SiteCheck pricing: Hacker News search API, GET /
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$2.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run SiteCheck through our Hacker News search API benchmark yet.We rank 90 plans for Hacker News search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.925 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 58% of the 90 plans.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. Zapi's Rp49,000 monthly plan costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: about $2.72.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 Social Fetch are the best Hacker News search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: x402 pay per call SiteCheck's only plan
Call:
GET / one of SiteCheck's 2 calls for this APIGET /Pay as you go, x402 pay per call$2.00 per 1,000api/ search/ hacker-news GET /Pay as you go, x402 pay per call$2.00 per 1,000api/ hn/ search
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About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- All 4 fields on our checklist. Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
- Nothing to buy first. You pay per call.
- One call. You send
qtoGET /. You can also sendapi/ hn/ search type,from,to,minPoints,sortandlimit. 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.
SiteCheck: Hacker News search API alternatives
SiteCheck alternatives: other Hacker News search API providers by price
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.
| This planSiteCheck, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /api/hn/search | Social Fetch, $379 pack | ScrapingIsNotACrime, $79 pack | Monocrawl, $799 monthly | API.SH, top-up from $15 | |
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| $ per 1,000 searches | $2.00 | $1.648 | $1.975 | $1.998 | $2.00 |
| Completeness | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Billing | pay as you go | pay first | pay first | monthly | pay first |
| Pay | per call | $379 | $79 | $799 | $15 |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | 230,000 pages | 40,000 pages | 400,000 pages a month | 7,500 pages |
| Freshness | unknown | live | live | unknown | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone at least 18 acting for business purposes (not a consumer), not a person subject to sanctions or from a region where the service or the payment would be prohibited, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC (x402) | anyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind it | anyone | anyone | anyone aged 18 or over with a working email address |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Text
- Links and tags
- Engagement
- Author
| $ per 1,000 searches | $2.00 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | pay as you go |
| Most per search | 25 |
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| Also pays for | nothing else |
| Their pitch | Full-text search of Hacker News stories or comments through the Algolia HN API: title, URL, author, points, comment count, time and HN link, comments include their text (max 500 characters). Filters: date range (from, to as YYYY-MM-DD), minimum points, sort by relevance or date. Covers the public HN index only, limit max 25. |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | Business use only: SiteCheck is offered to businesses, developers and professionals for use in their trade, business or profession. It is not offered to consumers. [...] SiteCheck is not a consumer reporting agency. You must not use results as a factor in decisions about a person's eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing or similar purposes under the US Fair Credit Reporting Act or comparable laws. Content in results that belongs to a source remains that source's. You are responsible for making sure that your use, storage and redistribution of results complies with the law (including copyright, database rights and data protection law) and with the terms of the original source. [...] Do not use SiteCheck for anything unlawful, to harass, track, stalk or discriminate against any person, to build profiles of individuals without a lawful basis, or to infringe anyone's rights. Do not attack, overload, scan for weaknesses or try to bypass payment, rate limits or other controls, and do not use the service to attack or overload third-party sources. Do not use SiteCheck if you are, or act for, a person subject to sanctions, or from a country or region where the service or the payment would be prohibited. |
| Pay | per call |
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| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | q. Optional: type, from, to, minPoints, sort, limit |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /api/hn/search |
| Plan | x402 pay per call |
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| Who can get it | anyone at least 18 acting for business purposes (not a consumer), not a person subject to sanctions or from a region where the service or the payment would be prohibited, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC (x402) |
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold
total results, post ID, title, link URL, permalink, score, comment count, author username, created at