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SocialToAI pricing: Zhihu profile API

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50% complete: 2 of the 4 fields on our checklistSee the 4 fields
$0.00per 1,000 profilesWe haven't run a Zhihu profile API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 36 plans for Zhihu profile APIs by price. Half the plans cost $5.833 per 1,000 profiles or less.EveryInfra's $500 pack costs the least per 1,000 profiles: $0.50.
Type a number to see the cheapest SocialToAI plan for that many profiles. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of SocialToAI's 4 plans
Call: POST /v1/user_profile SocialToAI's only call for this API
API: Zhihu profile API one of SocialToAI's 44 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the profile from Zhihu when you call the API.
  • 2 of the 4 fields on our checklist. Bio, Followers.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits once, enough for 50 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send username to POST /v1/user_profile. You set platform to "zhihu". The call returns the account's profile.
  • Who can get it: anyone who signs in with a Google account or an email code. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SocialToAI: Zhihu profile API alternatives

SocialToAI alternatives: other Zhihu profile API providers by price

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

SocialToAI, $200 packQovia, top-upDataXAPI, $50 packRedFox, top-up from CNY 100SpiderHubs, $29 pack
$ per 1,000 profiles$4.00$1.00$2.00$8.974$64.444
Completeness50%100%100%75%75%
Billingpay firstpay firstpay firstpay firstpay first
Pay$200any amount$50CNY 100$29
Enough for50,000 callsas many as you pay for25,000 callsas many as you pay for450 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone who signs in with a Google account or an email codeanyone with an accountanyone with an accountanyoneanyone

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. socialtoai.com/docs/credits-and-billing
  2. socialtoai.com/docs/data-and-usage
  3. socialtoai.com/linkedin-user-profile-api
  4. socialtoai.com/pricing
  5. socialtoai.com/terms
  6. socialtoai.com/zhihu-user-profile-api

Product details

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

  • Bio
  • Photo, not in the answer
  • Followers
  • Posts, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 profiles$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Repeat free5 minutes
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 215 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGet any public Zhihu account by handle and get back name, bio and followers, as JSON over HTTP or from your AI client over MCP.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataUse the service lawfully and within the published rate limits. Do not try to identify the people behind anonymised comments, do not resell or share keys, and do not use the service to harass anyone. You are responsible for complying with the laws that apply to your use of the data.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough for50 calls, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second5
Concurrent5
The call
You sendplatform "zhihu", username
MethodPOST
Path/v1/user_profile
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone who signs in with a Google account or an email code
The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

user ID, username, name, profile URL, bio, followers, request ID, fetched at, result status, warnings, unavailable fields, approximate numbers, replayed, credits used, credits remaining

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