Monocrawl pricing and alternatives: Hacker News search API

Name: Monocrawl Hacker News search API
Brand: Monocrawl
Price: 19 USD

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100% complete: all 4 key fields we checkSee the 4 fields

$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 41 plans by price. Scrappa's $500 pack costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.238.

Plan: Free one of Monocrawl's 13 plans

Call: GET /v1/hackernews/search Monocrawl's only call for this API

API: Hacker News search API one of Monocrawl's 49 APIs

About this item

Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
All 4 key fields we check. Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
Nothing to pay. You get 150 credits once, enough for 150 pages. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
One call. You send query to GET /v1/hackernews/search. You can also send tags, numericFilters, hitsPerPage, page and cursor. The call returns the stories Hacker News finds for the query.
Who can get it: anyone with a verified, non-disposable email. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: with conditions.

The table starts with Monocrawl's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Monocrawl's.

	Monocrawl, $7,668 yearly	Scrappa, pay as you go	AnyAPI, top-up from $10	Social Fetch, $29 monthly	ScrapingIsNotACrime, $199 pack
$ per 1,000 searches	$1.597	$1.00	$1.50	$1.611	$1.658
Completeness	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%
Billing	yearly	pay as you go	pay first	monthly	pay first
Pay	$7,668	per call	$10	$29	$199
Enough for	400,000 pages a month	as many as you pay for	about 6,666 calls	18,000 pages a month	120,000 pages
Freshness	unknown	unknown	unknown	live	live
Who can get it	anyone	anyone 18 or over	anyone 18 or over, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list	anyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind it	anyone

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-02.

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: 650 other calls

Overage
Units cap	hard

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Full-text search over Hacker News stories and comments with tag and numeric filters, via the Algolia HN index.

Data
Keep data	no API terms
Use data	Customer responsibilities, its Public data page: "Establish and document a lawful purpose and data-protection basis for your own collection, enrichment, storage, combination, disclosure and decision-making. [...] Use proportionate retention and security, avoid collecting unnecessary personal information, and do not republish a raw response merely because it was technically retrievable. Respect platform terms and third-party intellectual-property or contractual restrictions that apply to you. Do not attempt to turn public endpoints into access to private, deleted, paywalled or access-controlled material."

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	query. Optional: tags, numericFilters, hitsPerPage, page, cursor
Method	GET
Path	/v1/hackernews/search

About the plan
Plan	Free
Who can get it	anyone with a verified, non-disposable email

The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, post type, title, link URL, permalink, author username, score, comment count, text, created at, results returned