2s.io pricing: Hacker News search API
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100% complete: all 4 fields on our checklistSee the 4 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run 2s.io through our Hacker News search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 90 plans for Hacker News search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.925 or less per 1,000 searches. See the best free Hacker News search API plan.Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches. Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many searches as Scrollhound's rate limit allows. Zapi's Rp49,000 monthly plan costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: about $2.72.Scrollhound's $25 pack covers any number of searches. Scrollhound's $25 pack costs less up front than Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan.Algolia, Scrappa and Social Fetch are the best Hacker News search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free trial one of 2s.io's 2 plans
Call:
GET / 2s.io's only call for this APIAPI: Hacker News search API one of 2s.io's 15 APIs
- Company hierarchy API
- Domain WHOIS API
- Email verification API
- Local business search API
- News API
- GitHub profile API
- GitHub repository API
- GitHub user repository API
- Hacker News search API
- Company enrichment API
GET /api/ business/ br-cnpj - Company enrichment API
GET /api/ business/ lei - Company enrichment API
GET /api/ business/ pl-krs - Company enrichment API
GET /api/ tax/ vat - Business verification API
GET /api/ business/ entity-profile - Business verification API
GET /api/ business/ fi-companies - Business verification API
GET /api/ business/ fr-companies - Business verification API
GET /api/ business/ no-companies - Business verification API
GET /api/ business/ sos-search - Business verification API
GET /api/ business/ uk-companies - IP company lookup API
GET /api/ geo/ ip - IP company lookup API
POST /api/ ipinfo/ bulk - IP company lookup API
GET /api/ net/ ip-resolve - Job postings API
GET /api/ gov/ usajobs - Job postings API
GET /api/ job/ federal-search - Web search API
GET /api/ search/ ai - Web search API
GET /api/ search/ web - Web scraping API
POST /api/ search/ extract - Web scraping API
GET /api/ url/ clean - Web scraping API
GET /api/ url/ render
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- All 4 fields on our checklist. Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
- Nothing to pay. 2s.io limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
- One call. You call
GET /. Every input is optional:api/ news/ hn-search query,tags,sort,author,limit. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.
2s.io: Hacker News search API alternatives
2s.io alternatives: other Hacker News search API providers by price
The table starts with 2s.io's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to 2s.io's.
| 2s.io, pay as you go | ReplyNodes, $99 monthly | BESS x402, pay as you go | ProLevelMax, top-up | SouthPow Media, pay as you go | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 searches | $3.00 | $2.97 | $3.00 | $3.00 | $3.00 |
| Completeness | 100% | 0% | 100% | 100% | 75% |
| Billing | pay as you go | monthly | pay as you go | pay first | pay as you go |
| Pay | per call | $99 | per call | any amount | per call |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | about 33,333 calls a month | as many as you pay for | as many as you pay for | as many as you pay for |
| Freshness | unknown | unknown | unknown | live | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base or Solana, paying each call over x402, with no account or API key | anyone at least 18 years old and capable of forming a binding contract | anyone with a wallet paying USDC on Base, Polygon or Arbitrum (x402), no account or API key | anyone with an account, one account per person, topping up by card (USD) or Alipay (CNY) | anyone with a wallet paying each call in USDC (x402 on Base or Solana, or MPP on Tempo), with no account or API key |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Text
- Links and tags
- Engagement
- Author
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Most per search | 50 |
|---|---|
| Also pays for | nothing else |
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
|---|
| Their pitch | Full-text search across all of Hacker News (via the Algolia HN API). Search stories or comments by keyword, sorted by relevance or by date (newest first). |
|---|
| Keep data | no API terms |
|---|---|
| Use data | no API terms |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|
| Per second | 0.00028 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
|---|
| You send | nothing required. Optional: query, tags, sort, author, limit |
|---|---|
| Method | GET |
| Path | /api/news/hn-search |
| Plan | Free trial |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone, with no wallet or payment, for one call per endpoint per hour (a request with ?trial=1 or the X-2s-Trial: 1 header) |
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold
post ID, post type, title, link URL, author username, score, comment count, text, created at, permalink, total results