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InsightSocial 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 9 plans by price. InsightSocial's $9.99 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 answers: $0.50. InsightSocial charges for each page of results. We count 20 answers on each page to get the $0.50 price.
Plan: Free one of InsightSocial's 10 plans
Call: GET /v1/zhihu/question/answers InsightSocial's only call for this API
API: Zhihu question answer API one of InsightSocial's 59 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 3 of the 4 key fields we check. Text, Engagement, Author.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 500 credits a month, enough for 50 pages. Monthly credits reset at the start of each calendar month and don't roll over.
  • One call. You send question_id to GET /v1/zhihu/question/answers. You can also send limit, order and dry_run. The call returns the question's answers.
  • Who can get it: anyone with a Google account. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

InsightSocial: Zhihu question answer API alternatives

The table starts with InsightSocial's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 answers closest to InsightSocial's. We also show the AnyAPI plan. Its price is farther from the price of InsightSocial's cheapest paid plan.

InsightSocial, $95.88 yearlyAnyAPI, free trial keyProLevelMax, $10,000 pack
$ per 1,000 answers$0.40$0.00$0.522
Completeness75%75%75%
Billingyearlyfreepay first
Pay$95.88$0$10,000
Enough for1,000 pages a monthabout 41 pages, onceabout 3,833,333 pages
Freshnessunknownunknownlive
Who can get itanyoneanyone 18 or over, with no account, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party listanyone 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. api.insightsocial.app/v1/endpoints
  2. api.insightsocial.app/v1/openapi.json
  3. insightsocial.app/docs/api-reference/zhihu/question-answers.md
  4. insightsocial.app/docs/caching
  5. insightsocial.app/docs/credits.md
  6. insightsocial.app/docs/data-availability.md
  7. insightsocial.app/docs/endpoint-pricing
  8. insightsocial.app/docs/rate-limits.md
  9. insightsocial.app/pricing
  10. insightsocial.app/privacy-policy
  11. insightsocial.app/social-media-api/linkedin

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 freenever
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 230 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchReturns up to 20 answers to a question, each with its text, author, votes, comments, saves and times.
Data
Use dataYou are responsible for using InsightSocial in compliance with the terms of service of each platform or site you scrape, and with applicable law (including data protection laws such as GDPR and CCPA where they apply to you) [...] You agree not to use the Service to harvest personal data for harassment, stalking, mass unsolicited contact, or any unlawful purpose.
Plan
Pay$0
You get500 credits a month
Enough for50 pages a month
Expiresmonthly credits reset at the start of each calendar month and don't roll over
Rate limit
Per second1
Concurrent10
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquestion_id. Optional: limit, order, dry_run
MethodGET
Path/v1/zhihu/question/answers
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone with a Google account
The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

replayed, answer ID, answer URL, text, created at, edited at, upvotes, comment count, save count, author ID, author username, author name, author profile picture

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