UnifAPI pricing and alternatives: Hacker News search API

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100% complete: all 4 key fields we checkSee the 4 fields

$50.00per 1,000 searchesHalf of the 22 plans we rank by price cost $2.237 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan is the most expensive of the 22 plans.Scrappa's $500 pack costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.238.

Plan: Pay-as-you-go one of UnifAPI's 3 plans

Call: GET /hacker-news/search UnifAPI's only call for this API

GET /hacker-news/searchTop-up, Pay-as-you-go$50.00 per 1,000

API: Hacker News search API one of UnifAPI's 68 APIs

About this item

Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
All 4 key fields we check. Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
A balance you top up. You pay any amount. You spend the whole balance on calls.
One call. You call GET /hacker-news/search. Every input is optional.
Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

UnifAPI: Hacker News search API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.

	This planUnifAPI, top-up, Pay-as-you-go	ProLevelMax, top-up	ScrapingIsNotACrime, $5 pack	Anysite, $49 monthly	Parse, $30 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches	$50.00	$3.00	$3.333	$16.333	$30.00
Completeness	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%
Billing	pay first	pay first	pay first	monthly	monthly
Pay	any amount	any amount	$5	$49	$30
Enough for	as many as you pay for	as many as you pay for	1,500 pages	3,000 pages a month	1,000 calls a month
Freshness	unknown	live	live	live	live
Who can get it	anyone	anyone with an account, one account per person, topping up by card (USD) or Alipay (CNY)	anyone	anyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction	anyone of legal age to enter into the Terms of Service, or acting for an organization they have the legal authority to bind

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.

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	$50.00
Per	page of 50
Billing	pay first

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: 324 other calls

Not found
$ per 1,000	$3.00

In their words
Their pitch	Full-text search over Hacker News stories, comments, polls and jobs with filters for type, author, domain, date range and points.

Data
Use data	You agree not to use our services for any unlawful purpose or in any way that could damage, disable, or impair the service. Prohibited activities include but are not limited to: Violating any applicable laws or regulations, Infringing on intellectual property rights, Transmitting malicious code or harmful content, Attempting to gain unauthorized access to systems, Interfering with or disrupting the service. [...] You may not use our services to: [...] Send unsolicited bulk messages (spam) [...] Circumvent any access controls or usage limits [...]. Public data has different legal postures depending on jurisdiction and platform. We provide the technical access, you're responsible for downstream use.

Plan
Expires	never

Rate limit
Per second	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	nothing required. Optional: query, type, sort, date_range, limit, front_page_only, search_story_text, search_author, prefix, typo_tolerance, author, domain, url, min_points, cursor
Method	GET
Path	/hacker-news/search

About the plan
Plan	Pay-as-you-go
Who can get it	anyone

The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

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