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UnyKorn Hacker News search API pricing

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$3.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run UnyKorn through our Hacker News search API benchmark yet.We rank 82 plans for Hacker News search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.985 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 43% of the 82 plans. UnyKorn has no free Hacker News search API plan. 30 Hacker News search API plans on our price sheet are free. Algolia's free plan scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 90.9 out of 100.Scrollhound's $39 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches, with no charge 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, and 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.
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Plan: x402 one of UnyKorn's 3 plans
Call: POST /research/hn-search UnyKorn's only call for this API
API: Hacker News search API one of UnyKorn's 8 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 params.q to POST /research/hn-search. You can also send params.type, params.sort, params.since_days and params.limit. The call returns the stories Hacker News finds for the query.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

UnyKorn: Hacker News search API alternatives

UnyKorn 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 planUnyKorn, pay as you goMonocrawl, $59 packReplyNodes, $99 monthly2s.io, pay as you goProLevelMax, top-up
$ per 1,000 searches$3.00$2.95$2.97$3.00$3.00
Completeness100%100%0%100%100%
Billingpay as you gopay firstmonthlypay as you gopay first
Payper call$59$99per callany amount
Enough foras many as you pay for20,000 pagesabout 33,333 calls a monthas many as you pay foras many as you pay for
Freshnessunknownunknownunknownunknownlive
Who can get itanyoneactive paid subscribersanyone at least 18 years old and capable of forming a binding contractanyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base or Solana, paying each call over x402, with no account or API keyanyone with an account, one account per person, topping up by card (USD) or Alipay (CNY)

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

  1. genesis402.com/catalog
  2. twin.unykorn.org/.well-known/x402
  3. twin.unykorn.org/llms.txt
  4. twin.unykorn.org/openapi.json

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$3.00
Percall
Billingpay as you go
Charges
Most per search50
Also pays fornothing else
In their words
Their pitchHacker News search: stories or comments, by relevance or recency
Data
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Payper call
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendparams.q. Optional: params.type, params.sort, params.since_days, params.limit
MethodPOST
Path/research/hn-search
About the plan
Planx402
Who can get itanyone
The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

title, link URL, score, comment count, author username, created at

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