# Trends MCP, free: Hacker News search API

> What people are posting, reading and betting about a keyword right now: posts, videos, stories, comments and markets from each source, with engagement.

Trends MCP's Hacker News search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. Trends MCP's docs list 3 of the 4 fields on our checklist: Text, Engagement, Author.
We haven't run Trends MCP 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/trends-mcp/free
- [Hacker News search API: the 3 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.trendsmcp.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.trendsmcp.ai/api`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.trendsmcp.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.trendsmcp.ai/docs.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing#get_context
- Sold by: Trends MCP (https://www.trendsmcp.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 75%
- Text: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Most per search: 20
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Get Time Series · Get Growth · Get Top Trends · Get Reviews

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: What people are posting, reading and betting about a keyword right now: posts, videos, stories, comments and markets from each source, with engagement.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree that you will not, and will not permit any third party to: [...] use Output to build, train, fine-tune, or improve any machine-learning model, large language model, search index, or competing trend or analytics product without our prior written consent, resell, sublicense, lease, white-label, republish, or redistribute the Output or the Service, in whole or in substantial part, as a standalone product, [...] use the Service to make fully automated, consequential decisions about individuals (such as credit, employment, housing, insurance, or law-enforcement decisions), [...] use the Service in a manner that violates the terms of service or acceptable-use policies of any Third-Party Data Source, represent Output as official, licensed, endorsed, or real-time data from any Third-Party Data Source. [...] we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to access and use the Service, and to use Output, for your own lawful purposes. That includes your own research, reports, presentations, internal tools, and use through an AI assistant or MCP client that you control. You may include insights, scores, and excerpts from Output in work you create (for example a report, dashboard, or product feature). You may not: (a) resell, sublicense, or redistribute Output or the Service as a standalone data feed, API, or competing analytics product, (b) wrap our API or MCP Server and offer it to others as if it were yours, or (c) give your customers, clients, or end users a key, token, or other credential that lets them call our Service directly. [...] Keys are for your Account and the people in your organization who work for you. They are not for your customers, clients, or end users. [...] Where you display Output externally, we ask (but do not require, except where otherwise stated) that you attribute it as “Data via Trends MCP” with a link to trendsmcp.ai.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 requests a month
- Enough for: 100 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: mode "get_context", keyword, source "Hacker News". Optional: days, limit, comments
- Method: POST
- Path: /api

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over with a Trends MCP account (sign up with an email and an 8-digit code, no card)

## The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

search query, results returned, title, text, author username, created at, score

## Trends MCP's plans (11)

- [Trends MCP, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/trends-mcp/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Trends MCP, $15 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/trends-mcp/15-pack/llms.txt): $25.00 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Trends MCP, $49 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/trends-mcp/49-pack/llms.txt): $19.60 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Trends MCP, $199 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/trends-mcp/199-pack/llms.txt): $16.583 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Trends MCP, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/trends-mcp/19-monthly/llms.txt): $19.00 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Trends MCP, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/trends-mcp/49-monthly/llms.txt): $9.80 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Trends MCP, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/trends-mcp/199-monthly/llms.txt): $7.96 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Trends MCP, $192 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/trends-mcp/192-yearly/llms.txt): $16.00 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Trends MCP, $468 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/trends-mcp/468-yearly/llms.txt): $7.80 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Trends MCP, $1,910 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/trends-mcp/1910-yearly/llms.txt): $6.367 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Trends MCP, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/trends-mcp/contact-us/llms.txt): 75% complete

## Trends MCP's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /api`: [Trends MCP, free](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/trends-mcp/free/llms.txt)

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## Trends MCP: Hacker News search API alternatives

- [ReplyNodes, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/replynodes/19-monthly/llms.txt): $5.70 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapio, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrapio/299-monthly/llms.txt): $5.98 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Buska, $3,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/buska/3000-pack/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [Anysite, $549 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/anysite/549-monthly/llms.txt): $6.459 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://www.trendsmcp.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://www.trendsmcp.ai/data-catalog.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://www.trendsmcp.ai/docs.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://www.trendsmcp.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://www.trendsmcp.ai/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://www.trendsmcp.ai/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing