Scrollhound pricing: Hacker News comment API
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$0.00per 1,000 commentsWe haven't run Scrollhound through our Hacker News comment API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 28 plans for Hacker News comment APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.014 per 1,000 comments or less. See the best free Hacker News comment API plan.Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 comments. Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many comments as Scrollhound's rate limit allows.Scrollhound's $25 pack covers any number of comments. Scrollhound's $25 pack costs less up front than Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan.Algolia, Hacker News and ProLevelMax are the best Hacker News comment API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free start one of Scrollhound's 5 plans
- FreeFree start$0.00 per 1,000
- $25 packPay as you gono limit
- $39 monthlySolo$0.000038 per 1,000
- $49 monthlyPro$0.000047 per 1,000
- $249 monthlyAgency$0.00024 per 1,000
Call:
GET / Scrollhound's only call for this APIAPI: Hacker News comment API one of Scrollhound's 16 APIs
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- Hacker News comment API
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About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 1 of the 2 fields on our checklist. Comment.
- Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits. You spend the credits on Scrollhound's other calls. This call is free for up to 1,209,600 pages in all. Unused credits expire after 7 days.
- One call. You send
reftoGET /. You can also sendv1/ hn/ item comments. The call returns the story's comments. - Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over who signs in with an email address. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Scrollhound: Hacker News comment API alternatives
Scrollhound alternatives: other Hacker News comment API providers by price
The table starts with Scrollhound's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 comments closest to Scrollhound's.
| Scrollhound, $39 monthly | ProLevelMax, $10,000 pack | Monocrawl, $7,668 yearly | ScrapeMole, pay as you go | Scrapio, $299 monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 comments | $0.000038 | $0.00052 | $0.0032 | $0.0067 | $0.012 |
| Completeness | 50% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Billing | monthly | pay first | yearly | pay as you go | monthly |
| Pay | $39 | $10,000 | $7,668 | per call | $299 |
| Enough for | 5,184,000 pages a month | about 3,833,333 pages | 400,000 pages a month | 1 page | 50,000 pages a month |
| Freshness | unknown | live | unknown | live | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone aged 18 or over who signs in with an email address | anyone who sends the Contact sales form (company, work email, top-up amount, use case), paid by bank transfer and invoiced | anyone | anyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base or Solana | anyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering a binding contract |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Comment
- Commenter, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 comments | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | page of 200 |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | nothing else |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Hacker News is always free: it never uses credits or counts toward your monthly limit. |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | You must not use the Service to: break any law or regulation, or help anyone else to do so, harass, stalk or intimidate any person, compile profiles of private individuals, or disclose personal information about them, send unsolicited bulk messages, commit fraud, or distribute malicious software, infringe any person's intellectual property, privacy or other rights, create, sell or distribute datasets of Third-Party Content, redistribute Third-Party Content in bulk, or build a product or service that competes with the Service, make decisions about an individual that produce legal effects on that individual or similarly significantly affect them, such as decisions on employment, credit, housing or insurance. You must not: circumvent any usage limit, Read balance or security measure, or open more than one Account to avoid a limit, extract data from the Service by automated means other than through the MCP server, the REST API or the command-line tool, and within the limits that apply to your Account, attack, overload, probe or disrupt the Service, or decompile or reverse engineer it, except to the extent the law allows you to do so. Each Account is for one person. You must not share your Account with another person or resell access to the Service. You are responsible for complying with each Platform's terms that apply to your use of its content. |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 100 credits |
| Enough for | 1,209,600 pages, once |
| Expires | 7 days |
| Per second | 2 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | ref. Optional: comments |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /v1/hn/item |
| Plan | Free start |
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| Who can get it | anyone aged 18 or over who signs in with an email address |
The 2 fields the plan's answer can hold
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