# Monocrawl, free: Hacker News search API

> Full-text search over Hacker News stories and comments with tag and numeric filters, via the Algolia HN index.

Monocrawl's Hacker News search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns all 4 key fields we check: Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
We rank 41 plans by price. [Scrappa's $500 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrappa/500-pack/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.238.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/monocrawl/free
- Get it: https://www.monocrawl.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://www.monocrawl.com/v1/hackernews/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.monocrawl.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.monocrawl.com/docs/endpoints/hackernews/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Monocrawl (https://www.monocrawl.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-02

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Text: ✓
- Links and tags: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: free

## 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."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 150 credits
- Enough for: 150 pages, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per day: 300
- Per second: 10
- Concurrent: 50

## 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

## Monocrawl's plans (13)

- [Monocrawl, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/monocrawl/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Monocrawl, $19 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/monocrawl/19-pack/llms.txt): $3.80 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Monocrawl, $59 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/monocrawl/59-pack/llms.txt): $2.95 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Monocrawl, $199 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/monocrawl/199-pack/llms.txt): $2.653 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Monocrawl, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/monocrawl/29-monthly/llms.txt): $2.90 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Monocrawl, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/monocrawl/99-monthly/llms.txt): $2.475 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Monocrawl, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/monocrawl/299-monthly/llms.txt): $2.215 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Monocrawl, $799 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/monocrawl/799-monthly/llms.txt): $1.998 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Monocrawl, $276 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/monocrawl/276-yearly/llms.txt): $2.30 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Monocrawl, $948 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/monocrawl/948-yearly/llms.txt): $1.975 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Monocrawl, $2,868 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/monocrawl/2868-yearly/llms.txt): $1.77 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Monocrawl, $7,668 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/monocrawl/7668-yearly/llms.txt): $1.597 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Monocrawl, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/monocrawl/contact-us/llms.txt): 100% complete

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

- `GET /v1/hackernews/search`: [Monocrawl, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/monocrawl/free/llms.txt)

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## Monocrawl: Hacker News search API alternatives

- [Scrappa, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrappa/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [AnyAPI, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/anyapi/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Social Fetch, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/social-fetch/29-monthly/llms.txt): $1.611 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ScrapingIsNotACrime, $199 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/199-pack/llms.txt): $1.658 per 1,000, 100% complete, live

## Sources

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

- https://www.monocrawl.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://www.monocrawl.com/docs/credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://www.monocrawl.com/docs/endpoint-pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://www.monocrawl.com/docs/endpoints/hackernews/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://www.monocrawl.com/docs/endpoints/linkedin/profile?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://www.monocrawl.com/docs/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://www.monocrawl.com/legal/public-data?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://www.monocrawl.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://www.monocrawl.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing