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Scrapio pricing and alternatives: Hacker News comment API

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100% complete: both key fields we checkSee the 2 fields
$0.023per 1,000 commentsHalf of the 16 plans we rank by price cost $0.06 per 1,000 comments or less. This plan is cheaper than 75% of the 16 plans.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.ProLevelMax, ScrapingIsNotACrime and AnyAPI are the best Hacker News comment API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Starter one of Scrapio's 4 plans
Call: GET /v1/hacker-news/item Scrapio's only call for this API
API: Hacker News comment API one of Scrapio's 51 APIs

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  • Both key fields we check. Comment and Commenter.
  • A monthly subscription. You pay $29 a month for 25,000 credits, enough for 2,500 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire at the end of the billing cycle.
  • One call. You send id to GET /v1/hacker-news/item. You can also send include_comments. The call returns the story's comments.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering a binding contract. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Scrapio: Hacker News comment API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 comments. We also show the UnifAPI plan. Its price is farther from this plan's price.

This planScrapio, $29 monthlyScrapingIsNotACrime, freeAnyAPI, free, Starting balanceProLevelMax, top-upSocial Fetch, $2,430 yearlyUnifAPI, top-up, Pay-as-you-go
$ per 1,000 comments$0.023$0.00$0.00$0.0006$0.041$1.00
Completeness100%100%100%100%100%100%
Billingmonthlyfreefreepay firstyearlypay first
Pay$29$0$0any amount$2,430any amount
Enough for2,500 pages a month100 pages, onceabout 66 pages, onceas many as you pay for50,000 pages a monthas many as you pay for
Freshnessunknownliveunknownliveliveunknown
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering a binding contractanyoneone new account each: anyone 18 or over, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party listanyone with an account, one account per person, topping up by card (USD) or Alipay (CNY)anyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind itanyone

Every Hacker News comment API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-01.

  1. docs.scrapio.dev/api-reference/hacker-news/item.md
  2. docs.scrapio.dev/llms.txt
  3. docs.scrapio.dev/rate-limits
  4. scrapio.dev
  5. scrapio.dev/pricing
  6. scrapio.dev/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$0.023
Perpage of 500
Billingmonthly
$ a month$29
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 169 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchRetrieves a Hacker News item (story, comment, job, poll, or poll option) by id from the official Firebase API. Set `include_comments=true` to recursively resolve the comment tree (capped at depth 5 / 500 comments).
Data
Use dataTerms of Service, 4. Acceptable Use: "You may only scrape or fetch content from websites you own, have explicit permission to access, or where doing so complies with applicable law and the target site's terms. You must not use the Service to collect personal data without a lawful basis under applicable privacy law (e.g. GDPR, CCPA). You must not use the Service to bypass authentication, circumvent paywalls, or engage in credential stuffing. You must not resell, sublicense, or white-label the Service without our written consent. You must not use the Service in a way that damages, disables, or impairs our infrastructure or that of third parties. Automated bulk collection of personal data, medical records, financial data, or government data is prohibited without our express written approval.", 7. Intellectual Property: "All content fetched through the Service remains the property of its respective owners.", 8. Data and Privacy: "You are solely responsible for the data you collect through the Service and for complying with all applicable data protection laws."
Plan
Pay$29
You get25,000 credits a month
Enough for2,500 pages a month
Expiresat the end of the billing cycle
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendid. Optional: include_comments
MethodGET
Path/v1/hacker-news/item
About the plan
PlanStarter
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering a binding contract
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, comment ID, text, created at, commenter, reply to, replies

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