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ProLevelMax pricing and alternatives: Hacker News search API

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100% complete: all 4 key fields we checkSee the 4 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 22 plans by price. Scrappa's $500 pack costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.238.
Plan: Sign-up credit one of ProLevelMax's 5 plans
Call: POST /v1/run ProLevelMax's only call for this API
API: Hacker News search API one of ProLevelMax's 66 APIs

About this item

  • Live. ProLevelMax searches Hacker News when you call the API.
  • All 4 key fields we check. Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $2 of credit, enough for about 666 calls.
  • One call. You send input.query to POST /v1/run. You set scraper to "procli_hackernews_a" and input.mode to "search". You can also send input.search_sort, input.max_results and input.include_comments. 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.

ProLevelMax: Hacker News search API alternatives

The table starts with ProLevelMax's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to ProLevelMax's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

ProLevelMax, $10,000 packScrapingIsNotACrime, $25 packAnysite, $1,199 monthlyParse, $1,000 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$2.609$2.50$4.996$10.00
Completeness100%100%100%100%
Billingpay firstpay firstmonthlymonthly
Pay$10,000$25$1,199$1,000
Enough forabout 3,833,333 calls10,000 pages240,000 pages a month100,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone who sends the Contact sales form (company, work email, top-up amount, use case), paid by bank transfer and invoicedanyoneanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdictionanyone of legal age to enter into the Terms of Service, or acting for an organization they have the legal authority to bind

Hacker News search API pricing: plans compared

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-31.

  1. prolevelmax.com/data/hacker_news
  2. prolevelmax.com/data/hackernews/hacker-news-stories
  3. prolevelmax.com/data/linkedin
  4. prolevelmax.com/docs
  5. prolevelmax.com/openapi.json
  6. prolevelmax.com/pricing
  7. prolevelmax.com/terms

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
  • Engagement
  • Author
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search500
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 1,063 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchReturns stories from Hacker News, taken from the ranked front-page lists, a keyword search or one user's submissions, with optional top-level comments. Useful for following tech community discussion around a product, company or topic.
Data
Freshnesslive
Use dataYou are responsible for how you use the data and must follow applicable laws and the rules of the source platforms. Do not use the service to harass, track or locate specific individuals, to collect or sell sensitive personal information, to send spam or commit fraud, or for any other unlawful purpose, and do not attempt to circumvent billing, rate limits or security measures.
Plan
Pay$0
You get$2
Enough forabout 666 calls
Rate limit
Concurrent5
Speed
Answerin the call or by polling
The call
You sendscraper "procli_hackernews_a", input.mode "search", input.query. Optional: input.search_sort, input.max_results, input.include_comments
MethodPOST
Path/v1/run
About the plan
PlanSign-up credit
Who can get itnew users, one per person: $1 when you verify your email and $1 more after your first successful run, no card required
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

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

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