# Diffbot vs Firecrawl MCP (slim)

> Firecrawl MCP scores 75.3 (BB) to Diffbot's 54.3 (C) for extraction. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Firecrawl MCP scores 75.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Diffbot's 54.3 (C), and leads in every scored category. Both do extraction.

- Diffbot: C 54.3, rank #687 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/diffbot.min.md
- Firecrawl MCP: BB 75.3, rank #50 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firecrawl-mcp.min.md
- 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. Also Free to start without a card.
- Firecrawl MCP, good for Agents that need the whole pipeline (find URLs, scrape to markdown, crawl, monitor) from one server, and for trying without an account. Ahead on Reliability, 70 against 55; Schema & documentation, 88 against 83; Agent ergonomics, 92 against 63; Security & auth, 67 against 21; Payments & pricing, 50 against 40; Maintenance & community, 87 against 57; Transparency & trust, 74 against 68. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Runs on your own machine; Open source.

| Category | Diffbot | Firecrawl MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 55 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 83 | 88 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 92 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 21 | 67 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 57 | 87 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 68 | 74 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Diffbot | Firecrawl MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |
| Vendor | Diffbot Technologies Corp. | Firecrawl (Mendable) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.diffbot.com/v3` | `https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP | stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Price for extraction | $0.90 per 1,000 pages | not published |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Diffbot's Terms of Use. The Python client, the TypeScript client and the agent skills are MIT | MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 26 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.firecrawl/firecrawl-mcp-server` |
| Last release | 2026-06-15 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2024-11-05 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-29 | 2024-12-26 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 9 npm/wk, 45 PyPI/wk | 7.5k stars, 29k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (8) |