# Octolens, free, 7-day free trial: Hacker News search API

> Runs 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.

Octolens's Hacker News search API on its 7-day free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 2 of the 4 key fields we check: Text, Author.
We 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](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.022.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/octolens/free-7-day-free-trial
- Get it: https://octolens.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://app.octolens.com/api/v2/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://octolens.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://octolens.com/docs/api-reference/search/run-an-on-demand-mention-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Octolens (https://octolens.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Text: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 500
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 114 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Runs 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 data: no limit
- Use data: The 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 get: 5,000 results
- Expires: 7 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.14
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling

## The call

- You send: query, timeWindow. Optional: sources, excludeSources, keywordContext, additionalTerms, additionalTermsAndOr, excludeWords, minRelevance, includeNonRelevant, maxResults, waitMs
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v2/search

## About the plan

- Plan: 7-day free trial
- Who can get it: new 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

## Octolens's plans (7)

- [Octolens, free, 7-day free trial](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/octolens/free-7-day-free-trial/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [Octolens, free, Agents](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/octolens/free-agents/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [Octolens, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/octolens/199-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Octolens, $599 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/octolens/599-monthly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Octolens, $1,908 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/octolens/1908-yearly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Octolens, $5,988 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/octolens/5988-yearly/llms.txt): 50% complete
- [Octolens, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/octolens/contact-us/llms.txt): 50% complete

## Octolens's calls (1)

- `POST /api/v2/search`: [Octolens, free, 7-day free trial](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/octolens/free-7-day-free-trial/llms.txt)

## Octolens's APIs (2)

- [Octolens: Hacker News search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/octolens/free-7-day-free-trial/llms.txt)
- [Octolens: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/octolens/free-7-day-free-trial/llms.txt)

## Octolens: 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
- [AnyAPI, free trial key](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/anyapi/free-trial-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Parse, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/parse/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ProLevelMax, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/prolevelmax/free/llms.txt): $0.00 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 2026-11-04.

- https://octolens.com/docs/api/overview?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://octolens.com/docs/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://octolens.com/legal/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://octolens.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://octolens.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://octolens.com/social-listening-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing