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

> Hacker 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.

FiatDock's x402 pay per call plan for the Hacker News search API costs $2.70 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 4 fields. FiatDock's docs list all 4: Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
We haven't run FiatDock through [our Hacker News search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt) 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](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/fiatdock/pay-as-you-go
- [Hacker News search API: the 6 best of 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://fiatdock.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://fiatdock.com/v1/news/hackernews`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://fiatdock.com/tools/hn_search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: FiatDock (https://fiatdock.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $2.70
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Most per search: 50
- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Hacker 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

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Per second: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: query, sort, type, sinceHours, limit
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/news/hackernews

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## FiatDock's plans (1)

- [FiatDock, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/fiatdock/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $2.70 per 1,000, 100% complete, live

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

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

## FiatDock's APIs (4)

- [FiatDock: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/fiatdock/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [FiatDock: email verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/fiatdock/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [FiatDock: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/fiatdock/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [FiatDock: Hacker News search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/fiatdock/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## FiatDock: Hacker News search API alternatives

- [Social Fetch, $59 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/social-fetch/59-pack/llms.txt): $2.36 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapingIsNotACrime, $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/25-pack/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [SocialCrawl, £299 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/socialcrawl/299-pack/llms.txt): $2.658 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ProLevelMax, $5,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/prolevelmax/5000-pack/llms.txt): $2.727 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 2026-11-09.

- https://fiatdock.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://fiatdock.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://fiatdock.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://fiatdock.com/privacy.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://fiatdock.com/terms.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://fiatdock.com/tools?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://fiatdock.com/tools/hn_search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing