# Bright Data vs Diffbot (slim)

> Bright Data scores 59.8 (C) to Diffbot's 54.3 (C) for scraping. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Bright Data scores 59.8 (C) on agent readiness against Diffbot's 54.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Diffbot leads on reliability, schema & documentation and transparency & trust. Both do scraping.

- Bright Data: C 59.8, rank #537 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bright-data.min.md
- Diffbot: C 54.3, rank #687 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/diffbot.min.md
- Bright Data, good for Hard targets and site-specific structured data (Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google Maps) at volume. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 82 against 63; Security & auth, 57 against 21; Maintenance & community, 84 against 57.
- Diffbot, good for Agents that want typed article, product or discussion data from arbitrary pages without writing selectors, and teams that also want the Knowledge Graph. Ahead on Reliability, 55 against 35; Schema & documentation, 83 against 74; Transparency & trust, 68 against 59.

| Category | Bright Data | Diffbot |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 35 | 55 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 74 | 83 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 82 | 63 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 21 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 84 | 57 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 59 | 68 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Bright Data | Diffbot |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Bright Data | Diffbot Technologies Corp. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.brightdata.com/request` | `https://api.diffbot.com/v3` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Licence | none | Proprietary service under Diffbot's Terms of Use. The Python client, the TypeScript client and the agent skills are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 69 | none |
| MCP registry | `io.github.brightdata/brightdata-mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-09-15 | 2026-06-15 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-06-16 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-14 | 2025-08-29 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 2.6k stars | 9 npm/wk, 45 PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | none |