# Qovia, free: Zhihu question answer API

> Answers to one question, up to 20: text (plain text, its images listed apart), author (with followers), upvotes, comments, saves, published and edited times, as the same records as answer detail (same ids).

Qovia's Zhihu question answer API on its Trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 answers. It returns all 4 key fields we check: Text, Media, Engagement, Author.
We rank 15 plans by price. [Qovia's top-up](https://datacircle.dev/zhihu-question-answer-apis/qovia/top-up/llms.txt) 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.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/zhihu-question-answer-apis/qovia/free
- Get it: https://qovia.ai/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.qovia.ai/v1/raw/zhihu/answers`
- API key: with the plan, on https://qovia.ai/pricing
- Its API docs: https://qovia.ai/docs/api-reference/raw.zhihu.answers
- Sold by: Qovia (https://qovia.ai)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Text: ✓
- Media: ✓
- Engagement: ✓
- Author: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 answers: $0.00
- Per: page of 20
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 142 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Answers to one question, up to 20: text (plain text, its images listed apart), author (with followers), upvotes, comments, saves, published and edited times, as the same records as answer detail (same ids).

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Users are responsible for downstream use under applicable law and the source platforms' rules.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 50 requests
- Enough for: 50 pages, once

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: question_id. Optional: sort, count
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/raw/zhihu/answers

## About the plan

- Plan: Trial
- Who can get it: anyone with an account (new accounts get 50 trial calls)

## The 21 fields the plan's answer can hold

answer ID, answer URL, text, content type, question ID, question title, created at, edited at, upvotes, comment count, save count, image URLs, thumbnail, author ID, author username, author name, author followers, request ID, amount charged, credits remaining, fetched at

## Qovia's plans (2)

- [Qovia, free](https://datacircle.dev/zhihu-question-answer-apis/qovia/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Qovia, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/zhihu-question-answer-apis/qovia/top-up/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 100% complete, live

## Qovia's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/raw/zhihu/answers`: [Qovia, free](https://datacircle.dev/zhihu-question-answer-apis/qovia/free/llms.txt)

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- [DataXAPI, $500 pack](https://datacircle.dev/zhihu-question-answer-apis/dataxapi/500-pack/llms.txt): $0.083 per 1,000, 75% complete, live
- [ProLevelMax, $10,000 pack](https://datacircle.dev/zhihu-question-answer-apis/prolevelmax/10000-pack/llms.txt): $0.522 per 1,000, 75% complete, live

## 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.

- https://qovia.ai
- https://qovia.ai/docs
- https://qovia.ai/docs/api-reference/raw.zhihu.answers
- https://qovia.ai/pricing
- https://qovia.ai/terms