# F5Bot, $214.99 monthly: Hacker News search API

> Track your brand and competitors on Hacker News.

F5Bot's Platinum plan lets you call the Hacker News search API. We check each provider's docs for 4 fields. F5Bot's docs list 2: Text, Author.
You pay $214.99 a month. F5Bot limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
We haven't run F5Bot through [our Hacker News search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt) 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](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/f5bot/214-99-monthly
- [Hacker News search API: the 6 best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://f5bot.com/tiers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://f5bot.com/api/create-alert`
- API key: with the plan, on https://f5bot.com/tiers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://f5bot.com/docs-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: F5Bot (https://f5bot.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Text: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- Per: call
- Billing: monthly
- $ a month: $214.99

## Charges

- Also pays for: GET /api/get-alerts · POST /api/update-alert · POST /api/delete-alert

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Track your brand and competitors on Hacker News.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- 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

## Plan

- Pay: $214.99

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by webhook

## The call

- You send: keyword, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: flags, enabled
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/create-alert

## About the plan

- Plan: Platinum
- 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

## F5Bot's plans (3)

- [F5Bot, $214.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/f5bot/214-99-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [F5Bot, $2,364 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/f5bot/2364-yearly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [F5Bot, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/f5bot/contact-us/llms.txt): 50% complete

## F5Bot's calls (1)

- `POST /api/create-alert`: [F5Bot, $214.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/f5bot/214-99-monthly/llms.txt)

## F5Bot's APIs (2)

- [F5Bot: Hacker News search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/f5bot/214-99-monthly/llms.txt)
- [F5Bot: Reddit post API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/f5bot/214-99-monthly/llms.txt)

## F5Bot: Hacker News search API alternatives

- [Octolens, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/octolens/199-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [QuanticData, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/quanticdata/19-monthly/llms.txt): 100% complete, live
- [Mentionkit, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/mentionkit/49-monthly/llms.txt): no limit, 75% complete, stored
- [Browsable, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/browsable/19-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete

## 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://f5bot.com/docs-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://f5bot.com/docs-power?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://f5bot.com/faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://f5bot.com/guides?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://f5bot.com/guides/hacker-news-keyword-alerts?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://f5bot.com/guides/reddit-search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://f5bot.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://f5bot.com/tiers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing