F5Bot pricing: Hacker News search API
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$214.99 monthlyWe haven't run F5Bot through our Hacker News search API benchmark yet.This plan costs $214.99 a month. We rank 81 plans for Hacker News search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.658 or less per 1,000 searches.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.
Plan: Platinum one of F5Bot's 3 plans
Call:
POST / F5Bot's only callAPI: Hacker News search API one of F5Bot's 2 APIs
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 2 of the 4 fields on our checklist. Text, Author.
- A monthly subscription. You pay $214.99 a month. F5Bot limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
- One call. You send
keywordtoPOST /. You set theapi/ create-alert Content-Typeheader to "application/json". You can also sendflagsandenabled. The provider sends the answer only to your webhook. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
F5Bot: Hacker News search API alternatives
F5Bot alternatives: other Hacker News search API providers by price
We list other providers' plans billed monthly. These plans come closest to this plan in number of key fields.
| This planF5Bot, $214.99 monthly | Octolens, $199 monthly | QuanticData, $19 monthly | Mentionkit, $49 monthly | Browsable, $19 monthly | |
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| $ per 1,000 searches | not published | not published | not published | no limit | not published |
| Completeness | 50% | 50% | 100% | 75% | 50% |
| Billing | monthly | monthly | monthly | monthly | monthly |
| Pay | $214.99 | $199 | $19 | $49 | $19 |
| Enough for | not published | not published | not published | no limit | not published |
| Freshness | unknown | unknown | live | stored | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone of legal age to form a binding contract and not barred from the service under United States or other jurisdictions' laws | anyone: a natural person over 18, a legal person or an organizational unit | anyone | anyone who registers an account with a valid email address, not a throwaway email provider, one person to an account | anyone |
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.
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, not in the answer
- Author
| Per | call |
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| Billing | monthly |
| $ a month | $214.99 |
| Also pays for | GET /api/get-alerts · POST /api/update-alert · POST /api/delete-alert |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Track your brand and competitors on Hacker News. |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | Unpaid accounts and publicly advertised subscription plans are licensed for your own internal use only, whether personal or within your own organization. On such accounts and plans, you may not resell, sublicense, white-label, rebrand, or otherwise redistribute the Service, or any alerts, data or other output derived from the Service, to third parties as part of a commercial offering. Reselling or redistributing the Service is permitted only under a separately negotiated written contract with F5Bot LLC. [...] Keywords and alerts must be reasonably related to your own genuine monitoring interest, such as your name, brand, products, competitors, or topics you follow. You may not register keywords, phrases, or filters that are so generic or common that they are designed or reasonably likely to match all, or a substantial portion, of the content on a monitored site. Using the Service to broadly harvest, scrape, or mirror a site's content, rather than to monitor for specific mentions of interest, is prohibited |
| Pay | $214.99 |
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| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | by webhook |
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| You send | keyword, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: flags, enabled |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /api/create-alert |
| Plan | Platinum |
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| Who can get it | anyone of legal age to form a binding contract and not barred from the service under United States or other jurisdictions' laws |
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold
record ID, permalink, title, content HTML, text HTML, published, alert group, author username, record tags