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Social Fetch pricing and alternatives: Hacker News comment API

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100% complete: both key fields we checkSee the 2 fields
$0.00per 1,000 commentsWe rank 13 plans by price. 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.
Plan: Free one of Social Fetch's 12 plans
Call: GET /v1/hackernews/stories/{id}/comments Social Fetch's only call for this API
API: Hacker News comment API one of Social Fetch's 53 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Social Fetch reads the comments on Hacker News when you call the API.
  • Both key fields we check. Comment and Commenter.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits, enough for about 33 pages.
  • One call. You send id to GET /v1/hackernews/stories/{id}/comments. You can also send limit and cursor. The call returns the story's comments.
  • Who can get it: anyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Social Fetch: Hacker News comment API alternatives

The table starts with Social Fetch's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 comments closest to Social Fetch's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Social Fetch, $2,430 yearlyProLevelMax, top-upParse, $1,000 monthly
$ per 1,000 comments$0.041$0.0006$0.60
Completeness100%100%100%
Billingyearlypay firstmonthly
Pay$2,430any amount$1,000
Enough for50,000 pages a monthas many as you pay forabout 33,333 pages a month
Freshnesslivelivelive
Who can get itanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind itanyone with an account, one account per person, topping up by card (USD) or Alipay (CNY)anyone of legal age to enter into the Terms of Service, or acting for an organization they have the legal authority to bind

Hacker News comment API pricing: plans compared

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. socialfetch.dev
  2. socialfetch.dev/
  3. socialfetch.dev/docs/api/v1/hackernews/stories/id/comments/get.mdx
  4. socialfetch.dev/docs/capability-matrix.mdx
  5. socialfetch.dev/docs/credits.mdx
  6. socialfetch.dev/docs/errors.mdx
  7. socialfetch.dev/llms.txt
  8. socialfetch.dev/openapi.json
  9. socialfetch.dev/pricing
  10. socialfetch.dev/pricing.mdx
  11. socialfetch.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$0.00
Perpage of 100
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 273 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchList comments on a Hacker News story by id.
Data
Freshnesslive
Use dataYou agree not to: Use the Services in violation of applicable law. Use outputs to harass, surveil, discriminate against, or harm individuals or groups. Send spam, manipulate platforms, or engage in deceptive or fraudulent activity. Infringe intellectual property or other rights of third parties. Attempt to access non-public data, bypass rate limits or technical controls, or probe our systems in ways that could harm availability or security. Resell or redistribute the Services in ways that misrepresent their source, or use them to build a substantially similar competing API without our written consent. [...] On any plan you may incorporate Social Fetch data outputs into your own products and services, present them under your own brand without attribution to us, and supply them to your own customers. You may not share or resell API keys or other access credentials, expose the Social Fetch API itself as a like-for-like API, or build a substantially similar competing API. This gives you no right beyond what we hold ourselves in the underlying data: the terms of the source platforms, restrictions that apply to us and applicable law, including data-protection law, still apply, and you remain responsible for how your own customers use what you supply. [...] Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Services for your internal business purposes or to power your applications for your end users, in each case as intended.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough forabout 33 pages
Rate limit
Concurrent200
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendid. Optional: limit, cursor
MethodGET
Path/v1/hackernews/stories/{id}/comments
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind it
The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

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

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