UnifAPI pricing and alternatives: Hacker News comment API

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100% complete: both key fields we checkSee the 2 fields

$1.00per 1,000 commentsHalf of the 6 plans we rank by price cost $1.00 per 1,000 comments or less. This plan is cheaper than 33% of the 6 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.

Plan: Pay-as-you-go one of UnifAPI's 3 plans

Call: GET /hacker-news/items/{id}/comments UnifAPI's only call for this API

GET /hacker-news/items/{id}/commentsTop-up, Pay-as-you-go$1.00 per 1,000

API: Hacker News comment API one of UnifAPI's 68 APIs

About this item

Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
Both key fields we check. Comment and Commenter.
A balance you top up. You pay any amount. You spend the whole balance on calls.
One call. You send id to GET /hacker-news/items/{id}/comments. You can also send limit and cursor. The call returns the story's comments.
Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

UnifAPI: Hacker News comment API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 comments.

	This planUnifAPI, top-up, Pay-as-you-go	AnyAPI, free, Starting balance	Anysite, free	ProLevelMax, top-up	Parse, $300 monthly
$ per 1,000 comments	$1.00	$0.00	$0.00	$0.0006	$0.90
Completeness	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%
Billing	pay first	free	free	pay first	monthly
Pay	any amount	$0	$0	any amount	$300
Enough for	as many as you pay for	about 66 pages, once	1,000 pages	as many as you pay for	about 6,666 pages a month
Freshness	unknown	unknown	live	live	live
Who can get it	anyone	one new account each: anyone 18 or over, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list	anyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction, who has not had a credit plan before, starting the trial takes a card	anyone 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.

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	$1.00
Per	result
Billing	pay first

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: 324 other calls

Not found
$ per 1,000	$9.00

In their words
Their pitch	Returns the comments on a Hacker News story, depth-first with parent ids and depth, so a thread can be rebuilt.

Data
Use data	You agree not to use our services for any unlawful purpose or in any way that could damage, disable, or impair the service. Prohibited activities include but are not limited to: Violating any applicable laws or regulations, Infringing on intellectual property rights, Transmitting malicious code or harmful content, Attempting to gain unauthorized access to systems, Interfering with or disrupting the service. [...] You may not use our services to: [...] Send unsolicited bulk messages (spam) [...] Circumvent any access controls or usage limits [...]. Public data has different legal postures depending on jurisdiction and platform. We provide the technical access, you're responsible for downstream use.

Plan
Expires	never

Rate limit
Per second	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	id. Optional: limit, cursor
Method	GET
Path	/hacker-news/items/{id}/comments

About the plan
Plan	Pay-as-you-go
Who can get it	anyone

The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

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