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9 Zhihu alternatives in 2026

Zhihu alternatives for Zhihu question answer APIs. AIsa and AnyAPI have free plans. Qovia costs $0.05 per 1,000 answers. Zhihu's website is developer.zhihu.com.

Zhihu question answer API alternatives

On our Zhihu plan pages, we compare each Zhihu plan with other providers' plans. We list other providers' plans below, cheapest per 1,000 answers first.

Provider and plan$ per 1,000 answers
AIsa, free$0.00
AnyAPI, free, Starting balance$0.00
Qovia, top-up$0.05
DataXAPI, $500 pack$0.083
SandBase, top-up$0.20

Compare every Zhihu question answer API plan: Zhihu question answer API pricing: free and cheapest plans compared

Web search API alternatives

On our Zhihu plan pages, we compare each Zhihu plan with other providers' plans. We list other providers' plans below, cheapest per 1,000 searches first.

Provider and plan$ per 1,000 searches
ScrapeNest, $599 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/search/deep, Deep Search$1.80
Searlo, $74.99 pack, Scale, POST /search-and-scrape, Search and Scrape, full$1.80
Anakin, $300 monthly, Advanced (social data)$1.80
Scrapingdog, $90 monthly$1.80

Compare every web search API plan: Web search API pricing: free and cheapest plans compared

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