upAPI pricing: Hacker News search API
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100% complete: all 4 key fields we checkSee the 4 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run upAPI through our Hacker News search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 55 plans for Hacker News search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.475 per 1,000 searches or less.Zapi's Rp399,000 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.022.
Plan: Free one of upAPI's 4 plans
- FreeFree$0.00 per 1,000
- $29 monthlyStarter$0.29 per 1,000
- $99 monthlyPro$0.198 per 1,000
- $499 monthlyScale$0.10 per 1,000
Call:
POST / upAPI's only call for this APIAPI: Hacker News search API one of upAPI's 20 APIs
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About this item
- Live. upAPI searches Hacker News when you call the API.
- All 4 key fields we check. Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
- Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 1,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. The quota resets at the start of each UTC calendar month.
- One call. You send
querytoPOST /. You can also sendhackernews-search.get tags,orderandhitsPerPage. The call returns the stories Hacker News finds for the query. - Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
upAPI: Hacker News search API alternatives
upAPI alternatives: other Hacker News search API providers by price
The table starts with upAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to upAPI's. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| upAPI, $499 monthly | Zapi, Rp129,000 monthly | ScrapeMole, pay as you go | Social Fetch, $2,430 yearly | ScrapingIsNotACrime, $199 pack | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.10 | $0.036 | $1.00 | $1.35 | $1.658 |
| Completeness | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Billing | monthly | monthly | pay as you go | yearly | pay first |
| Pay | $499 | Rp129,000 | per call | $2,430 | $199 |
| Enough for | 5,000,000 calls a month | 200,000 calls a month | 1 call | 150,000 pages a month | 120,000 pages |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone | anyone aged 18 or over, or with a guardian's consent | anyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base or Solana | anyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind it | anyone |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.
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 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Repeat free | 1 minute |
|---|---|
| Also pays for | from the same budget: 112 other calls |
| Units cap | hard |
|---|
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
|---|
| Their pitch | Full-text + filter search over Hacker News (stories, comments, Show/Ask HN, front page) via Algolia's open API. Ordered by relevance or date. |
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| Freshness | live |
|---|---|
| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | "You agree not to use the Services to: break the law, infringe anyone's rights, or help someone else do so, transmit malware, attempt to gain unauthorized access to any system, or probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Services or any upstream provider without authorization, exceed, evade, or interfere with rate limits, plan quotas, or other technical or usage restrictions, including by sharing or rotating keys to do so, resell, sublicense, or redistribute the Services or your API access except as we expressly allow, place an unreasonable load on, disrupt, or degrade our infrastructure or that of any upstream provider, violate the terms, policies, or rate limits of any upstream API you reach through the gateway, send data you have no lawful right to send, or route sensitive data through an endpoint not intended for it, or misrepresent your identity or your affiliation with any person or organization." "[...] your use of it is also subject to that provider's own terms and policies, which we do not control." |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 1,000 credits a month |
| Enough for | 1,000 calls a month |
| Expires | the quota resets at the start of each UTC calendar month |
| Per second | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
|---|
| You send | query. Optional: tags, order, hitsPerPage |
|---|---|
| Method | POST |
| Path | /hackernews-search.get |
| Plan | Free |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone |
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold
post ID, link URL, tags, title, author username, score, created at, text, comment count, search query, total results