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100% complete: all 4 key fields we checkSee the 4 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Pushbuild 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: Free one of Pushbuild's 2 plans
Call: POST /hacker-news/run Pushbuild's only call for this API
API: Hacker News search API one of Pushbuild's 17 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 $1 of credit a month.
  • One call. You send searchQueries to POST /hacker-news/run. You can also send itemType, sort, fromDate, untilDate, minPoints, maxItemsPerQuery and maxItems. The call returns the stories Hacker News finds for each query.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contract. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Pushbuild: Hacker News search API alternatives

Pushbuild alternatives: every Hacker News search API plan compared

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

This planPushbuild, freeAlgolia, free, GET /api/v1/searchAnyAPI, free trial keyQuanticData, freeSandBase, freeOctolens, free, 7-day free trial
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness100%100%100%100%100%50%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published7,200,000 calls a monthabout 33 calls, oncenot publishednot publishednot published
Freshnessunknownunknownunknownliveunknownunknown
Who can get itanyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contractanyoneanyone 18 or over, with no account, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party listanyoneanyone at least 18 and legally able to enter a contractnew users, a natural person over 18, a legal person or an organizational unit, no credit card

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. pushbuild.com/apis
  2. pushbuild.com/apis/app/signup?api=google-ads-transparency
  3. pushbuild.com/apis/hacker-news.html
  4. pushbuild.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
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search500
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 423 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch every Hacker News story and comment by keyword, date and points, or pull the live Top, New, Best, Ask, Show and Jobs feeds. Returns title, URL, author, points, comment count, text and dates. Official APIs, no blocks.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use data[...] we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to call our APIs with the key we issue to you, for your internal business purposes. [...] You alone are responsible for ensuring that your use of any output complies with all applicable laws, regulations, third-party terms of service, robots directives, intellectual property rights, privacy and data protection laws, and contractual obligations [...] You will not use any output, including any owner, property, name or address data, as a consumer report or as a factor in determining eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing or tenancy [...] You will not, and will not let anyone else: (a) violate any law or third-party right, (b) reverse engineer or decompile the Site, or scrape or bulk-copy it, except through the APIs as licensed or as our robots.txt permits [...], (c) resell, sublicense, white-label or provide the APIs to third parties as a standalone service, unless we agree in writing, (d) circumvent any rate limit, key, access control or security measure, (e) interfere with or overload the Site, or introduce malware, (f) use the Site to build a competing product or service, (g) submit content that is unlawful, infringing, defamatory, or that you have no right to share, (h) misrepresent your identity or affiliation, or (i) submit protected health information, payment card data, government ID numbers, or other sensitive data [...]
Plan
Pay$0
You get$1 a month
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendsearchQueries. Optional: itemType, sort, fromDate, untilDate, minPoints, maxItemsPerQuery, maxItems
MethodPOST
Path/hacker-news/run
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contract
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

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

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