Hacker News search API pricing: plans compared

Name: Hacker News search API plans
Creator: Datacircle
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Hacker News search APIs side by side: the fields each returns, what 1,000 searches cost and how fresh their results are.

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API	Score						Price		Not found	Charges	Plan				About the plan		Sources
API plan	Overall score	Price score	Data score	Cost to get started score	Bundle score	Performance score	$ per 1,000 searches	Billing	$ per 1,000	Also pays for	Pay	You get	Enough for	Expires	Plan	Who can get it	Read from
Hacker News search · 1 plan
AnyAPI, top-up from $10	N/A	88	N/A	93	100	N/A	$1.50	pay first		from the same budget: 469 other calls	$10	$10	about 6,666 calls	never	Manual top-up	anyone 18 or over, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list

AnyAPI, free trial key	N/A

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We add each plan's price, data, cost to get started, bundle and performance scores at their weights and scale the total to 100. Data and performance come from our benchmark, so until we benchmark the provider they are N/A, and so is the plan's overall score. A plan whose data score is 0 has an overall score of 0, whatever its other scores. Click or tap any score to see how we scored it. Move a weight to rank the plans by the new scores.

Price40

Price › $ per 1,000 searches
Not found › $ per 1,000

Data40

Our benchmark of the provider's call. N/A on a call we haven't benchmarked. Each API's sheet shows what we measured on each benchmarked plan, in the columns after its price.

Cost to get started10

About the plan › Who can get it
Price › Billing
Plan › Pay
Price › $ per 1,000 searches

On a pay as you go plan, the price of one result. On a tier that starts after a set number of monthly calls, the cost of those first calls.

Bundle10

Charges › Also pays for

Performance10

Our benchmark of the provider's call. N/A on a call we haven't benchmarked. Each API's sheet shows what we measured on each benchmarked plan, in the columns after its price.