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Zhihu pricing: web search API

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33% complete: 2 of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Zhihu through our web search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 778 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.844 or less per 1,000 searches. See the best free web search API plan.SerpScraper.dev's $499 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033. Octen's top-up plan costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $5.00.Clawifi, SerpScraper.dev and browserfoundry by keirolabs are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest Zhihu plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Daily free quota, “每日免费额度” on Zhihu's pricing page one of Zhihu's 2 plans
Call: GET /api/v1/content/global_search Zhihu's only call for this API
API: Web search API one of Zhihu's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 2 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Author, Text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 5,000 requests a day.
  • One call. You send Query and the X-Request-Timestamp header to GET /api/v1/content/global_search. You set the Content-Type header to "application/json". You can also send Count, Filter and SearchDB. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Zhihu: web search API alternatives

Zhihu alternatives: other web search API providers by price

The table starts with Zhihu's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Zhihu's.

Zhihu, top-upScrapeNest, $599 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/search/deep, Deep SearchSearlo, $74.99 pack, Scale, POST /search-and-scrape, Search and Scrape, fullAnakin, $300 monthly, Advanced (social data)Scrapingdog, $90 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$1.795$1.797$1.80$1.80$1.80
Completeness33%17%17%33%0%
Billingpay firstmonthlypay firstmonthlymonthly
Payany amount$599$74.99$300$90
Enough foras many as you pay forabout 333,333 calls a monthabout 41,666 callsabout 166,666 calls a month50,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownliveunknownunknownunknown
Who can get itanyone with a Zhihu account (the platform is open to every user: an Access Secret is made in the personal center)anyoneanyone at least 18 years oldanyone 18 or older, for professional, commercial or business useanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

  1. developer.zhihu.com
  2. developer.zhihu.com/docs?key=authorization
  3. developer.zhihu.com/docs?key=billing_price
  4. developer.zhihu.com/docs?key=global_search
  5. developer.zhihu.com/docs?key=quota
  6. zhihu.com/term/zhihu-terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Date, not in the answer
  • Author
  • Text
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Answer, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search20
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitch全网搜索是专为大模型设计的高可信搜索引擎。通过整合知乎站内高质量问答与全网权威信源，为AI应用提供结构化、可溯源、高信源的内容输入。
Data
Keep datano limit
Use data转载在知乎平台之外，无论出于商业或非商业目的，均应联系原作者获得单独授权，并注明原作者姓名及原始链接，注明「发表于知乎」；未经知乎的书面许可，不得用于自己的网站、用于技术（包括但不限于大语言模型、其他人工智能、算法模型等）研发或数据训练或者用于其他商业目的
Plan
Pay$0
You get5,000 requests a day
Enough for5,000 calls a day
Expiresat 00:00 Beijing time, when the daily quota resets, unused calls don't carry over
Rate limit
Per day5,000
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.60 s
The call
You sendQuery, X-Request-Timestamp header, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: Count, Filter, SearchDB
MethodGET
Path/api/v1/content/global_search
About the plan
PlanDaily free quota
Who can get itanyone with a Zhihu account (the platform is open to every user: an Access Secret is made in the personal center)
The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

page title, content type, content ID, snippet, URL, comment count, upvotes, author name, author profile picture, author badge, author badge text, edited at, featured comments, authority level, has more

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