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How much does a WeChat Official Account article API cost?
Short answer
Three prices on okdata: account search is $0.058 per account returned (at most $0.58 a call), an article-history page of 10 is $0.04, and one article's full text is $0.02. Listing 1,000 articles costs $4.00; their full text adds $20.00. No plan or minimum, and failed calls are free.
You pay per call, and for WeChat there are only three calls to price. Finding an account, listing its articles and reading an article's full text each have one price, and the bill for any job is those three multiplied out. There is no monthly plan, no minimum top-up and no charge for calls that fail.
The three prices
| What | Endpoint | Price | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Find accounts by name or keyword | Official Account search | $0.058 per account returned, at most $0.58 a call | $58.00 per 1,000 accounts |
| List an account's articles, 10 a page | Article history | $0.04 per page | $4.00 per 1,000 articles listed |
| Full text of one article | Article detail | $0.02 per article | $20.00 per 1,000 articles |
The list already carries title, link, summary, publish time, and reads and likes where available. Many jobs never need full text.
What typical jobs cost
| Job | Calls | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| One account's newest 20 articles with full text | 1 search + 2 lists + 20 details | {{cost:wechat_mp.accounts.search1+wechat_mp.accounts.articles.list2+wechat_mp.articles.get*20}} |
| 10 competitors checked daily for 30 days, list only | 300 lists | $12.00 |
| Knowledge base of 1,000 articles | 100 lists + 1,000 details | {{cost:wechat_mp.accounts.articles.list100+wechat_mp.articles.get1000}} |
| Reads of the last 50 articles on 20 accounts | 100 lists | $4.00 |
Search costs in the first row assume a full page of results; searching an exact name usually returns fewer accounts and costs less.
Check the price before you spend
# The live price list, no key needed
curl -s "https://okdata.online/prices.json"
# Every response states what it cost in meta.billing.amount
curl -G "https://api.okdata.online/v1/wechat_mp/accounts/articles/list" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OKDATA_API_KEY" \
--data-urlencode "id=gh_363b924965e9"
What you don't pay for
- Errors of any kind, including deleted articles (
not_found), busy upstreams and timeouts. - Retries with the same Idempotency-Key within 24 hours: the stored result comes back free.
- Looking things up first: the MCP
findanddescribetools and the price list are free.
New keys start with $0.10 of credit. One catch: while a search runs, the full $0.58 it could cost is held from your balance, so search needs at least that much on the key; the trial credit covers article history and detail calls. Top-ups take Alipay, WeChat Pay or card.
How it compares
If the account is yours, WeChat's official API is free and gives you more, including exact analytics. Self-hosted tools such as wewe-rss or we-mp-rss cost nothing in fees but need a WeChat login kept alive, and your time when it breaks. WeChat calls are among the priciest in the catalog; Bilibili and Weibo calls cost much less, see the pricing page. For recurring monitoring patterns, see competitor monitoring.
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