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Mentio pricing: Hacker News search API

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75% complete: 3 of the 4 fields on our checklistSee the 4 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Mentio through our Hacker News search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 94 plans for Hacker News search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.985 or less per 1,000 searches. See the best free Hacker News search API plan.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 Mentio plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Welcome credit one of Mentio's 3 plans
Call: POST /v1/searches Mentio's only call for this API
API: Hacker News search API one of Mentio's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Mentio searches Hacker News when you call the API.
  • 3 of the 4 fields on our checklist. Text, Engagement, Author.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $5.80 of credit once, enough for 29 calls. Calls stop once your credit runs out. Credit never expires.
  • One call. You send term to POST /v1/searches. You set the Content-Type header to "application/json". You can also send range, platforms, kind, context and the idempotency-key header. The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Who can get it: anyone able to form a binding contract, once per person. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Mentio: Hacker News search API alternatives

Mentio alternatives: other Hacker News search API providers by price

The table starts with Mentio's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Mentio's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Mentio, top-up from $20Social Fetch, $14 packAnysite, $49 monthlyParse, $30 monthlyBuska, $99 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$200.00$14.00$16.333$30.00$198.00
Completeness75%100%100%100%75%
Billingpay firstpay firstmonthlymonthlymonthly
Pay$20$14$49$30$99
Enough for100 calls1,000 pages3,000 pages a month1,000 calls a month500 pages a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone able to form a binding contract, paying by cardanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind itanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdictionanyone of legal age to enter into the Terms of Service, or acting for an organization they have the legal authority to bindany legal entity or professional acting in a business capacity

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

  1. docs.mentio.dev/api/searches/create-search
  2. docs.mentio.dev/api/searches/list-search-results
  3. docs.mentio.dev/billing
  4. docs.mentio.dev/llms.txt
  5. docs.mentio.dev/rate-limits
  6. mentio.dev
  7. mentio.dev/api
  8. mentio.dev/pricing
  9. mentio.dev/pricing.md
  10. mentio.dev/terms

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, not in the answer
  • Engagement
  • Author
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search25
Also pays for99 other Mentio calls · from the same budget: Track a keyword
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000 calls that find nothing$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch a term over the last 24 hours, 7 or 30 days, without a keyword.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataUse the service only for lawful purposes. Do not resell or redistribute the monitored content as a data product, the service is for your organization's own listening and engagement. Do not use Mentio to harass, dox, or surveil individuals, or in ways that violate the terms of the monitored platforms. Do not probe, overload, or disrupt the service, respect documented API limits.
Plan
Pay$0
You get$5.80
Enough for29 calls, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second10
Batch1
Speed
Answerby polling
The call
You sendterm, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: range, platforms, kind, context, idempotency-key header
MethodPOST
Path/v1/searches
About the plan
PlanWelcome credit
Who can get itanyone able to form a binding contract, once per person
The 36 fields the plan's answer can hold

platform, post type, permalink, title, text, image, links, created at, like count, repost count, reply count, quote count, view count, bookmark count, reply to author, reply to post URL, reply to text, author ID, author name, author username, author URL, author picture, author followers, author influence, relevance score, sentiment, intents, automated, language, classifier confidence, classifier note, relevant, already in workspace, result ID, search ID, next cursor

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