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ReplyNodes pricing: Hacker News search API

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$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run ReplyNodes through our Hacker News search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 66 plans for Hacker News search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.656 per 1,000 searches or less. See the best free Hacker News search API plan.Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches. Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many searches as Scrollhound's rate limit allows.Scrollhound's $25 pack covers any number of searches. Scrollhound's $25 pack costs less up front than Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan.Algolia, Scrappa and AnyAPI are the best Hacker News search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest ReplyNodes plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of ReplyNodes's 3 plans
Call: GET /v1/hackernews/search ReplyNodes's only call for this API
API: Hacker News search API one of ReplyNodes's 14 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • Returns none of the 4 fields on our checklist: Text, Links and tags, Engagement and Author.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 500 credits once, enough for about 166 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send q to GET /v1/hackernews/search. You can also send tags, limit and page. The call returns the stories Hacker News finds for the query.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ReplyNodes: Hacker News search API alternatives

ReplyNodes alternatives: other Hacker News search API providers by price

The table starts with ReplyNodes's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to ReplyNodes's.

ReplyNodes, $99 monthlyMonocrawl, $59 packProLevelMax, top-upSocialCrawl, £49 packScrapingIsNotACrime, $5 pack
$ per 1,000 searches$2.97$2.95$3.00$3.267$3.333
Completeness0%100%100%100%100%
Billingmonthlypay firstpay firstpay firstpay first
Pay$99$59any amount£49$5
Enough forabout 33,333 calls a month20,000 pagesas many as you pay for20,000 pages1,500 pages
Freshnessunknownunknownlivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old and capable of forming a binding contractactive paid subscribersanyone with an account, one account per person, topping up by card (USD) or Alipay (CNY)anyone 18 or overanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

  1. api.replynodes.com/v1/capabilities
  2. docs.replynodes.com/reference
  3. replynodes.com
  4. replynodes.com/pricing
  5. replynodes.com/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Text, not in the answer
  • Links and tags, not in the answer
  • Engagement, not in the answer
  • Author, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 52 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch Hacker News via Algolia.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYour use of retrieved data remains subject to the applicable source's terms. [...] You agree not to use the Service to: Retrieve or use data for unlawful, infringing, defamatory, or fraudulent purposes, Engage in spam, fake engagement, or artificial amplification, Violate the terms, policies, or community standards of any third-party data source, Attempt to circumvent rate limits, security controls, or access restrictions, Reverse engineer, resell, or gain unauthorized access to the Service or other accounts.
Plan
Pay$0
You get500 credits
Enough forabout 166 calls, once
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendq. Optional: tags, limit, page
MethodGET
Path/v1/hackernews/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old and capable of forming a binding contract, no credit card required
The 2 fields the plan's answer can hold

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