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DataXAPI pricing and alternatives: Zhihu question answer API

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75% complete: 3 of the 4 key fields we checkSee the 4 fields
$0.00per 1,000 answersWe rank 15 plans by price. Qovia's top-up costs the least per 1,000 answers: $0.05. Qovia charges for each page of results. We count 20 answers on each page to get the $0.05 price.
Plan: Free credit one of DataXAPI's 7 plans
Call: GET /v1/zhihu/questions/answers/list DataXAPI's only call for this API
API: Zhihu question answer API one of DataXAPI's 44 APIs

About this item

  • Live. You get the answers from Zhihu when you call the API.
  • 3 of the 4 key fields we check. Text, Engagement, Author.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $0.10 of credit once, enough for 50 pages. Credit never expires.
  • One call. You send id or url to GET /v1/zhihu/questions/answers/list. The call returns the question's answers.
  • Who can get it: anyone with an email address, one free credit per email. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

DataXAPI: Zhihu question answer API alternatives

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

DataXAPI, $500 packQovia, top-upProLevelMax, $10,000 pack
$ per 1,000 answers$0.083$0.05$0.522
Completeness75%100%75%
Billingpay firstpay firstpay first
Pay$500any amount$10,000
Enough for300,000 pagesas many as you pay forabout 3,833,333 pages
Freshnesslivelivelive
Who can get itanyone with an accountanyone with an accountanyone who sends the Contact sales form (company, work email, top-up amount, use case), paid by bank transfer and invoiced

Zhihu question answer API pricing: plans compared

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-01.

  1. dataxapi.com
  2. dataxapi.com/acceptable-use
  3. dataxapi.com/apis/zhihu/questions/answers/list.md
  4. dataxapi.com/docs/billing.md
  5. dataxapi.com/docs/rate-limits/
  6. dataxapi.com/llms.txt
  7. dataxapi.com/pricing.md
  8. dataxapi.com/terms

Product details

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

  • Text
  • Media, not in the answer
  • Engagement
  • Author
Price
$ per 1,000 answers$0.00
Perpage of 20
Billingfree
Charges
Repeat free24 hours
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 223 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGet the first 20 answers to a Zhihu question by ID or link, in Zhihu's own order: text, author, upvotes, comment and save counts.
Data
Freshnesslive
Use dataYou must use the data lawfully, including the laws on personal data that apply to you. You may not use the service to build files on individuals, to harass or track a person, to send unsolicited messages, or to resell access to the service as it is. [...] Public availability does not create unrestricted republication, resale, database or model-training rights. You must establish rights for your intended use and meet the duties you owe your own users. [...] Access to data does not by itself grant rights to redistribute, resell or train on the underlying content. [...] What you may not do: Retrieve private accounts, private messages, deleted content or anything else that is not public, get around sign-in, access, payment or rights restrictions, submit platform passwords, cookies or private login credentials. Harass, stalk or track a person, or expose a private identity or private contact details, build files on individuals for surveillance, for discriminatory decisions or to infer sensitive traits, collect data about minors in a way that puts them at risk. Collect, disclose or trade personal information without a proper basis, infringe copyright, trademarks or other rights, present the availability of an endpoint as official authorization or as unrestricted permission. Fake engagement, spam or unsolicited messages, fraud, impersonation, any unlawful activity, or helping others get around a restriction that has been imposed. Attack the service or anyone else's systems, try to reach another account, spread malware, get around rate limits, run up costs on purpose, or sell or rent API keys. Resell access to the service as it is, or let your account serve as an unrestricted anonymous channel for others. Sign up repeatedly, or use false email or identity links, to receive free credit more than once, falsify payment, complaint or authorization evidence.
Plan
Pay$0
You get$0.10
Enough for50 pages, once
Expiresnever
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendone of id or url
MethodGET
Path/v1/zhihu/questions/answers/list
About the plan
PlanFree credit
Who can get itanyone with an email address, one free credit per email
The 29 fields the plan's answer can hold

answer ID, answer URL, content type, title, text, created at, author ID, author username, author name, author profile picture, author followers, upvotes, comment count, save count, root post ID, parent ID, request ID, amount charged, credits remaining, from cache, replayed, result status, warnings, unavailable fields, fetched at, endpoint, approximate numbers, next cursor, has more

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