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Social Fetch pricing and alternatives: 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 32 plans by price. Scrappa's $500 pack costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.238.
Plan: Free one of Social Fetch's 12 plans
Call: GET /v1/hackernews/search Social Fetch's only call for this API
API: Hacker News search API one of Social Fetch's 53 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Social Fetch searches Hacker News when you call the API.
  • All 4 key fields we check. Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits, enough for 100 pages.
  • One call. You call GET /v1/hackernews/search. Every input is optional.
  • Who can get it: anyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Social Fetch: Hacker News search API alternatives

The table starts with Social Fetch's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Social Fetch's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Social Fetch, $2,430 yearlyScrapingIsNotACrime, $199 packProLevelMax, $10,000 packSocialCrawl, £299 packAnysite, $1,199 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$1.35$1.658$2.609$2.658$4.996
Completeness100%100%100%100%100%
Billingyearlypay firstpay firstpay firstmonthly
Pay$2,430$199$10,000£299$1,199
Enough for150,000 pages a month120,000 pagesabout 3,833,333 calls150,000 pages240,000 pages a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind itanyoneanyone who sends the Contact sales form (company, work email, top-up amount, use case), paid by bank transfer and invoicedanyone 18 or overanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction

Hacker News search API pricing: plans compared

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-01.

  1. socialfetch.dev
  2. socialfetch.dev/
  3. socialfetch.dev/docs/api/v1/hackernews/search/get.mdx
  4. socialfetch.dev/docs/capability-matrix.mdx
  5. socialfetch.dev/docs/credits.mdx
  6. socialfetch.dev/docs/errors.mdx
  7. socialfetch.dev/llms.txt
  8. socialfetch.dev/openapi.json
  9. socialfetch.dev/pricing
  10. socialfetch.dev/pricing.mdx
  11. socialfetch.dev/terms

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$0.00
Perpage of 50
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search1,000
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 273 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch Hacker News by keyword.
Data
Freshnesslive
Use dataYou agree not to: Use the Services in violation of applicable law. Use outputs to harass, surveil, discriminate against, or harm individuals or groups. Send spam, manipulate platforms, or engage in deceptive or fraudulent activity. Infringe intellectual property or other rights of third parties. Attempt to access non-public data, bypass rate limits or technical controls, or probe our systems in ways that could harm availability or security. Resell or redistribute the Services in ways that misrepresent their source, or use them to build a substantially similar competing API without our written consent. [...] On any plan you may incorporate Social Fetch data outputs into your own products and services, present them under your own brand without attribution to us, and supply them to your own customers. You may not share or resell API keys or other access credentials, expose the Social Fetch API itself as a like-for-like API, or build a substantially similar competing API. This gives you no right beyond what we hold ourselves in the underlying data: the terms of the source platforms, restrictions that apply to us and applicable law, including data-protection law, still apply, and you remain responsible for how your own customers use what you supply. [...] Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Services for your internal business purposes or to power your applications for your end users, in each case as intended.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough for100 pages
Rate limit
Concurrent200
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendnothing required. Optional: query, type, sort, dateRange, page, limit, frontPageOnly, searchStoryText, searchAuthor, prefix, typoTolerance, author, domain, url, minPoints
MethodGET
Path/v1/hackernews/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind it
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

post ID, title, text, link URL, score, comment count, author username, created at, permalink, results returned, total results

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