Scrollhound pricing: Hacker News search API
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$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Scrollhound 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.
Plan: Free start one of Scrollhound's 5 plans
- FreeFree start$0.00 per 1,000
- $25 packPay as you gono limit
- $39 monthlySolo$0.0075 per 1,000
- $49 monthlyPro$0.0095 per 1,000
- $249 monthlyAgency$0.048 per 1,000
Call:
GET / Scrollhound's only call for this APIAPI: Hacker News search API one of Scrollhound's 16 APIs
- Hacker News search API
- Hacker News comment API
- Instagram post API
- Instagram profile API
- LinkedIn company post API
- LinkedIn company data API
- LinkedIn profile post API
- LinkedIn profile API
- LinkedIn Ad Library API
- LinkedIn post details API
- LinkedIn post search API
- TikTok profile API
- TikTok video API
- X post API
- X profile API
- YouTube channel video API
About this item
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- 1 of the 4 fields on our checklist. Text.
- Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits. You spend the credits on Scrollhound's other calls. This call is free for up to 1,209,600 calls in all. Unused credits expire after 7 days.
- One call. You send
qtoGET /. You can also sendv1/ hn/ search since,sort,limitandcursor. The call returns the stories Hacker News finds for the query. - Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over who signs in with an email address. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Scrollhound: Hacker News search API alternatives
Scrollhound alternatives: other Hacker News search API providers by price
The table starts with Scrollhound's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Scrollhound's.
| Scrollhound, $39 monthly | Zapi, Rp399,000 monthly | upAPI, $499 monthly | Scrappa, $1,000 pack | ScrapeMole, pay as you go | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.0075 | $0.022 | $0.10 | $0.20 | $1.00 |
| Completeness | 25% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Billing | monthly | monthly | monthly | pay first | pay as you go |
| Pay | $39 | Rp399,000 | $499 | $1,000 | per call |
| Enough for | 5,184,000 calls a month | 1,000,000 calls a month | 5,000,000 calls a month | 5,000,000 calls | 1 call |
| Freshness | unknown | live | live | unknown | live |
| Who can get it | anyone aged 18 or over who signs in with an email address | anyone aged 18 or over, or with a guardian's consent | anyone | anyone 18 or over | anyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base or Solana |
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.
Product details
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| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | nothing else |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Hacker News is always free: it never uses credits or counts toward your monthly limit. |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | You must not use the Service to: break any law or regulation, or help anyone else to do so, harass, stalk or intimidate any person, compile profiles of private individuals, or disclose personal information about them, send unsolicited bulk messages, commit fraud, or distribute malicious software, infringe any person's intellectual property, privacy or other rights, create, sell or distribute datasets of Third-Party Content, redistribute Third-Party Content in bulk, or build a product or service that competes with the Service, make decisions about an individual that produce legal effects on that individual or similarly significantly affect them, such as decisions on employment, credit, housing or insurance. You must not: circumvent any usage limit, Read balance or security measure, or open more than one Account to avoid a limit, extract data from the Service by automated means other than through the MCP server, the REST API or the command-line tool, and within the limits that apply to your Account, attack, overload, probe or disrupt the Service, or decompile or reverse engineer it, except to the extent the law allows you to do so. Each Account is for one person. You must not share your Account with another person or resell access to the Service. You are responsible for complying with each Platform's terms that apply to your use of its content. |
| Pay | $0 |
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| You get | 100 credits |
| Enough for | 1,209,600 calls, once |
| Expires | 7 days |
| Per second | 2 |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | q. Optional: since, sort, limit, cursor |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /v1/hn/search |
| Plan | Free start |
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| Who can get it | anyone aged 18 or over who signs in with an email address |
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