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

> Hacker News stories: front-page lists (top, new, best, ask, show) or full-text search, each with title, URL, domain, points, comment count, author, time, HN link and text excerpt.

Genexxis's x402 pay per call plan for the Hacker News search API costs $5.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 4 fields. Genexxis's docs list all 4: Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
We haven't run Genexxis 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 36% 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/genexxis/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://hn.genexxis.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://hn.genexxis.com/hackernews`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://hn.genexxis.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing#/paths/~1hackernews
- Sold by: Genexxis (https://webtools.genexxis.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: $5.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Hacker News stories: front-page lists (top, new, best, ask, show) or full-text search, each with title, URL, domain, points, comment count, author, time, HN link and text excerpt.

## Data

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

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: mode "search", q. Optional: maxItems, sort, days, tags
- Method: GET
- Path: /hackernews

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base, with no account or API key, paying each call (x402)

## The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

search query, sort order, results returned, total results, result position, post ID, post type, title, link URL, link domain, score, comment count, author username, created at, permalink, text

## Genexxis's plans (1)

- [Genexxis, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/genexxis/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 100% complete

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

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

## Genexxis's APIs (7)

- [Genexxis: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/genexxis/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Genexxis: tech stack API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/genexxis/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Genexxis: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/genexxis/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Genexxis: Hacker News search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/genexxis/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Genexxis: Hacker News comment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/genexxis/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Genexxis: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan, GET /whois-bulk](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/genexxis/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-whois-bulk/llms.txt)
- [Genexxis: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan, GET /domain-info](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/genexxis/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-domain-info/llms.txt)
- [Genexxis: email verification API pricing, 1 plan, GET /email-validate, Validate a list of emails](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/genexxis/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-email-validate-validate-a-list-of-emails/llms.txt)
- [Genexxis: email verification API pricing, 1 plan, GET /email-validate, Validate one email](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/genexxis/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-email-validate-validate-one-email/llms.txt)

## Genexxis: Hacker News search API alternatives

- [Anysite, $1,199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/anysite/1199-monthly/llms.txt): $4.996 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [x402node, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/x402node/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [ReplyNodes, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/replynodes/19-monthly/llms.txt): $5.70 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapio, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrapio/299-monthly/llms.txt): $5.98 per 1,000, 100% 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 2026-11-09.

- https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://domainaudit.genexxis.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://extract.genexxis.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://hn.genexxis.com/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://hn.genexxis.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://hn.genexxis.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://webtools.genexxis.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://webtools.genexxis.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing