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WebLens pricing: Hacker News search API

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100% complete: all 4 fields on our checklistSee the 4 fields
$4.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run WebLens through our Hacker News search API benchmark yet.We rank 76 plans for Hacker News search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.96 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 42% of the 76 plans.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. 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. Scrollhound's $25 pack 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: Pay per call (x402) WebLens's only plan
Call: POST /discussions WebLens's only call for this API
API: Hacker News search API one of WebLens's 5 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 query to POST /discussions. You can also send limit and sort. 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.

WebLens: Hacker News search API alternatives

WebLens 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 planWebLens, pay as you goSocialCrawl, £49 packScrapingIsNotACrime, $5 packMonocrawl, $19 packAnysite, $1,199 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$4.00$3.267$3.333$3.80$4.996
Completeness100%100%100%100%100%
Billingpay as you gopay firstpay firstpay firstmonthly
Payper call£49$5$19$1,199
Enough foras many as you pay for20,000 pages1,500 pages5,000 pages240,000 pages a month
Freshnessunknownliveliveunknownlive
Who can get itanyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC on Base or Solana from a wallet (x402)anyone 18 or overanyoneactive paid subscribersanyone 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 2026-11-08.

  1. api.weblens.dev
  2. api.weblens.dev/.well-known/x402
  3. api.weblens.dev/discovery
  4. api.weblens.dev/docs
  5. api.weblens.dev/llms.txt
  6. api.weblens.dev/openapi.json
  7. api.weblens.dev/privacy
  8. api.weblens.dev/refunds
  9. api.weblens.dev/terms

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$4.00
Percall
Billingpay as you go
Charges
Most per search50
Also pays fornothing else
In their words
Their pitchWhat Hacker News said about a topic: matching stories with points, comment counts and links to the threads, plus aggregates.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataUse the service lawfully. You are responsible for what you do with the content you retrieve, including copyright, database rights, the target site's terms, and data-protection law for any personal data in it. For that data, you are the controller. Do not use the service to attack, overload or gain unauthorised access to any system. Do not bypass access controls or paywalls, collect credentials, or send spam.
Plan
Payper call
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: limit, sort
MethodPOST
Path/discussions
About the plan
PlanPay per call (x402)
Who can get itanyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC on Base or Solana from a wallet (x402)
The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, search query, sort order, title, link URL, score, comment count, author username, created at, permalink, total results, results returned, points returned, comments returned, top domains, first seen, last seen

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