Kadec0 pricing: Hacker News search API
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100% complete: all 4 fields on our checklistSee the 4 fields
$20.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Kadec0 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 8% 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.
Plan: x402 pay per call Kadec0's only plan
Call:
GET / Kadec0's only call for this APIAPI: Hacker News search API one of Kadec0's 9 APIs
- GitHub repository API
- Hacker News search API
- Company enrichment API
- Tech stack API
- Email verification API
- Related keywords API
- Web scraping API
- Web search API
GET /v1/ serp-batch - Web search API
GET /v1/ serp-multi - Web search API
GET /v1/ serp-read - Web search API
GET /v1/ serp - Domain WHOIS API
GET /v1/ whois-bulk - Domain WHOIS API
GET /v1/ domain-age-check - Domain WHOIS API
GET /v1/ domain-info
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- All 4 fields on our checklist. Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
- Nothing to buy first. You pay per call.
- One call. You send
qtoGET /. You setv1/ hackernews modeto "search". The call returns the stories Hacker News finds for the query. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.
Kadec0: Hacker News search API alternatives
Kadec0 alternatives: other Hacker News search API providers by price
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches. We also show the UnifAPI plan. Its price is farther from this plan's price.
| This planKadec0, pay as you go | Anysite, $49 monthly | TrendsConnector, $49 pack | Trends MCP, $49 pack | Parse, $100 monthly | UnifAPI, top-up, Pay-as-you-go | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 searches | $20.00 | $16.333 | $19.60 | $19.60 | $20.00 | $50.00 |
| Completeness | 100% | 100% | 100% | 75% | 100% | 100% |
| Billing | pay as you go | monthly | pay first | pay first | monthly | pay first |
| Pay | per call | $49 | $49 | $49 | $100 | any amount |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | 3,000 pages a month | 2,500 calls | 2,500 calls | 5,000 calls a month | as many as you pay for |
| Freshness | unknown | live | unknown | unknown | live | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone with a wallet paying each call in USDC on Base (x402), with no account or API key | anyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction | anyone aged 18 or over with a TrendsConnector account | anyone aged 18 or over with a Trends MCP account (sign up with an email and an 8-digit code, no card) | anyone of legal age to enter into the Terms of Service, or acting for an organization they have the legal authority to bind | 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 2026-11-09.
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
| $ per 1,000 searches | $20.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | pay as you go |
| Also pays for | nothing else |
|---|
| Their pitch | Hacker News feed. Top, new, and best front-page stories plus full-text story search - titles, scores, comment counts, and author for tech and startup news. |
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| Keep data | no API terms |
|---|---|
| Use data | no API terms |
| Pay | per call |
|---|
| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
|---|
| You send | mode "search", q |
|---|---|
| Method | GET |
| Path | /v1/hackernews |
| Plan | x402 pay per call |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone with a wallet paying each call in USDC on Base (x402), with no account or API key |
The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold
title, link URL, score, comment count, author username