# Scrollhound, free: Hacker News search API

> Hacker News is always free: it never uses credits or counts toward your monthly limit.

Scrollhound's Hacker News search API on its Free start plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. Scrollhound's docs list 1 of the 4 fields on our checklist: Text.
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.
We haven't run Scrollhound through [our Hacker News search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt) 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.](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt)
[Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrollhound/39-monthly/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrollhound/25-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. Scrollhound's $25 pack costs less up front than Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan.
[Algolia](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/algolia/free-get-api-v1-search/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrappa/10-pack/llms.txt) and [AnyAPI](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/anyapi/top-up-from-10/llms.txt) are the best Hacker News search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrollhound/free
- [Hacker News search API: the 3 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrollhound.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing#pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.scrollhound.com/v1/hn/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://scrollhound.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing#pricing
- Its API docs: https://scrollhound.com/docs/commands/hn/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing#hn-search
- Sold by: Scrollhound (https://scrollhound.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 25%
- Text: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Hacker News is always free: it never uses credits or counts toward your monthly limit.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- 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.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits
- Enough for: 1,209,600 calls, once
- Expires: 7 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: since, sort, limit, cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/hn/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free start
- Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over who signs in with an email address

## The only field the plan's answer can hold

title

## Scrollhound's plans (5)

- [Scrollhound, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrollhound/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 25% complete
- [Scrollhound, $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrollhound/25-pack/llms.txt): no limit, 25% complete
- [Scrollhound, $39 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrollhound/39-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0075 per 1,000, 25% complete
- [Scrollhound, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrollhound/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.0095 per 1,000, 25% complete
- [Scrollhound, $249 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrollhound/249-monthly/llms.txt): $0.048 per 1,000, 25% complete

## Scrollhound's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/hn/search`: [Scrollhound, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrollhound/free/llms.txt)

## Scrollhound's APIs (16)

- [Scrollhound: Hacker News search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrollhound/free/llms.txt)
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- [Scrollhound: TikTok profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/scrollhound/free/llms.txt)
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- [Scrollhound: X post API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/scrollhound/free/llms.txt)
- [Scrollhound: X profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/scrollhound/free/llms.txt)
- [Scrollhound: YouTube channel video API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/scrollhound/free/llms.txt)

## Scrollhound: Hacker News search API alternatives

- [Zapi, Rp399,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.022 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [upAPI, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/upapi/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.10 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Scrappa, $1,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrappa/1000-pack/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [ScrapeMole, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live

## 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.

- https://scrollhound.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing#pricing
- https://scrollhound.com/docs/commands/hn/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://scrollhound.com/docs/commands/linkedin/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://scrollhound.com/docs/reference/limits-and-costs/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://scrollhound.com/docs/reference/rest-api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://scrollhound.com/terms/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing