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BESS x402 pricing: Hacker News search API

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100% complete: all 4 fields on our checklistSee the 4 fields
$3.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run BESS x402 through our Hacker News search API benchmark yet.We rank 90 plans for Hacker News search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.925 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 43% of the 90 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.
Type a number to see the cheapest BESS x402 plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: x402 pay per call BESS x402's only plan
Call: GET /v1/news/hackernews BESS x402's only call for this API
API: Hacker News search API one of BESS x402's 13 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 buy first. You pay per call.
  • One call. You call GET /v1/news/hackernews. Every input is optional: q, sort, limit.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

BESS x402: Hacker News search API alternatives

BESS x402 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 planBESS x402, pay as you goReplyNodes, $99 monthlyProLevelMax, top-up2s.io, pay as you goSouthPow Media, pay as you go
$ per 1,000 searches$3.00$2.97$3.00$3.00$3.00
Completeness100%0%100%100%75%
Billingpay as you gomonthlypay firstpay as you gopay as you go
Payper call$99any amountper callper call
Enough foras many as you pay forabout 33,333 calls a monthas many as you pay foras many as you pay foras many as you pay for
Freshnessunknownunknownliveunknownunknown
Who can get itanyone with a wallet paying USDC on Base, Polygon or Arbitrum (x402), no account or API keyanyone at least 18 years old and capable of forming a binding contractanyone with an account, one account per person, topping up by card (USD) or Alipay (CNY)anyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base or Solana, paying each call over x402, with no account or API keyanyone with a wallet paying each call in USDC (x402 on Base or Solana, or MPP on Tempo), with no account or API key

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.

  1. api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources
  2. bess-x402.onrender.com
  3. bess-x402.onrender.com/.well-known/x402
  4. bess-x402.onrender.com/docs
  5. bess-x402.onrender.com/openapi.json

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$3.00
Percall
Billingpay as you go
Charges
Most per search100
Also pays fornothing else
In their words
Their pitchHacker News stories by keyword (by relevance or newest) or the current front page: title, link, points, comment count, author, time and discussion URL. Use to see what developers are discussing about a topic.
Data
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Payper call
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: q, sort, limit
MethodGET
Path/v1/news/hackernews
About the plan
Planx402 pay per call
Who can get itanyone with a wallet paying USDC on Base, Polygon or Arbitrum (x402), no account or API key
The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

search query, sort order, results returned, title, link URL, score, comment count, author username, created at, permalink

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