# 2s.io, free: Hacker News search API

> 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).

2s.io's Free trial plan for the Hacker News search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 4 fields. 2s.io's docs list all 4: Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
2s.io limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
We haven't run 2s.io through [our Hacker News search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt) 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.](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt)
[Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrollhound/39-monthly/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/zapi/rp49000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: about $2.72.
[Scrollhound's $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrollhound/25-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. Scrollhound's $25 pack costs less up front than Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan.
[Algolia](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/algolia/free-get-api-v1-search/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrappa/10-pack/llms.txt) and [Social Fetch](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/social-fetch/29-monthly/llms.txt) are the best Hacker News search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/2s-io/free
- [Hacker News search API: the 6 best of 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://2s.io/catalog.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://2s.io/api/news/hn-search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://2s.io/news/hn-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: 2s.io (https://2s.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Text: ✓
- Links and tags: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 50
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- 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).

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.00028
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: query, tags, sort, author, limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/news/hn-search

## About the plan

- 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

## 2s.io's plans (2)

- [2s.io, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/2s-io/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [2s.io, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/2s-io/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete

## 2s.io's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /api/news/hn-search`: [2s.io, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/2s-io/free/llms.txt)

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## 2s.io: Hacker News search API alternatives

- [ReplyNodes, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/replynodes/99-monthly/llms.txt): $2.97 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [BESS x402, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [ProLevelMax, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/prolevelmax/top-up/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
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## 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.

- https://2s.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://2s.io/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://2s.io/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://2s.io/catalog.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://2s.io/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://2s.io/news/hn-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://2s.io/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing