Buska pricing: Hacker News search API
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75% complete: 3 of the 4 key fields we checkSee the 4 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Buska through our Hacker News search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 52 plans for Hacker News search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.577 per 1,000 searches or less.Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.022.
Plan: Free trial one of Buska's 9 plans
- FreeFree trial$0.00 per 1,000
- $50 packDeveloper$50.00 per 1,000
- $500 packProduction$10.00 per 1,000
- $3,000 packBusiness$6.00 per 1,000
- $99 monthlyGrowth$198.00 per 1,000
- $249 monthlyScale$99.60 per 1,000
- $990 yearlyGrowth$165.00 per 1,000
- $2,490 yearlyScale$83.00 per 1,000
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Call:
POST / Buska's only callAPI: Hacker News search API one of Buska's 2 APIs
About this item
- Live. Buska searches Hacker News when you call the API.
- 3 of the 4 key fields we check. Text, Engagement, Author.
- Nothing to pay. You get 10 requests, enough for 10 pages. Calls stop once your requests run out. Unused requests expire after 7 days.
- One call. You send
keywordtoPOST /. You setmentions/ search platformto "hackernews". You can also sendlimit. The call returns the stories Hacker News finds for the query. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Buska: Hacker News search API alternatives
Buska alternatives: every Hacker News search API plan compared
The table starts with Buska's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Buska's. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| Buska, $3,000 pack | ProLevelMax, top-up | ScrapingIsNotACrime, $5 pack | Anysite, $549 monthly | SocialCrawl, £15 pack | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 searches | $6.00 | $3.00 | $3.333 | $6.459 | $8.001 |
| Completeness | 75% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Billing | pay first | pay first | pay first | monthly | pay first |
| Pay | $3,000 | any amount | $5 | $549 | £15 |
| Enough for | 500,000 pages | as many as you pay for | 1,500 pages | 85,000 pages a month | 2,500 pages |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | any legal entity or professional acting in a business capacity | anyone with an account, one account per person, topping up by card (USD) or Alipay (CNY) | anyone | anyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction | anyone 18 or over |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.
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, not in the answer
- Engagement
- Author
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | page of 50 |
| Billing | free |
| Most per search | 50 |
|---|---|
| Also pays for | from the same budget: POST /v1/leads/score · GET /v1/signals |
| Units cap | hard |
|---|
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
|---|
| Their pitch | Search for social mentions by keyword and platform. |
|---|
| Freshness | live |
|---|---|
| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | The Service is intended for professional and business use only. By using the Service, the Client agrees not to: Resell, sublicense, or redistribute access to the Service without prior written authorization from Fibroweb SAS. Use the Service to send unsolicited messages (spam) or engage in any form of abusive outreach. Scrape, crawl, or extract data from the Service beyond the scope of authorized use as defined by the Client's subscription plan. Upload, store, or transmit any malware, viruses, or malicious code through the Service. Interfere with, disrupt, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service, its infrastructure, or other users' accounts. Use the Service in any manner that violates the rights of third parties, including intellectual property rights and privacy rights. |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 10 requests |
| Enough for | 10 pages |
| Expires | 7 days |
| Per second | 1 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
|---|
| You send | keyword, platform "hackernews". Optional: limit |
|---|---|
| Method | POST |
| Path | /mentions/search |
| Plan | Free trial |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | any legal entity or professional acting in a business capacity, one free trial for each email address |
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold
post ID, permalink, text, author username, created at, comment count, results returned