# Rumoro, free: Hacker News search API

> Rumoro reads every new Hacker News story and comment every 5 minutes, finds the ones about your product, competitors or topic, and sends them to Slack, a webhook or your AI agent.

Rumoro's Hacker News search API on its Welcome credit plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns all 4 key fields we check: Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
We haven't run Rumoro through our Hacker News search API benchmark yet.
This plan is free. We rank 52 plans for Hacker News search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.577 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/rumoro/free
- Get it: https://rumoro.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.rumoro.dev/v1/mentions`
- API key: with the plan, on https://rumoro.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.rumoro.dev/api/mentions/search-mentions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Rumoro (https://rumoro.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Text: ✓
- Links and tags: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 100
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Monthly fee: $5.00 per keyword
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Create a keyword · List the comments of a mention

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Rumoro reads every new Hacker News story and comment every 5 minutes, finds the ones about your product, competitors or topic, and sends them to Slack, a webhook or your AI agent.

## Data

- Freshness: 5 minutes
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Use Rumoro only for lawful purposes. Don’t resell or redistribute the collected posts as a data product, Rumoro is for your own listening and replies. Don’t use it to harass, expose or watch individuals, or in ways that break the rules of the platforms the posts come from. Don’t try to overload or disrupt the service, and stay within the documented API limits. [...] Reddit posts come through Reddit’s Data API. When you use them, you also agree to follow Reddit’s User Agreement, Data API Terms and Public Content Policy. Among other things, you may not use Reddit content to train AI models, to profile individual people or target them by sensitive traits such as health, politics or religion, to combine it with other data into customer data sets, to run background checks, to track sensitive events or groups such as protests or unions, or for surveillance or law enforcement.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $5.80
- Enough for: 1 page
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: keywordId, platform, status, relevant, sentiment, intent, automated, personId, includeMuted, assigneeId, excludeAuthors, minRelevance, minConfidence, minFollowers, maxFollowers, isReply, kind, alertId, viewId, keywordKinds, tags, linkHosts, platforms, notPlatforms, keywordIds, groupIds, notGroupIds, notKeywordIds, sentiments, notSentiments, intents, notIntents, notLinkHosts, notTags, languages, notLanguages, ratings, notRatings, minLikes, minReposts, minReplies, minQuotes, minViews, minBookmarks, anyOf, q, since, until, sort, cursor, limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/mentions

## About the plan

- Plan: Welcome credit
- Who can get it: anyone who can enter into a binding contract, once per person, without a card

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

title, text, permalink, link URL, score, comment count, author username, created at, post type, next page

## Rumoro's plans (3)

- [Rumoro, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/rumoro/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 5 minutes
- [Rumoro, top-up from $20](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/rumoro/top-up-from-20/llms.txt): 100% complete, 5 minutes
- [Rumoro, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/rumoro/contact-us/llms.txt): 100% complete, 5 minutes

## Rumoro's calls (1)

- `GET /v1/mentions`: [Rumoro, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/rumoro/free/llms.txt)

## Rumoro's APIs (3)

- [Rumoro: Hacker News search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/rumoro/free/llms.txt)
- [Rumoro: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/rumoro/free/llms.txt)
- [Rumoro: news API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/rumoro/free/llms.txt)

## Rumoro: Hacker News search API alternatives

- [ScrapingIsNotACrime, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrapingisnotacrime/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Social Fetch, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/social-fetch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [SocialCrawl, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/socialcrawl/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Zapi, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/zapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, 3 minutes

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://api.rumoro.dev/v1/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.rumoro.dev/billing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.rumoro.dev/how-it-works?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.rumoro.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.rumoro.dev/platforms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.rumoro.dev/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://rumoro.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://rumoro.dev/hacker-news?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://rumoro.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://rumoro.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing