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API.SH pricing: Hacker News search API

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100% complete: all 4 fields on our checklistSee the 4 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run API.SH through our Hacker News search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 81 plans for Hacker News search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.658 or less per 1,000 searches. See the best free Hacker News search API plan.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.
Type a number to see the cheapest API.SH plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of API.SH's 8 plans
Call: GET /hackernews/v1/search API.SH's only call for this API
API: Hacker News search API one of API.SH's 99 APIs

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 pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 1,000 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits don't roll over.
  • One call. You call GET /hackernews/v1/search. Every input is optional: query, tags, author, story_id, sort, start, end, min_points, min_comments, page, limit.
  • Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over with a working email address. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

API.SH: Hacker News search API alternatives

API.SH alternatives: other Hacker News search API providers by price

The table starts with API.SH's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to API.SH's.

API.SH, $50 monthlyScrappa, pay as you goScrapeMole, pay as you goAgentUtility, pay as you go, Pay per call (x402), POST /hacker-news-searchSocial Fetch, $2,430 yearly
$ per 1,000 searches$1.00$1.00$1.00$1.00$1.35
Completeness100%100%100%100%100%
Billingmonthlypay as you gopay as you gopay as you goyearly
Pay$50per callper callper call$2,430
Enough for50,000 pages a monthas many as you pay for1 callas many as you pay for150,000 pages a month
Freshnessunknownunknownliveunknownlive
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over with a working email addressanyone 18 or overanyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base or Solanaanyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC on Base or Solana from a wallet (x402)anyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind it

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.

  1. api.sh
  2. api.sh/docs/billing
  3. api.sh/docs/errors
  4. api.sh/docs/hackernews-search
  5. api.sh/legal/acceptable-use
  6. api.sh/legal/terms
  7. api.sh/pricing

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
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Perpage of 100
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 6,019 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchFull-text search of Hacker News stories and comments: title, URL, text, author, points, comment count, time, parent and story ids and a link to the discussion.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may not: resell or provide raw access to the Service as a competing API without our written agreement, attempt to get around credits, limits or security, interfere with the Service or other customers, reverse engineer the Service except where the law allows, or use the Service in breach of the Acceptable Use Policy.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits a month
Enough for1,000 pages a month
Expiresunused credits don't roll over
Rate limit
Concurrentno limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: query, tags, author, story_id, sort, start, end, min_points, min_comments, page, limit
MethodGET
Path/hackernews/v1/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over with a working email address
The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

search query, tags, sort order, page number, page size, total results, results returned, has more, next page, post ID, post type, title, link URL, text, author username, score, comment count, created at, permalink

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