# Mentionkit, free: Hacker News search API

> Mentionkit gives you Hacker News monitoring and keyword alerts so you can find useful technical discussions and respond when you can help.

Mentionkit's Hacker News search API on its 14-day free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. Mentionkit's docs list 3 of the 4 fields on our checklist: Text, Engagement, Author.
Mentionkit limits how many pages you get but gives no number.
We haven't run Mentionkit through [our Hacker News search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt) 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.](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt)
[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.
[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 [AnyAPI](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/anyapi/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) are the best Hacker News search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/mentionkit/free
- [Hacker News search API: the 3 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://mentionkit.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.mentionkit.com/api/v1/mentions`
- API key: with the plan, on https://mentionkit.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://mentionkit.com/docs/get-api-v1-mentions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Mentionkit (https://mentionkit.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 75%
- Text: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 250
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: List keywords · Get organization and project usage overview · List projects · Update mention status

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Mentionkit gives you Hacker News monitoring and keyword alerts so you can find useful technical discussions and respond when you can help.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Citations, 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
- Expires: 14 days

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: sort, cursor, limit, projectId, category, platform, score, keywords, tags, startdate, enddate
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v1/mentions

## About the plan

- Plan: 14-day free trial
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## Mentionkit's plans (3)

- [Mentionkit, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/mentionkit/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, stored
- [Mentionkit, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/mentionkit/49-monthly/llms.txt): no limit, 75% complete, stored
- [Mentionkit, $490 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/mentionkit/490-yearly/llms.txt): no limit, 75% complete, stored

## Mentionkit's calls (1)

- `GET /api/v1/mentions`: [Mentionkit, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/mentionkit/free/llms.txt)

## Mentionkit's APIs (2)

- [Mentionkit: Hacker News search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/mentionkit/free/llms.txt)
- [Mentionkit: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/mentionkit/free/llms.txt)

## Mentionkit: Hacker News search API alternatives

- [Algolia, free, GET /api/v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/algolia/free-get-api-v1-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Scrappa, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrappa/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [AnyAPI, free trial key](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/anyapi/free-trial-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Monocrawl, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/monocrawl/free/llms.txt): $0.00 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 2026-11-07.

- https://mentionkit.com/docs/authentication?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://mentionkit.com/docs/do-i-need-a-credit-card-to-start?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://mentionkit.com/docs/get-api-v1-keywords?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://mentionkit.com/docs/get-api-v1-me?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://mentionkit.com/docs/get-api-v1-mentions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://mentionkit.com/docs/get-api-v1-projects?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://mentionkit.com/docs/post-api-v1-mentions-id?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://mentionkit.com/docs/webhooks?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://mentionkit.com/docs/which-plan-should-i-choose?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://mentionkit.com/hacker-news-monitoring?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://mentionkit.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://mentionkit.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing