x402node pricing: Hacker News search API
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100% complete: all 4 fields on our checklistSee the 4 fields
$5.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run x402node through our Hacker News search API benchmark yet.We rank 90 plans for Hacker News search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.925 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 36% of the 90 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.
Plan: x402 pay per call x402node's only plan
Call:
GET / x402node's only call for this APIAPI: Hacker News search API one of x402node's 12 APIs
- Amazon product API
- Amazon search API
- Google Shopping search API
- Hacker News search API
- Domain WHOIS API
- Email verification API
- Image search API
- Local business search API
- News API
GET /serp/ news - News API
GET /serp/ cn-news - News API
GET /search/ news - Reverse email lookup API
- SERP API
GET /serp/ geo - SERP API
GET /serp/ cn - SERP API
GET /serp/ web - Web scraping API
GET /web/ batch - Web scraping API
GET /r - Web scraping API
GET /web/ read - Web scraping API
GET /reader - Web scraping API
GET /reader/ clean - Web scraping API
GET /web/ extract
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
qtoGET /. You can also sendforum/ hn typeandlimit. The call returns the stories Hacker News finds for the query. - Who can get it: anyone with a wallet paying USDC on Base or Solana (x402), no account or API key. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.
x402node: Hacker News search API alternatives
x402node alternatives: other Hacker News search API providers by price
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches. We also show the WebLens plan. Its price is farther from this plan's price.
| This planx402node, pay as you go | WebLens, pay as you go | Anysite, $1,199 monthly | Genexxis, pay as you go | ReplyNodes, $19 monthly | Scrapio, $299 monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 searches | $5.00 | $4.00 | $4.996 | $5.00 | $5.70 | $5.98 |
| Completeness | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% | 100% |
| Billing | pay as you go | pay as you go | monthly | pay as you go | monthly | monthly |
| Pay | per call | per call | $1,199 | per call | $19 | $299 |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | as many as you pay for | 240,000 pages a month | as many as you pay for | about 3,333 calls a month | 50,000 pages a month |
| Freshness | unknown | unknown | live | unknown | unknown | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone with a wallet paying USDC on Base or Solana (x402), no account or API key | anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC on Base or Solana from a wallet (x402) | anyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction | anyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base, with no account or API key, paying each call (x402) | anyone at least 18 years old and capable of forming a binding contract | anyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering a binding contract |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.
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 | $5.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | pay as you go |
| Also pays for | nothing else |
|---|
| Their pitch | Search Hacker News stories and comments via Algolia. Returns title, author, points, URL, num_comments, created_at, story/comment text. |
|---|
| Keep data | no API terms |
|---|---|
| Use data | no API terms |
| Pay | per call |
|---|
| Batch | 1 |
|---|
| Answer | in the call |
|---|
| You send | q. Optional: type, limit |
|---|---|
| Method | GET |
| Path | /forum/hn |
| Plan | x402 pay per call |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone with a wallet paying USDC on Base or Solana (x402), no account or API key |
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold
title, author username, score, link URL, comment count, created at, text