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

> Searches 30M+ Hacker News stories and comments via the public 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-hn-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/hn-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/hn-search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://agentutility.ai/web-probe/hn-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: Searches 30M+ Hacker News stories and comments via the public 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: /hn-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 /hn-search](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/agentutility/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-x402-post-hn-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/hn-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