知乎 / Zhihu API - 搜索、回答文章、评论、用户数据 alternatives: recorded billing and usage (2026-10)

Compare 11 zhihu.com alternatives to 知乎 / Zhihu API - 搜索、回答文章、评论、用户数据, ranked by 30-day users; see recorded pricing models, billing events, observation dates and public-run success.

Baseline

知乎 / Zhihu API - 搜索、回答文章、评论、用户数据 (socialdatax/socialdatax-zhihu-data-api) had 290 users and 98.0% success across 2,697 public runs in 30 days.

Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $3.99. USD / run start: <$0.001.

Selected event: Dataset item (apify-default-dataset-item)

Event details

Charged once per result collected.

Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown

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Filters apply only to the 11 displayed alternatives (at most 50), in the original usage order. Blank thresholds include unavailable evidence; active thresholds exclude it. Recorded zero is distinct from unavailable. Success measures public-run completion, not output accuracy.

Alternative	Users 30d	Success 30d	Runs 30d	Recorded billing / observation	Observed success compared with baseline
Zhihu Scraper (知乎) \| Search, Answers, Comments & Profiles zen-studio/zhihu-scraper Compare with 知乎 / Zhihu API - 搜索、回答文章、评论、用户数据	67	98.2%	1,155	Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $2.99. USD / run start: $0.001. Selected event: Saved result (result-scraped) Event details One saved Zhihu content, comment, reply, or profile record. Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown	Higher observed success: +0.18 percentage points
Zhihu Scraper 2026 devcake/zhihu-scraper Compare with 知乎 / Zhihu API - 搜索、回答文章、评论、用户数据	65	88.9%	208	Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $3.00. USD / run start: <$0.001. Selected event: Standard result (standard-result) 1 additional listed charge events One saved search, content, Hot List, question-answer, or creator record. Comment or reply (comment-result) Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown	—
Zhihu Scraper — Q&A, Answers, Articles, Columns sian.agency/zhihu-scraper Compare with 知乎 / Zhihu API - 搜索、回答文章、评论、用户数据	49	99.6%	253	Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $12.00. USD / run start: $0.14. Selected event: Search Result (search-result) 3 additional listed charge events Charged per row returned from a Zhihu keyword search (answers, questions, articles, people). Question Answer (answer-list-result) Article Detail (article-detail-result) Column Article (column-article-result) Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown	Higher observed success: +1.61 percentage points
Zhihu Scraper 知乎 [Only $3] Answers, Comments, Search 回答评论搜索 memo23/zhihu-scraper Compare with 知乎 / Zhihu API - 搜索、回答文章、评论、用户数据	17	100.0%	43	Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $3.00. USD / run start: $0.005. Selected event: Row (apify-default-dataset-item) Event details One Zhihu row: an article, question, answer, comment, person, topic, column or hot-list entry. Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown	Higher observed success: +2.00 percentage points
Zhihu Scraper [Just 💰$3] — Hot List, Q&A & Author Profiles blackfalcondata/zhihu-scraper Compare with 知乎 / Zhihu API - 搜索、回答文章、评论、用户数据	6	97.4%	38	Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $3.00. USD / run start: $0.010. Selected event: Result (apify-default-dataset-item) Event details Single result in the default dataset. Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown	—
Zhihu Q&A Tracker - China Hot List & Knowledge Mining nexgendata/zhihu-qa-tracker Compare with 知乎 / Zhihu API - 搜索、回答文章、评论、用户数据	2	96.8%	31	Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $100.00. USD / run start: $0.010. Selected event: Zhihu Q&A record (apify-default-dataset-item) Event details Charged per Q&A record returned with question_title, question_url, question_id, category, answer_count, top_answer_excerpt (500 chars of highest-voted answer), top_answer_author, top_answer_voteup_count, view_count, is_hot and created_at. Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown	—
Zhihu 知乎 Scraper - Questions, Answers, Comments & Users vulnv/zhihu-scraper Compare with 知乎 / Zhihu API - 搜索、回答文章、评论、用户数据	2	100.0%	23	Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $3.00. USD / run start: Unavailable. Selected event: Search result (search-result) 4 additional listed charge events Cost per answer or article returned from keyword search. Question detail (question-detail) Answer (answer) Comment (comment) User profile (user-profile) Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown	Higher observed success: +2.00 percentage points
Zhihu Scraper (知乎) — Hot List, Columns, Answers bossless/zhihu-scraper Compare with 知乎 / Zhihu API - 搜索、回答文章、评论、用户数据	1	—	6	Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $3.50. USD / run start: <$0.001. Selected event: Article, answer, question or profile (result) 2 additional listed charge events One Zhihu article or answer (with full text), question, column or member profile saved to the output. Hot-list item, hot search or suggestion (trending) AI tags (optional) (ai-enrichment) Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown	—
Zhihu 知乎 Scraper - Answers, Articles, Comments & Hot List clover_folktale/zhihu-scraper Compare with 知乎 / Zhihu API - 搜索、回答文章、评论、用户数据	1	—	6	Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $4.00. USD / run start: $0.005. Selected event: Result (result) 1 additional listed charge events One answer, article, pin, comment, hot-list entry or user delivered to the dataset. Run start (run-start) Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown	—
Zhihu Search Scraper: Q&A maximedupre/zhihu Compare with 知乎 / Zhihu API - 搜索、回答文章、评论、用户数据	1	90.9%	33	Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $3.55. USD / run start: Unavailable. Selected event: Content match (zhihu-content-search-match) 9 additional listed charge events One public answer, question, article, video, or column returned by a keyword search or selected content type. Hot question (zhihu-hot-question) Answer (zhihu-question-answer) Article detail (zhihu-article-detail) Column article (zhihu-column-article) Video (zhihu-video) Comment (zhihu-comment) Comment reply (zhihu-comment-reply) Creator profile (zhihu-creator-profile) Creator article (zhihu-creator-article) Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown	—
Zhihu Scraper (知乎): Answers, Questions, Users, Search & Hot openclawai/zhihu-scraper Compare with 知乎 / Zhihu API - 搜索、回答文章、评论、用户数据	1	100.0%	21	Pricing model: PAY_PER_EVENT. USD / 1,000 primary events: $0.50. USD / run start: Unavailable. Selected event: Comment (comment-scraped) 4 additional listed charge events One comment or reply. User in a list (user-listed) Single lookup (item-lookup) Hot-list question (list-item) Zhihu answer or article (post-scraped) Observation date unknown · Observed: unknown	Higher observed success: +2.00 percentage points

Ranked by 30-day users, with actor ID breaking ties. Rates are recorded list-tier USD amounts per 1,000 selected primary billing events, not inferred output counts. Even matching billing units do not prove equivalent output or total cost. Pricing models, event definitions, features, run-start charges, additional charge events and platform fees can differ. Unavailable means no known recorded rate; zero event rates and explicit FREE models are shown separately. No price ranking is made. Success highlights require 20+ public runs for each tool. Public runs have different workloads, so higher observed success does not guarantee better reliability for your use case. Tools share a target-site category and may serve different tasks. You are responsible for complying with zhihu.com's terms and applicable law. Methodology.

Carried forward means retained from an earlier fetch; pricing and usage may have changed, or the listing may be absent from today's fetch. Unknown observation dates remain unknown. Dataset file dates and tool build dates are not tool observation dates.

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