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FiatDock pricing: Hacker News search API

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100% complete: all 4 fields on our checklistSee the 4 fields
$2.70per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run FiatDock through our Hacker News search API benchmark yet.We rank 90 plans for Hacker News search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.925 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 51% of the 90 plans.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.
Type a number to see the cheapest FiatDock plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: x402 pay per call FiatDock's only plan
Call: POST /v1/news/hackernews FiatDock's only call for this API
API: Hacker News search API one of FiatDock's 4 APIs

About this item

  • Live. FiatDock searches Hacker News when you call the API.
  • All 4 fields on our checklist. Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
  • Nothing to buy first. You pay per call.
  • One call. You call POST /v1/news/hackernews. Every input is optional: query, sort, type, sinceHours, limit.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

FiatDock: Hacker News search API alternatives

FiatDock alternatives: other Hacker News search API providers by price

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planFiatDock, pay as you goSocial Fetch, $59 packScrapingIsNotACrime, $25 packSocialCrawl, £299 packProLevelMax, $5,000 pack
$ per 1,000 searches$2.70$2.36$2.50$2.658$2.727
Completeness100%100%100%100%100%
Billingpay as you gopay firstpay firstpay firstpay first
Payper call$59$25£299$5,000
Enough foras many as you pay for25,000 pages10,000 pages150,000 pagesabout 1,833,333 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over (or an entity they lawfully represent), with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC on Base or Solana (x402), its terms and footer say it is not available in the restricted jurisdictions they listanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind itanyoneanyone 18 or overanyone who sends the Contact sales form (company, work email, top-up amount, use case), paid by bank transfer and invoiced

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.

  1. fiatdock.com/docs
  2. fiatdock.com/openapi.json
  3. fiatdock.com/pricing
  4. fiatdock.com/privacy.html
  5. fiatdock.com/terms.html
  6. fiatdock.com/tools
  7. fiatdock.com/tools/hn_search

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
  • Engagement
  • Author
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$2.70
Percall
Billingpay as you go
Charges
Most per search50
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchHacker News stories and comments: the current front page, or a search by words (relevance or newest first), filtered by type (story, comment, Ask HN, Show HN) and time window - each with title, link, discussion link, author, points, comment count, time and the text as plain text. Via the HN Search API by Algolia.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Payper call
Rate limit
Per second2
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: query, sort, type, sinceHours, limit
MethodPOST
Path/v1/news/hackernews
About the plan
Planx402 pay per call
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over (or an entity they lawfully represent), with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC on Base or Solana (x402), its terms and footer say it is not available in the restricted jurisdictions they list
The 21 fields the plan's answer can hold

search query, sort order, post type, time window, results returned, total results, post ID, title, link URL, permalink, author username, score, comment count, created at, text, text truncated, story title, story URL, serving source, as of, note

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