AgentUtility pricing: Hacker News search API, POST /
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100% complete: all 4 fields on our checklistSee the 4 fields
$1.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run AgentUtility through our Hacker News search API benchmark 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 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: Pay per call (x402) AgentUtility's only plan
Call:
POST / one of AgentUtility's 2 calls for this APIPOST /Pay as you go, Pay per call (x402)$1.00 per 1,000hacker-news-search POST /Pay as you go, Pay per call (x402)$1.00 per 1,000hn-search
API: Hacker News search API one of AgentUtility's 8 APIs
- Search autocomplete API
- People enrichment API
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POST /crypto-news - News API
POST /stocks-news - Email verification API
POST /disposable-email-check - Email verification API
POST /email - Email verification API
POST /email-deliverability-check - Hacker News search API
- Domain WHOIS API
POST /whois - Domain WHOIS API
POST /whois-lookup
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 buy first. You pay per call.
- One call. You send
querytoPOST /. You can also sendhn-search type,author,min_,points since,until,sortandlimit. The call returns the stories Hacker News finds for the query. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.
AgentUtility: Hacker News search API alternatives
AgentUtility alternatives: other Hacker News search API providers by price
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.
| This planAgentUtility, pay as you go, Pay per call (x402), POST /hn-search | Scrappa, pay as you go | ScrapeMole, pay as you go | Social Fetch, $2,430 yearly | AnyAPI, pay as you go | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 searches | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.35 | $1.50 |
| Completeness | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Billing | pay as you go | pay as you go | pay as you go | yearly | pay as you go |
| Pay | per call | per call | per call | $2,430 | per call |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | as many as you pay for | 1 call | 150,000 pages a month | as many as you pay for |
| Freshness | unknown | unknown | live | live | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC on Base or Solana from a wallet (x402) | anyone 18 or over | anyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base or Solana | anyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind it | anyone 18 or over, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list, paying from a USDC wallet on Base (x402) or a Tempo wallet (MPP) |
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.
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 | $1.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | pay as you go |
| Also pays for | nothing else |
|---|
| Their pitch | Searches 30M+ Hacker News stories and comments via the public Algolia HN index. |
|---|
| Keep data | no API terms |
|---|---|
| Use data | no API terms |
| Pay | per call |
|---|
| Batch | 1 |
|---|
| Answer | in the call |
|---|
| You send | query. Optional: type, author, min_points, since, until, sort, limit |
|---|---|
| Method | POST |
| Path | /hn-search |
| 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