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Mentionkit 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 Mentionkit through our Hacker News search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 66 plans for Hacker News search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.656 per 1,000 searches or less. 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.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 AnyAPI are the best Hacker News search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest Mentionkit plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: 14-day free trial one of Mentionkit's 3 plans
Call: GET /api/v1/mentions Mentionkit's only call
API: Hacker News search API one of Mentionkit's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. You get stories Mentionkit saved earlier. Mentionkit doesn't say how old the data is.
  • 3 of the 4 fields on our checklist. Text, Engagement, Author.
  • Nothing to pay. Mentionkit limits how many pages you get but gives no number.
  • One call. You call GET /api/v1/mentions. Every input is optional: sort, cursor, limit, projectId, category, platform, score, keywords, tags, startdate, enddate.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Mentionkit: Hacker News search API alternatives

Mentionkit alternatives: other Hacker News search API providers by price

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.

This planMentionkit, freeAlgolia, free, GET /api/v1/searchScrappa, freeAnyAPI, free trial keyMonocrawl, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness75%100%100%100%100%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot publishednot published500 calls a monthabout 33 calls, once150 pages, once
Freshnessstoredunknownunknownunknownunknown
Who can get itanyone who registers an account with a valid email address, not a throwaway email provider, one person to an account, no credit cardanyoneanyone 18 or overanyone 18 or over, with no account, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party listanyone with a verified, non-disposable email

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

  1. mentionkit.com/docs/authentication
  2. mentionkit.com/docs/do-i-need-a-credit-card-to-start
  3. mentionkit.com/docs/get-api-v1-keywords
  4. mentionkit.com/docs/get-api-v1-me
  5. mentionkit.com/docs/get-api-v1-mentions
  6. mentionkit.com/docs/get-api-v1-projects
  7. mentionkit.com/docs/post-api-v1-mentions-id
  8. mentionkit.com/docs/webhooks
  9. mentionkit.com/docs/which-plan-should-i-choose
  10. mentionkit.com/hacker-news-monitoring
  11. mentionkit.com/pricing
  12. mentionkit.com/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
Perpage of 250
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forList keywords · Get organization and project usage overview · List projects · Update mention status
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchMentionkit gives you Hacker News monitoring and keyword alerts so you can find useful technical discussions and respond when you can help.
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep datano limit
Use dataCitations, images, and paraphrasing may only be published elsewhere to a limited extent, and only if crediting the respective owners (Copyright Holders). [...] You must not: Use Mentionkit to violate all or any legal rights of any person or other entity in any jurisdiction. Use Mentionkit to develop a product or service that competes with Mentionkit. Use Mentionkit to modify, copy, prepare derivative works of, decompile or reverse engineer any content or software contained in Mentionkit, except to the extent this paragraph is not permitted under non-excludable applicable law. Sell, license or exploit for any commercial purposes, any third-party owned IPR that you obtain from Mentionkit, except where you otherwise have the consent of the owner of the IPR therein to do so. Sell, license or exploit for any commercial purposes any of Our IPR. Resell access to Mentionkit or to any of the functionality made available in Mentionkit. Use any scraper, robot, spider, crawler or other automated device to copy any part of, or content on, Mentionkit. Use Mentionkit in relation to crimes such as theft and fraud. Use Mentionkit in breach of laws relating to the protection of copyright, trade secrets, patents or other IPR and laws relating to spam or privacy. [...] Allow use of your Mentionkit account by any other person. [...]
Plan
Pay$0
Expires14 days
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: sort, cursor, limit, projectId, category, platform, score, keywords, tags, startdate, enddate
MethodGET
Path/api/v1/mentions
About the plan
Plan14-day free trial
Who can get itanyone who registers an account with a valid email address, not a throwaway email provider, one person to an account, no credit card
The 23 fields the plan's answer can hold

result ID, platform, search query, project ID, tracker ID, author username, text, language, created at, scraped at, permalink, post ID, relevance score, relevance reason, reply angle, likes, comment count, AI tags, review status, project name, next cursor, page size, sort order

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