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Algolia pricing: Hacker News search API, GET /api/v1/search

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100% complete: all 4 key fields we checkSee the 4 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesHalf of the 44 plans we rank by price cost $2.577 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan and 1 other tie for the lowest price per 1,000 searches of the 44 plans.
Plan: Free Algolia's only plan
Call: GET /api/v1/search one of Algolia's 2 calls for this API
API: Hacker News search API one of Algolia's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • All 4 key fields we check. Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
  • Nothing to pay. You get up to 7,200,000 calls a month.
  • One call. You call GET /api/v1/search. Every input is optional: query, tags, numericFilters, page, hitsPerPage, restrictSearchableAttributes.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

Algolia: Hacker News search API alternatives

Algolia alternatives: every Hacker News search API plan compared

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.

This planAlgolia, free, GET /api/v1/searchAnyAPI, free trial keyAnysite, freeMonocrawl, freeParse, freeQuanticData, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness100%100%100%100%100%100%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough for7,200,000 calls a monthabout 33 calls, once200 pages150 pages, once200 callsnot published
Freshnessunknownunknownliveunknownlivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone 18 or over, with no account, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party listanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction, who has not had a credit plan before, starting the trial takes a cardanyone with a verified, non-disposable emailanyone of legal age to enter into the Terms of Service, or acting for an organization they have the legal authority to bindanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-02.

  1. hn.algolia.com/about
  2. hn.algolia.com/api
  3. algolia.com/policies/terms

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
Score
Overall score90.9
Price score100
Accuracy score100
Cost to get started score100
Bundle score0
Performance score100
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchHN Search provides real-time full-text search for the HackerNews community site.
Data
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Pay$0
Enough for7,200,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second2.78
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.13 s
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: query, tags, numericFilters, page, hitsPerPage, restrictSearchableAttributes
MethodGET
Path/api/v1/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, title, link URL, author username, score, comment count, text, tags, total results

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