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SiteCheck pricing: Hacker News search API, GET /api/search/hacker-news

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100% complete: all 4 fields on our checklistSee the 4 fields
$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.
Type a number to see the cheapest SiteCheck plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: x402 pay per call SiteCheck's only plan
Call: GET /api/search/hacker-news one of SiteCheck's 2 calls for this API
API: Hacker News search API one of SiteCheck's 29 APIs

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 q to GET /api/search/hacker-news. You can also send limit. 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/search/hacker-newsSocial Fetch, $379 packScrapingIsNotACrime, $79 packMonocrawl, $799 monthlyAPI.SH, top-up from $15
$ per 1,000 searches$2.00$1.648$1.975$1.998$2.00
Completeness100%100%100%100%100%
Billingpay as you gopay firstpay firstmonthlypay first
Payper call$379$79$799$15
Enough foras many as you pay for230,000 pages40,000 pages400,000 pages a month7,500 pages
Freshnessunknownliveliveunknownunknown
Who can get itanyone 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 itanyoneanyoneanyone 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.

  1. api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources
  2. api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev
  3. api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev/pricing
  4. api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev/terms
  5. api.webintel-api.workers.dev/llms.txt
  6. api.webintel-api.workers.dev/openapi.json
  7. api.webintel-api.workers.dev/pricing

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
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$2.00
Percall
Billingpay as you go
Charges
Most per search30
Also pays fornothing else
In their words
Their pitchHacker News story search through the official HN Search API (Algolia, public, no key): title, article URL, author, points, comment count and discussion link. Returns stories only, most relevant first.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataBusiness 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.
Plan
Payper call
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendq. Optional: limit
MethodGET
Path/api/search/hacker-news
About the plan
Planx402 pay per call
Who can get itanyone 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

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