# Duoleads, pay as you go: Hacker News search API

> Hacker News Search & Stories: full-text search of Hacker News stories or comments (HN Search by Algolia). Per hit the title, text, author, points, comment count, linked URL, time and item URL in the shared social schema.

Duoleads's x402 plan for the Hacker News search API costs $10.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 4 fields. Duoleads's docs list all 4: Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
We haven't run Duoleads through [our Hacker News search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt) yet.
We rank 94 plans for Hacker News search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.985 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 23% of the 94 plans.
[Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrollhound/39-monthly/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/zapi/rp49000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: about $2.72.
[Scrollhound's $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrollhound/25-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. Scrollhound's $25 pack costs less up front than Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan.
[Algolia](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/algolia/free-get-api-v1-search/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrappa/10-pack/llms.txt) and [Social Fetch](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/social-fetch/29-monthly/llms.txt) are the best Hacker News search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/duoleads/pay-as-you-go
- [Hacker News search API in 2026: the 4 best of 40+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://social.duoleads.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://social.duoleads.com/v1/hackernews/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://social.duoleads.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing#hackernews-search
- Sold by: Duoleads (https://social.duoleads.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $10.00
- Per: page of 20
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Hacker News Search & Stories: full-text search of Hacker News stories or comments (HN Search by Algolia). Per hit the title, text, author, points, comment count, linked URL, time and item URL in the shared social schema.

## Data

- Freshness: 5 minutes
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Subject to payment and to clause 6, the Operator grants you a non-exclusive licence, to the extent the Operator holds any rights, to use the response you receive for your own lawful purposes. [...] You are responsible for complying with the terms of the platform the data came from (for example the terms of X, Reddit, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Threads, Facebook, LinkedIn, Bluesky or Hacker News) whenever you store, publish, combine or otherwise reuse the data. You may not resell or redistribute the responses in bulk as a dataset or as a substitute for the Service. [...] You warrant that you use the Service only for a lawful purpose, such as social listening, brand and market research, trend and topic analysis, journalism or research, and that you have a lawful basis for it. In particular, you may not: (a) use the Service or any output to profile, track, monitor, locate, contact, harass, target, stalk or discriminate against an individual, or to make decisions about an individual (for example about employment, credit, insurance, housing, immigration or law enforcement), (b) use any output to infer or derive special categories of personal data (racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic or biometric data, health, sex life or sexual orientation) or data about criminal convictions, about anyone, (c) use any output to train, fine-tune or evaluate an artificial intelligence or machine learning model on individuals' data, or sell or supply it to anyone for that purpose, (d) re-identify a person from aggregate or pseudonymous output, or combine outputs into a profile or dossier of a person, (e) look up private individuals who are not public figures, except where you have a lawful basis to do so and the lookup is limited to what is necessary, (f) use the Service in breach of any applicable law or sanctions measure, or on behalf of any person subject to one, (g) attempt to obtain a response without paying, replay or reuse a payment authorisation, or otherwise circumvent metering, (h) send traffic whose volume or pattern degrades the Service for others, or systematically extract the Service's outputs to build a substitute for it or a bulk archive of a platform, (i) misrepresent the Service, the Operator, our data provider or any platform as endorsing you, your product or your outputs.

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: type, limit, cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/hackernews/search

## About the plan

- Plan: x402
- Who can get it: businesses, developers and automated agents acting in the course of a trade, business, craft or profession, with a USDC wallet on Base

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

platform, fetched at, post ID, permalink, created at, text, title, author username, score, comment count, link URL, next cursor, request ID

## Duoleads's plans (1)

- [Duoleads, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/duoleads/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 5 minutes

## Duoleads's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/hackernews/search`: [Duoleads, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/duoleads/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Duoleads's APIs (4)

- [Duoleads: Bluesky post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-post-apis/duoleads/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Duoleads: Bluesky profile API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-profile-apis/duoleads/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Duoleads: Hacker News search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/duoleads/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Duoleads: Hacker News comment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/duoleads/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Duoleads: Hacker News search API alternatives

- [SocialCrawl, £15 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/socialcrawl/15-pack/llms.txt): $8.001 per 1,000, 100% 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
- [Parse, $1,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/parse/1000-monthly/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Anysite, $200 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/anysite/200-monthly/llms.txt): $10.00 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 2026-11-08.

- https://social.duoleads.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://social.duoleads.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://social.duoleads.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://social.duoleads.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://social.duoleads.com/privacy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://social.duoleads.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing