# How much does it cost to collect 1,000 comments from TikTok, YouTube or Douyin?

> What 1,000 comments cost on TikTok, YouTube, Douyin, Bilibili and Xiaohongshu through one API, why the price per comment differs, and a script that stops at 1,000.

Canonical page: https://okdata.online/answers/social-media-comments-cost-per-1000/

**Short answer: **On okdata, 1,000 TikTok comments cost $0.04, Douyin $0.10, Bilibili $0.10, YouTube $0.20 and Xiaohongshu $2.00. You pay per page of comments, not per comment, so the page size matters as much as the price: a TikTok page holds about 50 comments for $0.002, a Xiaohongshu page about 10 for $0.02.

A thousand comments is roughly what it takes to see patterns in how people talk about a product: the complaints that repeat, the questions nobody answers, the words buyers use. Collecting them costs $0.04 on TikTok and $2.00 on Xiaohongshu, with the other platforms in between or close to it.

## Price per 1,000 comments

Each comment endpoint charges per call, and one call returns one page. Platforms put different numbers of comments on a page, which is why the cost per comment varies more than the call price suggests.

| Platform | Endpoint | Per call | Comments per call | 1,000 comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TikTok | [TikTok video comments](/apis/tiktok/videos/comments/list/) | $0.002 | 50 | $0.04 |
| Douyin | [Douyin video comments](/apis/douyin/videos/comments/list/) | $0.002 | 20 | $0.10 |
| Bilibili | [Bilibili video comments](/apis/bilibili/videos/comments/list/) | $0.002 | 20 | $0.10 |
| YouTube | [YouTube video comments](/apis/youtube/videos/comments/list/) | $0.004 | 20 | $0.20 |
| Xiaohongshu | [Xiaohongshu note comments](/apis/xiaohongshu/notes/comments/list/) | $0.02 | 10 | $2.00 |

A realistic Douyin job, one keyword search and then 250 comments from each of 20 videos (5,000 comments), comes to $0.52.

## Stop at exactly what you need

```python
import os, requests
from decimal import Decimal

URL = "https://api.okdata.online/v1/douyin/videos/comments/list"
H = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OKDATA_API_KEY']}"}

def collect(video_id, target=1000):
    comments, cursor, spent = [], None, Decimal("0")
    while len(comments) < target:
        params = {"id": video_id, "sort": "hot", **({"cursor": cursor} if cursor else {})}
        body = requests.get(URL, headers=H, params=params, timeout=60).json()
        if body["code"] != "ok":
            raise RuntimeError(f"{body['code']}: {body['message']}")
        comments += body["data"]["items"]
        spent += Decimal(body["meta"]["billing"]["amount"])
        if not body["page"]["has_more"]:
            break
        cursor = body["page"]["next_cursor"]
    return comments[:target], spent
```

## Things that change the bill

- A video with 120 comments stops after a few pages and costs less than the table says.
- These endpoints return top-level comments with a reply count; replies are not fetched separately.
- Only public comments come back. A deleted video returns `not_found`, which is free.

## Other routes

For YouTube alone, the [official YouTube Data API](https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/getting-started) is free within its default daily quota, and listing comments is a cheap read there; if you already have a Google Cloud project, start with it. Open-source crawlers such as MediaCrawler can collect Douyin, Bilibili and Xiaohongshu comments with your own logged-in account, at no cost per call but with your time and account at stake. For the analysis side, see [word-of-mouth research](/solutions/word-of-mouth/); every price lives on the [pricing page](/pricing/).

## Endpoints used

- [TikTok video comments](https://okdata.online/apis/tiktok/videos/comments/list/) `tiktok.videos.comments.list`: $0.002 per call · about 50 comments per page
- [YouTube video comments](https://okdata.online/apis/youtube/videos/comments/list/) `youtube.videos.comments.list`: $0.004 per call · about 20 comments per page
- [Douyin video comments](https://okdata.online/apis/douyin/videos/comments/list/) `douyin.videos.comments.list`: $0.002 per call · about 20 comments per page
- [Bilibili video comments](https://okdata.online/apis/bilibili/videos/comments/list/) `bilibili.videos.comments.list`: $0.002 per call · about 20 comments per page
- [Xiaohongshu note comments](https://okdata.online/apis/xiaohongshu/notes/comments/list/) `xiaohongshu.notes.comments.list`: $0.02 per call · about 10 comments per page

Updated 2026-11-12