# Buska, free: Hacker News search API

> Search for social mentions by keyword and platform.

Buska's Hacker News search API on its Free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 3 of the 4 key fields we check: Text, Engagement, Author.
We 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](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.022.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/buska/free
- Get it: https://www.buska.io/docs/free-trial?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.buska.io/api/v1/mentions/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.buska.io/docs/free-trial?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.buska.io/docs/api/mentions-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Buska (https://www.buska.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 75%
- Text: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 50
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 50
- Also pays for: from the same budget: POST /v1/leads/score · GET /v1/signals

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search for social mentions by keyword and platform.

## Data

- 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.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 10 requests
- Enough for: 10 pages
- Expires: 7 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: keyword, platform "hackernews". Optional: limit
- Method: POST
- Path: /mentions/search

## About the plan

- 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

## Buska's plans (9)

- [Buska, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/buska/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [Buska, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/buska/50-pack/llms.txt): $50.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [Buska, $500 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/buska/500-pack/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [Buska, $3,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/buska/3000-pack/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [Buska, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/buska/99-monthly/llms.txt): $198.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [Buska, $249 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/buska/249-monthly/llms.txt): $99.60 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [Buska, $990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/buska/990-yearly/llms.txt): $165.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [Buska, $2,490 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/buska/2490-yearly/llms.txt): $83.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [Buska, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/buska/contact-us/llms.txt): 75% complete, live

## Buska's calls (1)

- `POST /mentions/search`: [Buska, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/buska/free/llms.txt)

## Buska's APIs (2)

- [Buska: Hacker News search API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/buska/free/llms.txt)
- [Buska: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/buska/free/llms.txt)

## Buska: Hacker News search API alternatives

- [ProLevelMax, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/prolevelmax/top-up/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapingIsNotACrime, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/5-pack/llms.txt): $3.333 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Anysite, $549 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/anysite/549-monthly/llms.txt): $6.459 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [SocialCrawl, £15 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/socialcrawl/15-pack/llms.txt): $8.001 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 2026-11-04.

- https://www.buska.io/docs/api/authentication?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://www.buska.io/docs/api/mentions-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://www.buska.io/docs/api/usage?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://www.buska.io/docs/free-trial?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://www.buska.io/docs/plans-and-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://www.buska.io/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://www.buska.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://www.buska.io/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing