# x402node, pay as you go: Hacker News search API

> Search Hacker News stories and comments via Algolia. Returns title, author, points, URL, num_comments, created_at, story/comment text.

x402node's x402 pay per call plan for the Hacker News search API costs $5.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 4 fields. x402node's docs list all 4: Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
We haven't run x402node through [our Hacker News search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrollhound/39-monthly/llms.txt) 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](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. Scrollhound's $25 pack 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/x402node/pay-as-you-go
- [Hacker News search API: the 6 best of 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-hacker-news-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://x402node.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.x402node.dev/forum/hn`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://api.x402node.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing#/paths/~1forum~1hn
- Sold by: x402node (https://x402node.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $5.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search Hacker News stories and comments via Algolia. Returns title, author, points, URL, num_comments, created_at, story/comment text.

## 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: q. Optional: type, limit
- Method: GET
- Path: /forum/hn

## About the plan

- 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

## x402node's plans (1)

- [x402node, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/x402node/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 100% complete

## x402node's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /forum/hn`: [x402node, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/x402node/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## x402node's APIs (12)

- [x402node: Amazon product API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-product-apis/x402node/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
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- [x402node: Google Shopping search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/x402node/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [x402node: Hacker News search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/x402node/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [x402node: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/x402node/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [x402node: email verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/x402node/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [x402node: image search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/x402node/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
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- [x402node: news API pricing, 1 plan, GET /search/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/x402node/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-search-news/llms.txt)
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- [x402node: SERP API pricing, 1 plan, GET /serp/cn](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/x402node/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-serp-cn/llms.txt)
- [x402node: SERP API pricing, 1 plan, GET /serp/web](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/x402node/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-serp-web/llms.txt)
- [x402node: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan, GET /web/batch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/x402node/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-web-batch/llms.txt)
- [x402node: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan, GET /r](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/x402node/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-r/llms.txt)
- [x402node: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan, GET /web/read](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/x402node/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-web-read/llms.txt)
- [x402node: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan, GET /reader](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/x402node/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-reader/llms.txt)
- [x402node: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan, GET /reader/clean](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/x402node/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-reader-clean/llms.txt)
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## x402node: Hacker News search API alternatives

- [WebLens, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/weblens/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Anysite, $1,199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/anysite/1199-monthly/llms.txt): $4.996 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Genexxis, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/genexxis/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [ReplyNodes, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/replynodes/19-monthly/llms.txt): $5.70 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Scrapio, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrapio/299-monthly/llms.txt): $5.98 per 1,000, 100% complete

## 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.

- https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://api.x402node.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://api.x402node.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing
- https://x402node.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hacker-news-search-api-pricing