Zhihu pricing: Zhihu question answer API
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$0.00per 1,000 answersWe haven't run a Zhihu question answer API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 29 plans for Zhihu question answer APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.60 or less per 1,000 answers.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. InsightSocial's $95.88 yearly plan costs the least for 10,000 answers a month: $7.99.
Plan: Daily free quota, “每日免费额度” on Zhihu's pricing page one of Zhihu's 2 plans
Call:
GET / Zhihu's only call for this APIAPI: Zhihu question answer API one of Zhihu's 2 APIs
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 1 of the 4 fields on our checklist. Text.
- Nothing to pay. You get 100 requests a day, enough for 100 pages.
- One call. You send
QuestionUrland theX-Request-Timestampheader toGET /. You can also sendapi/ v1/ content/ question_ answers OffsetandLimit. The call returns the question's answers. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Zhihu: Zhihu question answer API alternatives
Zhihu alternatives: other Zhihu question answer API providers by price
The table starts with Zhihu's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 answers closest to Zhihu's.
| Zhihu, top-up | Qovia, top-up | DataXAPI, $500 pack | AIsa, $19 monthly | SandBase, top-up | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 answers | $0.06 | $0.05 | $0.083 | $0.127 | $0.20 |
| Completeness | 25% | 100% | 75% | 0% | 25% |
| Billing | pay first | pay first | pay first | monthly | pay first |
| Pay | any amount | any amount | $500 | $19 | any amount |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | as many as you pay for | 300,000 pages | 30,000 pages a month | as many as you pay for |
| Freshness | unknown | live | live | unknown | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone with a Zhihu account (the platform is open to every user: an Access Secret is made in the personal center) | anyone with an account | anyone with an account | anyone 13 or over (a parent or guardian standing for a younger user who can't contract alone) | anyone at least 18 and legally able to enter a contract |
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.
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, not in the answer
- Author, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 answers | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | page of 50 |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: Question recommendations API |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | 获取一个知乎问题下的回答列表。 |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | 转载在知乎平台之外，无论出于商业或非商业目的，均应联系原作者获得单独授权，并注明原作者姓名及原始链接，注明「发表于知乎」；未经知乎的书面许可，不得用于自己的网站、用于技术（包括但不限于大语言模型、其他人工智能、算法模型等）研发或数据训练或者用于其他商业目的 |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 100 requests a day |
| Enough for | 100 pages a day |
| Expires | at 00:00 Beijing time, when the daily quota resets, unused calls don't carry over |
| Per day | 100 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | QuestionUrl, X-Request-Timestamp header. Optional: Offset, Limit |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /api/v1/content/question_answers |
| Plan | Daily free quota |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone with a Zhihu account (the platform is open to every user: an Access Secret is made in the personal center) (100 calls a day per tenant by default, 10 for low-quota users, such as accounts that haven't verified their real name) |
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold
answer ID, answer URL, excerpt, content type, has more, next cursor, total results