SandBase pricing: 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 44 plans by price. Scrappa's $500 pack is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.238.

Plan: Start one of SandBase's 3 plans

Call: POST /v1/api/hacker-news/search SandBase's only call for this API

API: Hacker News search API one of SandBase's 81 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.
One call. You send query to POST /v1/api/hacker-news/search. You can also send tags. The call returns the stories Hacker News finds for the query.
Who can get it: anyone at least 18 and legally able to enter a contract. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

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

	SandBase, top-up	AnyAPI, pay as you go	Social Fetch, $225 monthly	Monocrawl, $7,668 yearly	ScrapingIsNotACrime, $199 pack
$ per 1,000 searches	$1.50	$1.50	$1.50	$1.597	$1.658
Completeness	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%
Billing	pay first	pay as you go	monthly	yearly	pay first
Pay	any amount	per call	$225	$7,668	$199
Enough for	as many as you pay for	as many as you pay for	150,000 pages a month	400,000 pages a month	120,000 pages
Freshness	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	live
Who can get it	anyone at least 18 and legally able to enter a contract	anyone 18 or over, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party list, paying from a USDC wallet on Base (x402) or a Tempo wallet (MPP)	anyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind it	anyone	anyone

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-03.

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

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: 2,286 other calls

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Search Hacker News by keyword - matching stories with title, link, author, points, and comment count as clean JSON.

Data
Keep data	no limit
Use data	You may use outputs to the extent allowed by applicable law and the relevant model, API, dataset or content license. [...] Verify rights before commercial use, publication or distribution. [...] Access to a search, scraping or social-data API is not permission to bypass access controls, infringe a platform’s terms or process personal information unlawfully. Public availability of data does not remove your obligations to the people or rights holders concerned. [...] Do not use SandBase or allow your users to use it for: [...] Infringing intellectual property, privacy, publicity or confidentiality rights, unlawful surveillance, doxxing or collection of personal information, [...] Circumventing safety systems, identity checks, billing, quotas, rate limits or access restrictions, exploiting trials, coupons or promotional credits.

Plan
Pay	$0

Rate limit
Concurrent	2

Speed
Answer	in the call

About the plan
Plan	Start
Who can get it	anyone at least 18 and legally able to enter a contract

The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

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