# ScrapeMole, pay as you go: Hacker News comment API

> One Hacker News story with its comment tree flattened (author, text, depth), capped for LLM context.

ScrapeMole's Hacker News comment API on its Pay per call over x402 plan. It costs $0.0067 per 1,000 comments. It returns both key fields we check: Comment and Commenter.
We haven't run ScrapeMole through [our Hacker News comment API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-comment-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/prolevelmax/top-up/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/algolia/free/llms.txt), [ProLevelMax](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/prolevelmax/top-up/llms.txt) and [Hacker News](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/hacker-news/free/llms.txt) are the best Hacker News comment API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go
- [Hacker News comment API: 6 providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-comment-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapemole.pages.dev/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-comment-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://social.scrapemole.workers.dev/v1/hn/thread`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://social.scrapemole.workers.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-comment-api-pricing
- Sold by: ScrapeMole (https://scrapemole.pages.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-comment-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Comment: ✓
- Commenter: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 comments: $0.0067
- Per: page of 300
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: One Hacker News story with its comment tree flattened (author, text, depth), capped for LLM context.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You 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

- Pay: per call
- You get: 1 request
- Enough for: 1 page

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: id. Optional: limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/hn/thread

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay per call over x402
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## ScrapeMole's plans (1)

- [ScrapeMole, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $0.0067 per 1,000, 100% complete, live

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

- `GET /v1/hn/thread`: [ScrapeMole, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## ScrapeMole's APIs (11)

- [ScrapeMole: web search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: Bluesky profile API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-profile-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: search autocomplete API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: Hacker News search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: news API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: Bluesky post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-post-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
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- [ScrapeMole: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
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- [ScrapeMole: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## ScrapeMole: Hacker News comment API alternatives

- [ScrapingIsNotACrime, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Social Fetch, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/social-fetch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [SocialCrawl, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/socialcrawl/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ProLevelMax, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/prolevelmax/top-up/llms.txt): $0.0006 per 1,000, 100% complete, live

## 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.

- https://scrapemole.pages.dev/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-comment-api-pricing
- https://scrapemole.pages.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-comment-api-pricing
- https://scrapemole.pages.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-comment-api-pricing
- https://social.scrapemole.workers.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-comment-api-pricing
- https://social.scrapemole.workers.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-comment-api-pricing