# Algolia, free, GET /api/v1/search: Hacker News search API

> HN Search provides real-time full-text search for the HackerNews community site.

Algolia's Hacker News search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns all 4 key fields we check: Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
You get up to 7,200,000 calls a month.
Half 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.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/algolia/free-get-api-v1-search
- Get it: https://hn.algolia.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://hn.algolia.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Algolia (https://www.algolia.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-02

## In the answer

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

## Score

- Overall score: 90.9
- Price score: 100
- Accuracy score: 100
- Cost to get started score: 100
- Bundle score: 0
- Performance score: 100

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: HN Search provides real-time full-text search for the HackerNews community site.

## Data

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

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: 7,200,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 2.78

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.13 s

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: query, tags, numericFilters, page, hitsPerPage, restrictSearchableAttributes
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

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

## Algolia's plans (1)

- [Algolia, free, GET /api/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/algolia/free-get-api-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete

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

- `GET /api/v1/search`: [Algolia, free, GET /api/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/algolia/free-get-api-v1-search/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/v1/search_by_date`: [Algolia, free, GET /api/v1/search_by_date](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/algolia/free-get-api-v1-search-by-date/llms.txt)

## Algolia's APIs (2)

- [Algolia: Hacker News comment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/algolia/free/llms.txt)
- [Algolia: Hacker News search API pricing, 1 plan, GET /api/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/algolia/free-get-api-v1-search/llms.txt)

## Algolia: Hacker News search API alternatives

- [AnyAPI, free trial key](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/anyapi/free-trial-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Anysite, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/anysite/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Monocrawl, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/monocrawl/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Parse, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/parse/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [QuanticData, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/quanticdata/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live

## 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.

- https://hn.algolia.com/about?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://hn.algolia.com/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://www.algolia.com/policies/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing