# Diffbot vs Jina Reader (slim)

> Diffbot scores 54.3 (C) to Jina Reader's 45.1 (E) for scraping. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-09

Diffbot scores 54.3 (C) on agent readiness against Jina Reader's 45.1 (E), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Jina Reader leads on reliability, agent ergonomics, security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do scraping.

- Diffbot: C 54.3, rank #687 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/diffbot.min.md
- Jina Reader: E 45.1, rank #871 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader.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 Schema & documentation, 83 against 43; Payments & pricing, 40 against 35; Transparency & trust, 68 against 58. Also Free to start without a card; No incidents deducted, where Jina Reader loses 7 points for them.
- Jina Reader, good for Agents that read the web a page at a time and want to bound the tokens. Ahead on Reliability, 60 against 55; Agent ergonomics, 76 against 63; Security & auth, 32 against 21; Maintenance & community, 65 against 57. Also Open source.

| Category | Diffbot | Jina Reader |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 55 | 60 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 83 | 43 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 76 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 21 | 32 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 57 | 65 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 68 | 58 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Diffbot | Jina Reader |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Diffbot Technologies Corp. | Jina AI (Elastic) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.diffbot.com/v3` | `https://r.jina.ai/` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Diffbot's Terms of Use. The Python client, the TypeScript client and the agent skills are MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-06-15 | 2026-09-18 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-05-04 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-29 | 2026-09-07 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 9 npm/wk, 45 PyPI/wk | 12k stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (2) |