TrendsConnector pricing: Hacker News search API
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$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run TrendsConnector through our Hacker News search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 72 plans for Hacker News search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.96 per 1,000 searches or less. See the best free Hacker News search API plan.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.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 AnyAPI are the best Hacker News search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free one of TrendsConnector's 11 plans
- FreeFree$0.00 per 1,000
- $15 pack600 credits$25.00 per 1,000
- $49 pack2,500 credits$19.60 per 1,000
- $199 pack12,000 credits$16.583 per 1,000
- $19 monthlyStarter$19.00 per 1,000
- $49 monthlyPro$9.80 per 1,000
- $199 monthlyBusiness$7.96 per 1,000
- $192 yearlyStarter$16.00 per 1,000
- $468 yearlyPro$7.80 per 1,000
- $1,910 yearlyBusiness$6.367 per 1,000
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Call:
POST / TrendsConnector's only call for this APIAPI: Hacker News search API one of TrendsConnector's 6 APIs
- App Store review API
- Google Play review API
- Hacker News search API
- News API
- Video search API
- Keyword research API
POST /, Get Growthapi - Keyword research API
POST /, Get Time Seriesapi
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 pay. You get 100 requests a month. Calls stop once your requests run out. Requests are reset on the 1st.
- One call. You send
keywordtoPOST /. You setapi modeto "get_context" andsourceto "Hacker News". You can also senddays,limitandcomments. 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.
TrendsConnector: Hacker News search API alternatives
TrendsConnector alternatives: other Hacker News search API providers by price
The table starts with TrendsConnector's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to TrendsConnector's.
| TrendsConnector, $1,910 yearly | Scrapio, $299 monthly | Buska, $3,000 pack | Trends MCP, $1,910 yearly | Anysite, $549 monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 searches | $6.367 | $5.98 | $6.00 | $6.367 | $6.459 |
| Completeness | 100% | 100% | 75% | 75% | 100% |
| Billing | yearly | monthly | pay first | yearly | monthly |
| Pay | $1,910 | $299 | $3,000 | $1,910 | $549 |
| Enough for | 25,000 calls a month | 50,000 pages a month | 500,000 pages | 25,000 calls a month | 85,000 pages a month |
| Freshness | unknown | unknown | live | unknown | live |
| Who can get it | anyone aged 18 or over with a TrendsConnector account | anyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering a binding contract | any legal entity or professional acting in a business capacity | anyone aged 18 or over with a Trends MCP account (sign up with an email and an 8-digit code, no card) | anyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction |
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.
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 | $0.00 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Most per search | 20 |
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| Also pays for | from the same budget: Get Time Series · Get Growth · Get Top Trends · Get Reviews |
| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| 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. |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| 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 TrendsConnector” with a link to trendsconnector.com. |
| Pay | $0 |
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| You get | 100 requests a month |
| Enough for | 100 calls a month |
| Expires | reset on the 1st |
| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | mode "get_context", keyword, source "Hacker News". Optional: days, limit, comments |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /api |
| Plan | Free |
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| Who can get it | anyone aged 18 or over with a TrendsConnector account (sign up with an email and an 8-digit code, no card) |
The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold
search query, results returned, title, link URL, text, author username, created at, score