call. You send id to GET /v1/hn/thread. You can also send limit. The call returns the story's comments.
  • Who can get it: anyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base or Solana. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ScrapeMole: Hacker News comment API alternatives

ScrapeMole alternatives: every Hacker News comment API provider ranked

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 comments. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planScrapeMole, pay as you goScrapingIsNotACrime, freeSocial Fetch, freeSocialCrawl, freeProLevelMax, top-up
$ per 1,000 comments$0.0067$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.0006
Completeness100%100%100%100%100%
Billingpay as you gofreefreefreepay first
Payper call$0$0$0any amount
Enough for1 page100 pages, onceabout 33 pages100 pages, onceas many as you pay for
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base or Solanaanyoneanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind itanyone 18 or overanyone with an account, one account per person, topping up by card (USD) or Alipay (CNY)

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

  1. scrapemole.pages.dev/
  2. scrapemole.pages.dev/llms.txt
  3. scrapemole.pages.dev/terms
  4. social.scrapemole.workers.dev/llms.txt
  5. social.scrapemole.workers.dev/openapi.json

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$0.0067
Perpage of 300
Billingpay as you go
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchOne Hacker News story with its comment tree flattened (author, text, depth), capped for LLM context.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou are responsible for how you use the data and for complying with the law and with the terms of the sites the data comes from. Do not use the API to build profiles of individuals, for spam, or to infringe copyright (transcripts are provided for analysis, search, accessibility and research, do not republish them as your own content).
Plan
Payper call
You get1 request
Enough for1 page
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendid. Optional: limit
MethodGET
Path/v1/hn/thread
About the plan
PlanPay per call over x402
Who can get itanyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base or Solana
The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post title, post score, post comment count, post author, post link URL, post created at, comment ID, commenter, text, created at, depth

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