# Kadec0, pay as you go: Hacker News search API

> 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.

Kadec0's x402 pay per call plan for the Hacker News search API costs $20.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 4 fields. Kadec0's docs list all 4: Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
We haven't run Kadec0 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 8% 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/kadec0/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://api.kadec0.xyz/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.kadec0.xyz/v1/hackernews`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://api.kadec0.xyz/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing#/default/handler_v1_hackernews_get
- Sold by: Kadec0 (https://api.kadec0.xyz?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: $20.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- 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.

## 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
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/hackernews

## About the plan

- 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

## Kadec0's plans (1)

- [Kadec0, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/kadec0/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 100% complete

## Kadec0's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/hackernews`: [Kadec0, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/kadec0/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

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- [Kadec0: GitHub repository API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/kadec0/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Kadec0: Hacker News search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/kadec0/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Kadec0: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/kadec0/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Kadec0: tech stack API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/kadec0/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Kadec0: email verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/kadec0/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
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- [Kadec0: web search API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/serp-batch](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/kadec0/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-v1-serp-batch/llms.txt)
- [Kadec0: web search API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/serp-multi](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/kadec0/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-v1-serp-multi/llms.txt)
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- [Kadec0: web search API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/serp](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/kadec0/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-v1-serp/llms.txt)
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- [Kadec0: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan, GET /v1/domain-age-check](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/kadec0/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-v1-domain-age-check/llms.txt)
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## Kadec0: Hacker News search API alternatives

- [Anysite, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/anysite/49-monthly/llms.txt): $16.333 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [TrendsConnector, $49 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/trendsconnector/49-pack/llms.txt): $19.60 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Trends MCP, $49 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/trends-mcp/49-pack/llms.txt): $19.60 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Parse, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/parse/100-monthly/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [UnifAPI, top-up, Pay-as-you-go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/unifapi/top-up-pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $50.00 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://api.kadec0.xyz/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://api.kadec0.xyz/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://api.kadec0.xyz/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://api.kadec0.xyz/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing