# Diffbot vs jevcrawl (slim)

> jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) to Diffbot's 54.3 (C) for extraction. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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jevcrawl scores 63.7 (B) on agent readiness against Diffbot's 54.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Diffbot leads on payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do extraction.

- Diffbot: C 54.3, rank #736 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/diffbot.min.md
- jevcrawl: B 63.7, rank #409 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jevcrawl.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. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Transparency & trust, 68 against 45. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.
- jevcrawl, good for An agent that must find one answer several clicks deep on a documentation or help site and wants a few thousand tokens back instead of whole pages. Ahead on Reliability, 68 against 55; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 63; Security & auth, 59 against 21; Maintenance & community, 68 against 57. Also Runs on your own machine; Open source.

| Category | Diffbot | jevcrawl |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 55 | 68 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 83 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 80 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 21 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 57 | 68 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 68 | 45 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Diffbot | jevcrawl |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | MCP server |
| Vendor | Diffbot Technologies Corp. | Rayen Mlayeh |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.diffbot.com/v3` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP | stdio |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| 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 | Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | none | 3 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-06-15 | 2026-10-15 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-29 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | 9 npm/wk, 45 PyPI/wk | 60 stars, 204 PyPI/wk |