# UnyKorn, pay as you go: Hacker News search API

> Hacker News search: stories or comments, by relevance or recency

UnyKorn's x402 plan for the Hacker News search API costs $3.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 4 fields. UnyKorn's docs list all 4: Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
We haven't run UnyKorn through [our Hacker News search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt) 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.](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt) [Algolia's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/algolia/free-get-api-v1-search/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 90.9 out of 100.
[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, with no charge per call. You get as many searches as Scrollhound's rate limit allows. [Zapi's Rp49,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/zapi/rp49000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: about $2.72.
[Scrollhound's $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrollhound/25-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of searches, and 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 [Social Fetch](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/social-fetch/29-monthly/llms.txt) are the best Hacker News search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/unykorn/pay-as-you-go
- [Hacker News search API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://twin.unykorn.org/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://twin.unykorn.org/research/hn-search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://twin.unykorn.org/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: UnyKorn (https://twin.unykorn.org?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Text: ✓
- Links and tags: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $3.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Most per search: 50
- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Hacker News search: stories or comments, by relevance or recency

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: params.q. Optional: params.type, params.sort, params.since_days, params.limit
- Method: POST
- Path: /research/hn-search

## About the plan

- Plan: x402
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

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

## UnyKorn's plans (3)

- [UnyKorn, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/unykorn/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [UnyKorn, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/unykorn/5-pack/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [UnyKorn, $25 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/unykorn/25-pack/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete

## UnyKorn's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /research/hn-search`: [UnyKorn, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/unykorn/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

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- [UnyKorn Hacker News search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/unykorn/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
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## UnyKorn: Hacker News search API alternatives

[UnyKorn alternatives: other Hacker News search API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/unykorn-alternatives.txt)

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

- [Monocrawl, $59 pack](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/monocrawl/59-pack/llms.txt): $2.95 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [ReplyNodes, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/replynodes/99-monthly/llms.txt): $2.97 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [2s.io, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/2s-io/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [ProLevelMax, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/prolevelmax/top-up/llms.txt): $3.00 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 2026-11-10.

- https://genesis402.com/catalog?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://twin.unykorn.org/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://twin.unykorn.org/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://twin.unykorn.org/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing