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Octolens pricing: Hacker News search API

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50% complete: 2 of the 4 key fields we checkSee the 4 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Octolens through our Hacker News search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 51 plans for Hacker News search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.653 per 1,000 searches or less.Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.022.
Plan: 7-day free trial one of Octolens's 7 plans
Call: POST /api/v2/search Octolens's only call
API: Hacker News search API one of Octolens's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 2 of the 4 key fields we check. Text, Author.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 5,000 results. Unused results expire after 7 days.
  • One call. You send query and timeWindow to POST /api/v2/search. The call returns the answer when the provider is quick. When the provider is slow, the call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Octolens: Hacker News search API alternatives

Octolens alternatives: every Hacker News search API plan compared

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

This planOctolens, free, 7-day free trialAlgolia, free, GET /api/v1/searchAnyAPI, free trial keyParse, freeProLevelMax, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness50%100%100%100%100%
Billingfreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published7,200,000 calls a monthabout 33 calls, once200 callsabout 666 calls
Freshnessunknownunknownunknownlivelive
Who can get itnew users, a natural person over 18, a legal person or an organizational unit, no credit cardanyoneanyone 18 or over, with no account, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party listanyone of legal age to enter into the Terms of Service, or acting for an organization they have the legal authority to bindnew users, one per person: $1 when you verify your email and $1 more after your first successful run, no card required

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

  1. octolens.com/docs/api/overview
  2. octolens.com/docs/llms.txt
  3. octolens.com/legal/terms-of-service
  4. octolens.com/openapi.json
  5. octolens.com/pricing
  6. octolens.com/social-listening-api

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, not in the answer
  • Author
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search500
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 114 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchRuns a one-time search for `query` across the workspace's enabled sources over the last 1/7/30 days and AI-scores the results inline using the workspace's company profile.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataThe User agrees not to: [...] Resell or redistribute data obtained through the Software as a standalone product or dataset, or use the Software or such data to build or train a service that competes with the Software. For clarity, The User may use data obtained through the Software within its own organization and in its own systems, tools, and AI agents, and — where the subscription plan permits (e.g. agency plans) — in deliverables for its clients. [...] Use any information obtained from the Software to harass, abuse, or harm another person [...] The User is solely responsible for its own use of Third-Party Content outside the Software, in particular any republication, public display, storage outside the Software, or use in marketing materials. In doing so, The User must comply with applicable law — including copyright and data-protection law — and, where applicable, with the terms of the originating platform.
Plan
Pay$0
You get5,000 results
Expires7 days
Rate limit
Per second0.14
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call or by polling
The call
You sendquery, timeWindow. Optional: sources, excludeSources, keywordContext, additionalTerms, additionalTermsAndOr, excludeWords, minRelevance, includeNonRelevant, maxResults, waitMs
MethodPOST
Path/api/v2/search
About the plan
Plan7-day free trial
Who can get itnew users, a natural person over 18, a legal person or an organizational unit, no credit card
The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, title, text, permalink, author username, created at

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