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Zapi 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 Zapi through our Hacker News search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 51 plans for Hacker News search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.653 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 Zapi's 5 plans
Call: GET /v1/search-tools:hackernews/search Zapi's only call for this API
API: Hacker News search API one of Zapi's 33 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 3 minutes old. You get stories Zapi saved earlier.
  • All 4 key fields we check. Text, Links and tags, Engagement, Author.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 600 requests a month. Calls stop once your requests run out. Unused requests expire at the end of the month, no rollover.
  • One call. You send query to GET /v1/search-tools:hackernews/search. You can also send page. 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.

Zapi: Hacker News search API alternatives

Zapi alternatives: every Hacker News search API plan compared

The table starts with Zapi's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Zapi's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Zapi, Rp399,000 monthlySocial Fetch, $2,430 yearlyScrapingIsNotACrime, $199 packProLevelMax, $10,000 packSocialCrawl, £299 pack
$ per 1,000 searches$0.022$1.35$1.658$2.609$2.658
Completeness100%100%100%100%100%
Billingmonthlyyearlypay firstpay firstpay first
PayRp399,000$2,430$199$10,000£299
Enough for1,000,000 calls a month150,000 pages a month120,000 pagesabout 3,833,333 calls150,000 pages
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over, or with a guardian's consentanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind itanyoneanyone who sends the Contact sales form (company, work email, top-up amount, use case), paid by bank transfer and invoicedanyone 18 or over

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

  1. zapi.ink
  2. zapi.ink/api/search-tools/hackernews/llms.txt
  3. zapi.ink/llms.txt
  4. zapi.ink/pricing
  5. zapi.ink/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$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 1,284 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchHacker News search via Algolia API — pencarian post & komentar tech/startup community dengan points, comments, author.
Data
Freshness3 minutes
Keep datano limit
Use dataZapi grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, and limited license to access and use the Platform's API, SDK, and documentation in accordance with your applicable tier. You are prohibited from: Modifying, decompiling, disassembling, or reverse engineering any component of the Platform. Creating derivative works based on the Zapi API, SDK, or documentation. Reselling, rebranding, or redistributing access to the Zapi API to third parties without a separate commercial agreement. Sharing your API key with unauthorized parties. [...] You are prohibited from using the Platform to: Collect personal data without the lawful consent of the data owner. Conduct illegal activity in your operating jurisdiction, including fraud, phishing, or copyright infringement. Send requests intended to disrupt the stability of the Platform (DDoS, request floods, infinite loops). Bypass rate limits through multi-accounting, automated key rotation, or other methods. Build products whose substance is mirroring or reselling Zapi data without adding value. Use the Platform in a manner that violates the Terms of Service of the original data sources (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, etc.). [...] In the event of termination, you must cease all use of the Platform, delete any retained API result data if requested [...]
Plan
PayRp0
You get600 requests a month
Enough for600 calls a month
Expiresend of the month, no rollover
Rate limit
Per second1.67
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: page
MethodGET
Path/v1/search-tools:hackernews/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over, or with a guardian's consent, the Free tier is for evaluation, prototype development, hobby use, academic research and small-scale independent developers
The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

link URL, permalink, title, author username, score, comment count, created at, page number, results returned, total results, has more, next page

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