# AgentUtility, pay as you go, Pay per call (x402), POST /hacker-news-search: Hacker News search API

> Search Hacker News for startup news, YC news, Show HN launches, and founder discussion through the Algolia HN index.

AgentUtility's Pay per call (x402) plan for the Hacker News search API costs $1.00 per 1,000 searches. AgentUtility's docs list all 4 fields on our checklist: Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
We haven't run AgentUtility through [our Hacker News search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt) yet.
We rank 76 plans for Hacker News search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.96 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 72% of the 76 plans.
[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/agentutility/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-x402-post-hacker-news-search
- [Hacker News search API: the 6 best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://agentutility.ai/web-probe/hacker-news-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/hacker-news-search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://agentutility.ai/web-probe/hacker-news-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: AgentUtility (https://agentutility.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $1.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search Hacker News for startup news, YC news, Show HN launches, and founder discussion through the Algolia HN index.

## Data

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

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: type, author, min_points, since, until, sort, limit
- Method: POST
- Path: /hacker-news-search

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay per call (x402)
- Who can get it: anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC on Base or Solana from a wallet (x402)

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

search query, total results, post ID, title, author username, score, comment count, created at, link URL, source URL

## AgentUtility's plans (1)

- [AgentUtility, pay as you go, Pay per call (x402), POST /hacker-news-search](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/agentutility/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-x402-post-hacker-news-search/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 100% complete

## AgentUtility's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /hacker-news-search`: [AgentUtility, pay as you go, Pay per call (x402), POST /hacker-news-search](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/agentutility/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-x402-post-hacker-news-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /hn-search`: [AgentUtility, pay as you go, Pay per call (x402), POST /hn-search](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/agentutility/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-x402-post-hn-search/llms.txt)

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## AgentUtility: Hacker News search API alternatives

- [Scrappa, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrappa/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [ScrapeMole, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Social Fetch, $2,430 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/social-fetch/2430-yearly/llms.txt): $1.35 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [AnyAPI, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/anyapi/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 100% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.

- https://agentutility.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://agentutility.ai/start?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://agentutility.ai/web-probe/hacker-news-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://x402.agentutility.ai/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://x402.agentutility.ai/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing