{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "diffbot", "name": "Diffbot", "vendor": "Diffbot Technologies Corp.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.diffbot.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "web-scrapers", "summary": "Diffbot is a hosted set of web data APIs from Diffbot Technologies Corp. of Menlo Park, California. Its Extract API classifies a page and returns typed JSON, alongside Crawl, Web Search, Natural Language and Knowledge Graph APIs.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/diffbot", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/diffbot.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/diffbot.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/diffbot.json", "dns": "diffbot.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/diffbot/diffbot-python", "license": "Proprietary service under Diffbot's Terms of Use. The Python client, the TypeScript client and the agent skills are MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.diffbot.com/v3", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "diffbot" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@diffbot/typescript" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Self-serve token from the dashboard at app.diffbot.com, sent as the `token` query parameter on Extract and Knowledge Graph calls. The official client sends it as a Bearer header to the Web Search endpoint. Tokens carry no scopes. Child tokens have the same rights as the primary token and can be created in the dashboard on the Plus plan and above, or through support. A changelog entry of 30 June 2025 is titled as adding labels and a disable switch for tokens in the dashboard.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan of 10,000 credits a month at 5 requests a minute, with no card, so an agent's owner can start without a contract. Startup is $299 a month for 250,000 credits with overage at $0.001 a credit, Plus $899 for 1,000,000 with overage at $0.0009 and access to Crawl, Enterprise by sales. One extracted page is 1 credit, or 2 through the data centre proxy. Whether a failed extraction uses a credit was not found (https://www.diffbot.com/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$1 / 1k pages", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on the pricing page, the authentication and rate limit docs, the Extract OpenAPI file or the official clients (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 9, "pypiWeekly": 45, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.diffbot.com/docs/", "llmsTxt": "https://www.diffbot.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://www.diffbot.com/openapi/extract.json", "capabilities": [ "web.extract", "web.scrape", "web.crawl", "scraping.proxies", "web.search", "data.knowledge", "data.company" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "api-key", "openapi", "llms-txt", "agent-skills", "cli", "python", "typescript", "proxies", "knowledge-graph", "status-page", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-06-15", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 54.3, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 830, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1268, "categoryRank": 18, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 57, "payments": 40, "reliability": 55, "schema": 83, "security": 21, "transparency": 68 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Extract returns typed JSON for articles, products, discussions and other page types with no selectors to write, under a public OpenAPI 3.1 contract and a free plan that needs no card. The API token travels in the URL query string, tokens carry no scopes, and no security page, certification or security.txt was found.", "bestFor": "Agents that want typed article, product or discussion data from arbitrary pages without writing selectors, and teams that also want the Knowledge Graph.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.1.0 description of the Extract APIs (version 1.1.0, 13 operations) is published at `/openapi/extract.json` and the reference pages are generated from it", "Free plan of 10,000 credits a month with no card, and a public credit table. One extracted page costs 1 credit, or 2 through the data centre proxy", "Official Python and TypeScript clients and ten agent skills, all MIT. The Python client reached 3.0.0 on 28 September 2026 with tests on Python 3.9 to 3.13", "Dated changelog with an RSS feed going back to 2015, and a `/v3` path for the Extract APIs", "The privacy policy of 29 August 2025 names each service provider, among them AWS, Stripe, Intercom and Salesforce, and says all are in the United States" ], "weaknesses": [ "The token is sent as the `token` query parameter on Extract and Knowledge Graph calls. It is the only scheme in the OpenAPI file", "Child tokens have the same access rights as the primary token, and creating them needs the Plus plan ($899 a month) or a request to support", "No security page, certification, bug bounty or security.txt was found on the pages read. The privacy policy says some API calls rely on HTTP without encryption", "The status page is a Pingdom report with seven days of uptime per check and no incident notes. Analyze API shows 99.69 per cent for the week to 9 October 2026", "The docs give `pip install diffbot-python` and `pnpm add diffbot-typescript`, while the repositories now name the packages `diffbot` and `@diffbot/typescript`", "The terms grant Diffbot a perpetual, irrevocable licence to process submitted queries, cap liability at $10, and forbid software that scrapes or crawls the Site or Service. That clause matters before any probe is run" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `GET https://api.diffbot.com/v3/analyze?url=\u003cencoded URL\u003e\u0026token=\u003ctoken\u003e` when the page type is unknown. Use `/v3/article` or `/v3/product` to force one schema", "Keep the token out of logs and shared URLs. It sits in the query string, so any proxy or log that records the request URL records the token", "Stay under 5 calls a minute on Free, 5 a second on Startup and 25 a second on Plus. On 429 wait at least one second and back off", "Check a 200 response for `errorCode`. The official client raises `ExtractionError` when a 200 reports a failed extraction", "Set `useProxy=default` only when a site blocks the fetch. A proxied page costs 2 credits against 1", "Install `diffbot` from PyPI, not `diffbot-python`, which stopped at 0.3.0" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 54.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 57, "payments": 40, "reliability": 55, "schema": 83, "security": 21, "transparency": 49 }, "provenanceScore": 87, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-09", "maintenance": "2026-10-09", "payments": "2026-10-09", "reliability": "2026-10-09", "schema": "2026-10-09", "security": "2026-10-09", "transparency": "2026-10-09" }, "last": "2026-10-09", "oldest": "2026-10-09", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "python3 -m pip install diffbot", "http": "curl --request GET \\\n --url 'https://api.diffbot.com/v3/analyze?token=\u003cDIFFBOT_TOKEN\u003e\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.diffbot.com%2Fdocs%2Fintroduction' \\\n --header 'accept: application/json'", "claudeCode": "/plugin marketplace add diffbot/diffbot-skills\n/plugin install diffbot@diffbot-skills" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.extract", "tool": "https://letme.dev/diffbot" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Extracted page, Startup overage", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 1, "note": "1 credit a page at $0.001 a credit" }, { "item": "Extracted page through the data centre proxy, Startup overage", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 2, "note": "2 credits a page" }, { "item": "Extracted page, Plus overage", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 0.9, "note": "1 credit a page at $0.0009 a credit" }, { "item": "Startup plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 299, "note": "250,000 credits, 5 requests a second" }, { "item": "Plus plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 899, "note": "1,000,000 credits, 25 requests a second, Crawl" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Diffbot Technologies Corp.", "domain": "diffbot.com", "domainRegistered": "2004-08-14", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.diffbot.com/company/terms", "privacy": "https://www.diffbot.com/company/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.diffbot.com", "changelog": "https://www.diffbot.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The Terms of Use name Diffbot Technologies Corp. as operator and cover both the Site and the Service, defined as the service that converts a web page into entities and facts. They are the only terms the site links, carry no date, and are the document that governs the API.", "The privacy policy was last updated on 29 August 2025, covers visitors, subscribers and people in the index, and gives the address 333 Ravenswood Ave, Menlo Park, CA 94025.", "www.diffbot.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404. No security or trust page is linked from the home page or footer.", "The Extract APIs answer at api.diffbot.com, the Knowledge Graph at kg.diffbot.com, Natural Language at nl.diffbot.com and Web Search at llm.diffbot.com, per the docs and the official client's defaults.", "RDAP at Verisign gives a registration date of 2004-08-14 for diffbot.com.", "robots.txt on www.diffbot.com allows every path. status.diffbot.com disallows only Alexabot." ], "score": 87 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/diffbot.json", "live": { "slug": "diffbot", "probe": { "target": "https://api.diffbot.com/v3", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-02T21:15:57.622022014Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 432, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 426, "p95ms24h": 534, "samples24h": 250, "samples30d": 6070, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-16", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 256, "ok": 256 }, { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 255, "ok": 255 }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-22", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-23", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-24", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-25", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-26", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-27", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-28", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-29", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-30", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-31", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-11-01", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-11-02", "probes": 222, "ok": 222 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.diffbot.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T18:55:27.385168358Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "diffbot/diffbot-python", "version": "v3.1.0", "released": "2026-10-29", "seenAt": "2026-11-02T19:13:39.248136467Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@diffbot/typescript", "version": "0.2.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-02T19:13:38.781653519Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "diffbot", "version": "3.1.0", "released": "2026-10-29", "seenAt": "2026-11-02T19:13:38.585156808Z" } ], "githubStars": 126, "npmWeekly": 8, "pypiWeekly": 102, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://diffbot.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T15:44:11.637239239Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://www.diffbot.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T15:16:39.14590691Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "diffbot.com", "registered": "2004-08-14", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/diffbot.com", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:13:22.626872253Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.diffbot.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T07:31:55.527133818Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-30T05:54:43.227180558Z", "fingerprint": "aafbed2345a0" }, { "url": "https://www.diffbot.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T07:32:01.70086729Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "86884503041e" }, { "url": "https://www.diffbot.com/company/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T07:31:57.948160202Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-17T23:15:07.243669117Z", "fingerprint": "53b83d48cccd" }, { "url": "https://www.diffbot.com/company/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T07:31:59.947778562Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a76686da1f94" } ], "github": { "repo": "diffbot/diffbot-python", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T08:44:16.252933242Z", "stars": 126, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-10-29T23:08:37Z", "openIssues": 0, "openPRs": 0, "issuesOpened90d": 0, "issuesClosed90d": 0, "prsMerged90d": 0, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 20, "success": 20, "failure": 0, "other": 0, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-10-29T23:07:32Z" } }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-02T21:15:57.622022014Z" } }, "answer": "Outcrawl scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against Diffbot's 54.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Diffbot leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "outcrawl", "name": "Outcrawl", "vendor": "Aeonmind LLC (Outcrawl)", "vendorUrl": "https://outcrawl.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "web-scrapers", "summary": "Outcrawl is a hosted web layer for AI agents with scrape, crawl, search, cloud browsers over CDP and agent runs on one credit balance, reached through a REST API, TypeScript and Python SDKs, a CLI and a remote MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outcrawl", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outcrawl.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outcrawl.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/outcrawl.json", "dns": "outcrawl.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/outcrawlai/scout", "license": "Proprietary hosted service under Aeonmind LLC's terms of service (last updated 1 November 2026). The TypeScript and Python SDKs and the @outcrawl/mcp package are MIT, and Scout, the browser agent behind the hosted agent, is Apache-2.0 in a read-only GitHub mirror", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@outcrawl/sdk" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "outcrawl" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Two bearer credentials. An API key shaped `ock_\u003ckeyId\u003e.\u003csecret\u003e` is minted in the console, shown once, stored as a digest, scoped to one workspace and revocable within a minute; it works on the REST API and the MCP server as `Authorization: Bearer`, with no per-key scopes or read-only keys documented. An OAuth 2.1 access token `oat_...` comes from signing in, through the authorization code flow with PKCE S256 and dynamic client registration for MCP clients (the server at https://api.outcrawl.ai/mcp answers 401 with protected-resource metadata naming https://outcrawl.ai/api/auth) or the RFC 8628 device flow for the CLI, with scopes `api` and `offline_access`, access tokens of one hour and refresh for 30 days while in use; removing a member from a workspace cuts their tokens off at once. Console sign-in is Google, GitHub, an email code or a magic link behind reCAPTCHA.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 1,000 credits a month, no card, 2 concurrent browsers and 120 requests a minute, on a person's first workspace only. Builder $49 a month for 10,000 credits (5 browsers, 300 requests a minute), Pro $199 for 50,000 (25, 1,500), Scale $799 for 250,000 (100, 6,000), Enterprise custom with a 99.9 per cent monthly uptime SLA. Rates in credits are the same on every plan, 1 a page for scrape, crawl and rendered search results, 5 per 10 search results, 1 a minute of browser time, 2,000 a GB of proxy traffic, 1 a monitor check, and agent runs at model usage plus browser time plus proxy usage, about 15 credits a minute as the vendor's estimate. Extra credits cost $49.00 per 10,000 on Builder and Free, $39.80 on Pro and $31.96 on Scale, never expire, and auto top-up is capped monthly. Every response carries a `usage` object with its cost; a cached scrape answer bills the same credit as a live fetch, a cancelled crawl keeps billing the pages it fetched, and a search every engine refuses bills nothing (https://outcrawl.ai/pricing and https://outcrawl.ai/docs/billing/pricing, checked 2026-11-02).", "priceSummary": "$4.90 / 1k pages", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI file, llms-full.txt, the pricing pages or the terms (checked 2026-11-02). Plans and top-ups are paid by card through Stripe in the console.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 29, "popularity": { "githubStars": 948, "npmWeekly": 53, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-02" }, "docsUrl": "https://outcrawl.ai/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://outcrawl.ai/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://outcrawl.ai/docs/api-reference/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "web.scrape", "web.crawl", "web.extract", "web.search", "browser.hosted", "browser.control", "scraping.proxies", "scraping.js-render", "scraping.anti-bot", "scraping.screenshot" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "openapi", "llms-txt", "mcp", "remote-mcp", "oauth", "api-key", "cli", "python", "typescript", "proxies", "browser", "agents", "credits", "free-tier", "no-card", "freemium", "no-status-page", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-20", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.4, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 456, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1268, "categoryRank": 13, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 40, "reliability": 45, "schema": 71, "security": 66, "transparency": 56 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-02" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "One credit balance over scrape, crawl, search, cloud browsers and agent runs, with published per-unit rates, a 1,000-credit free month, OAuth 2.1 for MCP and the CLI, and a closed error union with retry guidance. No status page, changelog or security.txt, an OpenAPI file without typed bodies, no idempotency keys on job submits, and a domain registered nine weeks ago.", "bestFor": "Agents that want one key and one balance for reading pages, walking a site, searching with rendered results and handing a signed-in or multi-step task to a hosted browser agent with a hard budget, and teams on TypeScript that want a residential-exit browser over CDP with a replay of every session.", "strengths": [ "Per-unit rates published without a login, 1 credit a page or browser minute and 5 credits per 10 search results, with the dollar cost per plan and every response carrying its own `usage`", "Free plan of 1,000 credits a month with no card, 2 concurrent browsers and 120 requests a minute, usable over the API, the SDKs, the CLI and MCP", "OAuth 2.1 with PKCE S256, dynamic client registration, device code for the CLI, a revocation endpoint and one-hour access tokens, beside workspace-scoped keys shown once and stored as a digest", "A closed error union in one envelope with a documented list of codes safe to retry, `retryAfterSeconds` on the per-minute quota error, and MCP errors that carry a `recovery` string and a `retryable` flag", "MCP tool descriptions that each name what the tool is not for and which tool is, with secrets and integrations kept off the MCP surface and agent runs capped by a required or defaulted budget", "Scout, the agent behind the hosted agent, is published under Apache-2.0 with its tests, and the SDKs and MCP package are MIT" ], "weaknesses": [ "No status page, incident history, SLA below Enterprise or security.txt; /status and status.outcrawl.ai do not answer", "The OpenAPI file types no request or response body; its error enum has 45 codes while the errors page lists 31 and llms.txt says 24, and the registry is called 62, 50 and 46 rows on different pages", "No idempotency key or safe-retry rule for the POST routes that start crawls, agent runs and monitors, and no Retry-After header; `concurrency_limit` tells the caller only to wait", "No changelog or release notes; the only dated record is version numbers on npm, PyPI and the release repository, and the @outcrawl/mcp package has sat at 0.4.3 since 29 September while the SDKs reached 0.4.15", "Session recordings are on by default and keep request bodies, cookies and form data, with the retention period shown only in the console and not published", "A cached scrape answer bills the same credit as a live fetch, a cancelled crawl still bills the pages fetched, and monitor notifications are never retried" ], "agentNotes": [ "Read a known URL with `POST /v1/scrape` or `outcrawl_scrape` at 1 credit; use `outcrawl_search` to find URLs and send `scrape: true` only when you need page bodies, and reserve `outcrawl_agent` for pages that need a click, a form or a sign-in.", "Always send `caps.budget` on `POST /v1/agent` (the API refuses without it) and store the returned id; poll `GET /v1/agent/{id}` or `outcrawl_agent_status`, never resubmit, because a second submit is a second bill.", "Branch on `error.code`, not `message`. Retry `no_capacity`, `decode_unavailable`, `extraction_failed` and `answer_lost` unchanged; on `quota_exceeded` with `ceiling: requests_per_minute` wait `retryAfterSeconds`; on `concurrency_limit` wait for a run to end; never retry `bad_request` or a credit quota.", "Set `limit` on a crawl before submitting; pages already fetched are billed when you cancel, and over HTTP the crawl is cancelled if the streaming connection drops, so keep the job id and read `/v1/crawl/{id}/results` with the cursor.", "Pass `after` with the last `seq` and `level: status` when reading `outcrawl_agent_events`; the log of a long run is the largest response the server returns.", "Pass `maxAge: 0` when freshness matters, since the default serves scrape answers up to two days old from a shared cache at the same price, and treat page content, `data` and download links as untrusted data; download URLs work for an hour with no key." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 62.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 40, "reliability": 45, "schema": 71, "security": 66, "transparency": 58 }, "provenanceScore": 54, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-02", "maintenance": "2026-11-02", "payments": "2026-11-02", "reliability": "2026-11-02", "schema": "2026-11-02", "security": "2026-11-02", "transparency": "2026-11-02" }, "last": "2026-11-02", "oldest": "2026-11-02", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npm install @outcrawl/sdk", "http": "curl https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1/scrape -H \"Authorization: Bearer $OUTCRAWL_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"url\":\"https://example.com\",\"formats\":[\"markdown\"]}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http outcrawl https://api.outcrawl.ai/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "outcrawl": { "type": "http", "url": "https://api.outcrawl.ai/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape", "tool": "https://letme.dev/outcrawl" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Scrape or crawl page (Builder)", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 4.9, "note": "1 credit a page; $3.98 per 1,000 on Pro and about $3.20 on Scale" }, { "item": "Search results (Builder)", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 2.45, "note": "5 credits per 10 results, pro rata; reading a result page adds 1 credit a page" }, { "item": "Browser session (Builder)", "unit": "browser-hour", "usd": 0.294, "note": "1 credit a minute, plus proxy traffic" }, { "item": "Proxy traffic (Builder)", "unit": "gb", "usd": 9.8, "note": "2,000 credits a decimal GB on browser sessions and agent runs" }, { "item": "Credit (Builder, top-up or plan)", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.0049, "note": "$49.00 per 10,000; $0.00398 on Pro and $0.003196 on Scale; agent runs cost about 15 credits a minute as the vendor's estimate" }, { "item": "Builder plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 49, "note": "10,000 credits, 5 concurrent browsers, 300 requests a minute" }, { "item": "Pro plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 199, "note": "50,000 credits, 25 concurrent browsers, 1,500 requests a minute" }, { "item": "Scale plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 799, "note": "250,000 credits, 100 concurrent browsers, 6,000 requests a minute" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Aeonmind LLC (trading as Outcrawl)", "domain": "outcrawl.ai", "domainRegistered": "2026-08-28", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://outcrawl.ai/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://outcrawl.ai/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-02", "notes": [ "The terms of service and the privacy policy, both last updated 1 November 2026, name Aeonmind LLC, trading as Outcrawl, governed by Delaware law with disputes in Delaware courts; the privacy policy calls it a United States company. No postal address is given. The footer reads © 2026 Aeonmind LLC and Scout's licence notice names the same company.", "RDAP at rdap.identitydigital.services gives a registration date of 2026-08-28 for outcrawl.ai, last changed 2026-09-02, with Cloudflare nameservers. The REST API and the MCP server are on api.outcrawl.ai and the OAuth authorization server on outcrawl.ai.", "firstReleased is 2026-09-08, the first npm publish of @outcrawl/sdk 0.1.0, which is also the day the outcrawlai GitHub organisation was created; PyPI's first release followed on 22 September 2026 and the Wayback Machine's first copy of the home page is 15 October 2026. lastRelease is 2026-10-20, version 0.4.15 on npm and PyPI.", "https://outcrawl.ai/.well-known/security.txt and https://api.outcrawl.ai/.well-known/security.txt answer 404. The security page has a responsible disclosure section with security@outcrawl.ai, a 90-day window and a no-legal-action statement for good-faith reports. /status, /changelog, /blog and /about on outcrawl.ai answer 404 and status.outcrawl.ai does not answer; no changelog or release notes exist on either host.", "robots.txt on outcrawl.ai allows every named crawler and `*`, disallows /console, /admin, /api/ and /og/ (except PNG and JPG files), and carries `Content-Signal: ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes`. api.outcrawl.ai disallows /play/, /replay/, /v1/, /mcp, /connect, /agent, /internal/ and /operator/; none of those paths was fetched, and the OAuth metadata documents were read as the listing check allowed.", "The vendor's own benchmark claim of 92.5 per cent pages reached, the 'orders of magnitude' cost language in tool descriptions and the human input model measurements are the vendor's claims. No MCP registry entry exists for outcrawl (search answers an empty list)." ], "score": 54 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outcrawl.json", "live": { "slug": "outcrawl", "probe": { "target": "https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-02T21:16:12.60527246Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 326, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 415, "p95ms24h": 695, "samples24h": 33, "samples30d": 33, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-02", "probes": 33, "ok": 33 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@outcrawl/sdk", "version": "0.4.15", "seenAt": "2026-11-02T19:40:27.502289569Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "outcrawl", "version": "0.4.15", "released": "2026-10-20", "seenAt": "2026-11-02T19:40:28.458855358Z" } ], "githubStars": 948, "npmWeekly": 54, "pypiWeekly": 36, "updatedAt": "2026-11-02T21:16:12.60527246Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 45, "category": "security", "leads": "outcrawl", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "One token per account, sent in the URL query string as the documented and only scheme in the OpenAPI file. Tokens are revocable in the dashboard per a June 2025 changelog title, and child tokens exist on Plus and above (20 of 30, less 10 for the secret in the URL, so 10). Child tokens have the same rights as the primary one and there is no read-only mode. The skills limit the agent to the `db` binary through `allowed-tools` (5 of 20). The API returns untrusted web content and no guidance on prompt injection was found (0 of 15). The token details page shows usage activity and an Account API reports usage. No per-call log was found (6 of 15). No security.txt, security page, certification or bug bounty was found on the pages read, and the privacy policy says some API calls rely on HTTP without encryption (0 of 20).", "b": "OAuth 2.1 for MCP clients and the CLI with authorization code, PKCE S256, dynamic public-client registration, device code, one-hour access tokens, 30-day refresh, introspection and revocation endpoints and private_key_jwt, but one functional scope, `api`; API keys shaped `ock_\u003ckeyId\u003e.\u003csecret\u003e` are shown once, stored as a digest, scoped to a workspace and revoked within a minute, with no per-key scopes, expiry or read-only keys; nothing documents a secret in a query string (25 of 30). No read-only key or scope. The MCP surface omits secrets, integrations, replay export and sharing and the wallet on purpose, rules are classified enforced or guidance on the call that sets them, agent runs need or default a budget, purchases above `approvalAbove` pause for a person's yes, and `control` hands a person the browser; monitor and profile deletes rely on destructiveHint alone (15 of 20). Every tool returns untrusted page content. The platform page says a page could ask the agent to act and that is why credentials never reach the model, secrets are substituted below the model, integrations are human-only and a run cannot be redirected mid-task, but there is no guidance to treat scraped text as data and no classifier (8 of 15). Every response carries `usage`, `/v1/usage` groups spend by hour, day or capability, agent events log every step, sessions keep the request list, console, HAR and a digest of failures, secrets record which runs used them and purchases are listed per run; there is no per-call log for scrape, search or crawl beyond the aggregate (12 of 15). No security.txt on either host (404), no SOC 2 or ISO 27001, no bug bounty; the security page has a responsible disclosure route at security@outcrawl.ai with a 90-day window and a no-legal-action statement (6 of 20). 25+15+8+12+6 = 66." }, "scores": { "a": 21, "b": 66 } }, { "by": 22, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "outcrawl", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "The official Python client was tagged v3.0.0 on 28 September 2026, eleven days before the check. The API changelog's newest entry is 15 June 2026, 116 days before the check, and recency is scored on that entry (10). Tagged releases in the last 90 days are skills v1.1.0 and v1.1.1 on 12 and 13 August and Python v3.0.0 on 28 September. The API changelog has none in that window (20). A public changelog with RSS and a support address exist. GitHub issues were not read (8 of 15 for a closed service). Python and TypeScript clients are current, but the docs name the packages `diffbot-python` and `diffbot-typescript` while the repositories publish `diffbot` and `@diffbot/typescript` (12 of 15). The Python repository tests on Python 3.9 to 3.13 and raised two dependencies for security fixes on 28 September. We did not see CI results (7 of 10).", "b": "@outcrawl/sdk and the PyPI package outcrawl both reached 0.4.15 on 20 October 2026, 13 days before the check, and the Scout mirror was synced on 1 November (30). 21 npm versions since 8 September and 17 PyPI releases since 22 September 2026, with 14 dated tags in outcrawlai/release (20). Scout's pull request #1 of 13 October was answered the same day with an import note and closed, while three pull requests and one issue opened on 18 October had no reply after 15 days; the service has no changelog, support is one email address, and no community channel exists (8 of 25). Not in the official MCP registry; official SDKs in TypeScript and Python current at 0.4.15, with a CLI (15). The three npm packages are published from GitHub Actions with trusted publishing, the TypeScript SDK has zero runtime dependencies and the Python SDK one, and Scout has tests per package, but the mirror has no CI workflows and @outcrawl/mcp has sat at 0.4.3 since 29 September with a tool list that differs from the hosted docs (6 of 10). 30+20+8+15+6 = 79." }, "scores": { "a": 57, "b": 79 } }, { "by": 20, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "outcrawl", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "Graded on the REST API, with the skills noted. `mode` limits extraction to one page type, `fields` adds optional fields and `discussion=false` drops comments, but an article response carries both `html` and `text` with no way found to drop either. The skills return Markdown by default (14 of 25). A single-URL call has no pagination. Web Search takes `size` and `maxTokens` and DQL takes `size` per the client. Crawl result paging was not read (10 of 20). Errors are JSON with `errorCode` and `error` and six docs pages. A failed extraction can arrive in a 200, and the 429 text says the site received too many requests when the cause is the caller's plan limit (12 of 20). Extract calls are GET reads and safe to retry. Whether a failed call uses a credit was not found, and there is no idempotency key for creating crawl jobs or custom APIs (12 of 20). Only `url` and `token` are required, with official Python and TypeScript clients and a CLI (15).", "b": "API reading. Scrape returns main content only by default with `formats` picking markdown, html, rawHtml, links, screenshots or schema JSON, search renders page bodies only on request, agent events take a `level` and an `after` cursor, the MCP server shows request bodies up to a character limit and says when it truncated, and the MCP surface is 29 tools with no toolsets (20 of 25). Cursor pagination on crawl results, agent results and downloads, `limit`, depth and path filters on crawl, status, outcome, task and age filters on sessions, and usage grouped by hour, day, month or capability (20). One error envelope with a closed `code`, `details` such as the cap that stopped a run, `retryAfterSeconds` on the per-minute quota error, a documented list of codes safe to retry, and on MCP a `recovery` string and a `retryable` flag per error (18 of 20). No idempotency key on any route, a repeated agent, crawl or monitor submit runs twice, and `concurrency_limit` carries no retry hint; cancel is idempotent, `integration_changed` (409) guards updates, and the npm MCP package sets readOnlyHint on GET tools, destructiveHint on DELETE tools and idempotentHint on either, which the hosted server was not read to confirm (10 of 20). Scrape needs a URL alone, agent runs need `caps.budget` on the API and SDKs with the MCP server defaulting it, and official SDKs exist in TypeScript and Python beside a CLI (15). 20+20+18+10+15 = 83." }, "scores": { "a": 63, "b": 83 } }, { "by": 12, "category": "schema", "leads": "diffbot", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "The Extract APIs have a public OpenAPI 3.1.0 file, version 1.1.0, with 13 operations, and the reference pages are generated from it. We read that file and one rendered page. The descriptions for Crawl, Knowledge Graph and Web Search were not read (25). llms.txt exists but is a short index with no Markdown twins of the docs pages found (5 of 10). The Analyze API page has sections on when to use it and when not to (17 of 20). Parameters are typed, `url` is the one required field and the file has 15 enums, but `fields` is a comma-separated string and the file defines no shared response schemas (10 of 15). The file carries 24 examples. It documents only 200 and 500, with separate docs pages for 401, 404, 429 and 457 (11 of 15). The path is versioned `/v3` and a dated changelog with RSS runs from 2015 to 15 June 2026 (15).", "b": "API reading, with the MCP server described. An OpenAPI 3.1 document at https://outcrawl.ai/docs/api-reference/openapi.json lists 62 operations over 51 paths with a summary each and the same 11 status codes, generated from the vendor's capability registry, but every request body is an untyped object marked `additionalProperties: true` with a pointer to the docs, every 200 response is an untyped object, and `Error` is the only schema; the typed shapes live in the SDK declarations and in the MCP server's zod schemas, which were read in the 0.4.3 npm package rather than from the hosted server (15 of 25). llms.txt and a 525 KB llms-full.txt on the docs, a Markdown twin of every page and an llms.txt on the site (10). The MCP descriptions each end with a `Not for:` clause naming the better tool and most with a `Cost:` clause, the OpenAPI summaries say when not to use a route, and the capability pages say which neighbour to use instead (18 of 20). Scrape formats are an enum of eight, event levels and record kinds are enums, `caps.budget` is required, and the SDK types bound every option, while the OpenAPI bodies carry none of it (10 of 15). curl, TypeScript and Python examples on every page, 20 worked programs, a 31-row error table with meanings and a retryable list, and MCP errors with a `recovery` string, though the closed union is sized 24, 31, 45 and 22 on different pages (13 of 15). `/v1` in the path and 1.0.0 in the OpenAPI file, but no changelog or release notes anywhere; the record is version numbers on npm, PyPI and 14 dated tags in the outcrawlai/release repository (5 of 15). 15+10+18+10+13+5 = 71." }, "scores": { "a": 83, "b": 71 } }, { "by": 12, "category": "transparency", "leads": "diffbot", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "A closed service under undated Terms of Use that cover the Site and the Service, cap liability at $10 and grant Diffbot a perpetual licence to process submitted queries. The clients and skills are MIT (13 of 30). The privacy policy of 29 August 2025 says query history and API calls are stored against the API key and kept no longer than necessary, with no retention period given. The GDPR and data rights page was not read (14 of 30). There is no deprecation policy. The changelog carries dated notices, such as a May 2024 entry announcing a field removal for 30 August 2024, and the terms give 14 days' notice of fee changes (8 of 20). The privacy policy names its service providers one by one, among them AWS, Stripe, Intercom, Salesforce, Slack and Amplitude, and says all are in the United States (14 of 20).", "b": "Closed hosted service under terms last updated 1 November 2026 that name Aeonmind LLC, trading as Outcrawl, Delaware law and a liability cap; the SDKs and the MCP package are MIT and Scout, the agent behind the hosted agent, is Apache-2.0 in a read-only mirror of a private repository (20 of 30). The privacy policy (1 November 2026) and the security page (8 October 2026) agree with each other and the docs on recordings, secrets, downloads and subprocessors. Recordings are on by default and hold request bodies, cookies and form data, deleted after a plan period shown only in the console, downloads are kept 7 days, run files are destroyed at run end, PostHog site recordings go after 30 days, and account data is kept for a limited unspecified period after closure; no DPA was found and no recording retention figure is published (20 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices; the terms say prices may change for future usage and material changes are emailed, and no changelog exists (3 of 20). Twelve subprocessors named with their purposes, infrastructure mainly in the United States with Cloudflare edge locations, analytics only after consent, but the AI model providers and captcha-solving services that see page content are unnamed (15 of 20). 20+20+3+15 = 58." }, "scores": { "a": 68, "b": 56 } }, { "by": 10, "category": "reliability", "leads": "diffbot", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Graded as a hosted API. status.diffbot.com is a Pingdom public report with 13 checks, among them Analyze API, Article API, Crawlbot and Websearch, with daily uptime for seven days and no incident notes (15 of 20). No 90-day record can be read. In the week to 9 October 2026 Analyze API shows 99.69 per cent, with 2, 11 and 17 minutes down on 4, 5 and 6 October, and Article API 5, 9 and 2 minutes on 5 to 7 October (5 of 30, the line for no readable history). Rate limits are published per plan, 5 calls a minute on Free, 5 a second on Startup and 25 a second on Plus (15). The 429 page says to pause one second and back off. No `Retry-After` header is documented, though the official client reads one (10 of 15). No SLA was found (0). The Extract APIs are at `/v3` with no beta label (10).", "b": "Hosted reading, for the REST API with the MCP server that shares its limits. No public status page was found. None is linked from the site or the docs, https://outcrawl.ai/status answers 404 and status.outcrawl.ai does not answer (0). No readable incident history, so the floor (5). Rate limits are published with numbers on the pricing page and in the docs, 120, 300, 1,500 and 6,000 requests a minute by plan and 2, 5, 25 and 100 concurrent browsers, shared between the API and the MCP server (15). Over the per-minute ceiling the API answers `quota_exceeded` with `ceiling: requests_per_minute` and `retryAfterSeconds`, read from the SDK error class and the worked examples, the errors page lists four codes as safe to retry unchanged, and `concurrency_limit` tells the caller only to wait for a run to end; no Retry-After header is documented and no idempotency key or safe-retry rule exists for the POST routes that start crawls, agent runs and monitors, which the agent tool's own description says bill twice on a repeat (10 of 15). An SLA exists only on Enterprise, a 99.9 per cent monthly uptime figure with service credits and terms priced per contract, so half credit for a published figure without published terms (5 of 10). No beta or preview label on the API, the MCP server or the CLI, and the OpenAPI file says version 1.0.0, though both SDKs are at 0.4.15 and the domain is nine weeks old (10). 0+5+15+10+5+10 = 45." }, "scores": { "a": 55, "b": 45 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Diffbot Technologies Corp.", "b": "Aeonmind LLC (Outcrawl)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.diffbot.com/v3", "b": "https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "$0.90 per 1,000 pages", "b": "not published", "name": "Price for extraction" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under Diffbot's Terms of Use. The Python client, the TypeScript client and the agent skills are MIT", "b": "Proprietary hosted service under Aeonmind LLC's terms of service (last updated 1 November 2026). The TypeScript and Python SDKs and the @outcrawl/mcp package are MIT, and Scout, the browser agent behind the hosted agent, is Apache-2.0 in a read-only GitHub mirror", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "29", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-06-15", "b": "2026-10-20", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2026-11-01", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2025-08-29", "b": "2026-11-01", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "9 npm/wk, 45 PyPI/wk", "b": "948 stars, 53 npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Outcrawl scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against Diffbot's 54.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Diffbot leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Diffbot or Outcrawl?" }, { "answer": "Diffbot needs an API key. Outcrawl takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Diffbot and Outcrawl need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Diffbot has a hosted endpoint at https://api.diffbot.com/v3 and Outcrawl at https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call Diffbot and Outcrawl without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 55 against 45", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 71", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 68 against 56" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Agents that want typed article, product or discussion data from arbitrary pages without writing selectors, and teams that also want the Knowledge Graph.", "slug": "diffbot", "watchFor": "The token is sent as the `token` query parameter on Extract and Knowledge Graph calls. It is the only scheme in the OpenAPI file" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 83 against 63", "Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 21", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 57" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Agents that want one key and one balance for reading pages, walking a site, searching with rendered results and handing a signed-in or multi-step task to a hosted browser agent with a hard budget, and teams on TypeScript that want a residential-exit browser over CDP with a replay of every session.", "slug": "outcrawl", "watchFor": "No status page, incident history, SLA below Enterprise or security.txt; /status and status.outcrawl.ai do not answer" } ], "history": null, "job": { "capability": "web.extract", "name": "Extraction" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-diffbot.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Diffbot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-diffbot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-diffbot.json", "title": "Context.dev vs Diffbot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-diffbot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Context.dev vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/context-dev-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-jina-reader.json", "title": "Diffbot vs Jina Reader", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-jina-reader" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrape-do.json", "title": "Diffbot vs Scrape.do", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrape-do" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapeless.json", "title": "Diffbot vs Scrapeless", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapeless" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Jina Reader vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Olostep vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Oxylabs Web Scraper API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrape-do.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Scrape.do", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrape-do" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapegraphai.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs ScrapeGraphAI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapegraphai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapeless.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Scrapeless", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapeless" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scraperapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapewise.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Scrapewise", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapewise" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs ScrapingAnt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingant" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingbee.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs ScrapingBee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingbee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingdog.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Scrapingdog", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapingdog" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-spider-cloud.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Spider", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-spider-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zyte.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Firecrawl MCP vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-firecrawl-mcp.json", "title": "Diffbot vs Firecrawl MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-firecrawl-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-jevcrawl.json", "title": "Diffbot vs jevcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-jevcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-olostep.json", "title": "Diffbot vs Olostep", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-olostep" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper.json", "title": "Diffbot vs Oxylabs Web Scraper API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-qovia.json", "title": "Diffbot vs Qovia", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-qovia" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapeatlas.json", "title": "Diffbot vs ScrapeAtlas", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapeatlas" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapegraphai.json", "title": "Diffbot vs ScrapeGraphAI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapegraphai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scraperapi.json", "title": "Diffbot vs ScraperAPI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scraperapi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapewise.json", "title": "Diffbot vs Scrapewise", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapewise" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "Diffbot vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "Diffbot vs ScrapingAnt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapingant" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapingbee.json", "title": "Diffbot vs ScrapingBee", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapingbee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapingdog.json", "title": "Diffbot vs Scrapingdog", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapingdog" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-spider-cloud.json", "title": "Diffbot vs Spider", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-spider-cloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-zenrows.json", "title": "Diffbot vs ZenRows", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-zenrows" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-zyte.json", "title": "Diffbot vs Zyte API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-zyte" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-qovia.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs Qovia", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-qovia" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapeatlas.json", "title": "Outcrawl vs ScrapeAtlas", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outcrawl-vs-scrapeatlas" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-diffbot.json", "title": "Apify MCP Server vs Diffbot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-diffbot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "Apify MCP Server vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-outcrawl" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-outcrawl.json", "title": "jevcrawl vs Outcrawl", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jevcrawl-vs-outcrawl" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 10, "diffbot": 55, "edge": "diffbot", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "outcrawl": 45, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 12, "diffbot": 83, "edge": "diffbot", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "outcrawl": 71, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 20, "diffbot": 63, "edge": "outcrawl", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "outcrawl": 83, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 45, "diffbot": 21, "edge": "outcrawl", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "outcrawl": 66, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 0, "diffbot": 40, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "outcrawl": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 22, "diffbot": 57, "edge": "outcrawl", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "outcrawl": 79, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 12, "diffbot": 68, "edge": "diffbot", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "outcrawl": 56, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Outcrawl scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against Diffbot's 54.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Diffbot leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do extraction.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "diffbot": "Extract returns typed JSON for articles, products, discussions and other page types with no selectors to write, under a public OpenAPI 3.1 contract and a free plan that needs no card. The API token travels in the URL query string, tokens carry no scopes, and no security page, certification or security.txt was found.", "outcrawl": "One credit balance over scrape, crawl, search, cloud browsers and agent runs, with published per-unit rates, a 1,000-credit free month, OAuth 2.1 for MCP and the CLI, and a closed error union with retry guidance. No status page, changelog or security.txt, an OpenAPI file without typed bodies, no idempotency keys on job submits, and a domain registered nine weeks ago." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-outcrawl", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-outcrawl.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-outcrawl.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-outcrawl.min.md" }, "markdown": "Outcrawl scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against Diffbot's 54.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Diffbot leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do extraction.\n\n- Diffbot: grade C, 54.3/100, rank #830 of 1268. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/diffbot.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/diffbot.json\n- Outcrawl: grade B, 62.4/100, rank #456 of 1268. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outcrawl.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/outcrawl.json\n- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md\n- All 284 scrapers comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/web-scrapers/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Diffbot (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that want typed article, product or discussion data from arbitrary pages without writing selectors, and teams that also want the Knowledge Graph.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 55 against 45\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 71\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 68 against 56\n\nWatch for: The token is sent as the `token` query parameter on Extract and Knowledge Graph calls. It is the only scheme in the OpenAPI file\n\n### Outcrawl (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that want one key and one balance for reading pages, walking a site, searching with rendered results and handing a signed-in or multi-step task to a hosted browser agent with a hard budget, and teams on TypeScript that want a residential-exit browser over CDP with a replay of every session.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 83 against 63\n- Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 21\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 57\n\nWatch for: No status page, incident history, SLA below Enterprise or security.txt; /status and status.outcrawl.ai do not answer\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Outcrawl +45\n\n- Diffbot (21): One token per account, sent in the URL query string as the documented and only scheme in the OpenAPI file. Tokens are revocable in the dashboard per a June 2025 changelog title, and child tokens exist on Plus and above (20 of 30, less 10 for the secret in the URL, so 10). Child tokens have the same rights as the primary one and there is no read-only mode. The skills limit the agent to the `db` binary through `allowed-tools` (5 of 20). The API returns untrusted web content and no guidance on prompt injection was found (0 of 15). The token details page shows usage activity and an Account API reports usage. No per-call log was found (6 of 15). No security.txt, security page, certification or bug bounty was found on the pages read, and the privacy policy says some API calls rely on HTTP without encryption (0 of 20).\n- Outcrawl (66): OAuth 2.1 for MCP clients and the CLI with authorization code, PKCE S256, dynamic public-client registration, device code, one-hour access tokens, 30-day refresh, introspection and revocation endpoints and private_key_jwt, but one functional scope, `api`; API keys shaped `ock_\u003ckeyId\u003e.\u003csecret\u003e` are shown once, stored as a digest, scoped to a workspace and revoked within a minute, with no per-key scopes, expiry or read-only keys; nothing documents a secret in a query string (25 of 30). No read-only key or scope. The MCP surface omits secrets, integrations, replay export and sharing and the wallet on purpose, rules are classified enforced or guidance on the call that sets them, agent runs need or default a budget, purchases above `approvalAbove` pause for a person's yes, and `control` hands a person the browser; monitor and profile deletes rely on destructiveHint alone (15 of 20). Every tool returns untrusted page content. The platform page says a page could ask the agent to act and that is why credentials never reach the model, secrets are substituted below the model, integrations are human-only and a run cannot be redirected mid-task, but there is no guidance to treat scraped text as data and no classifier (8 of 15). Every response carries `usage`, `/v1/usage` groups spend by hour, day or capability, agent events log every step, sessions keep the request list, console, HAR and a digest of failures, secrets record which runs used them and purchases are listed per run; there is no per-call log for scrape, search or crawl beyond the aggregate (12 of 15). No security.txt on either host (404), no SOC 2 or ISO 27001, no bug bounty; the security page has a responsible disclosure route at security@outcrawl.ai with a 90-day window and a no-legal-action statement (6 of 20). 25+15+8+12+6 = 66.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Outcrawl +22\n\n- Diffbot (57): The official Python client was tagged v3.0.0 on 28 September 2026, eleven days before the check. The API changelog's newest entry is 15 June 2026, 116 days before the check, and recency is scored on that entry (10). Tagged releases in the last 90 days are skills v1.1.0 and v1.1.1 on 12 and 13 August and Python v3.0.0 on 28 September. The API changelog has none in that window (20). A public changelog with RSS and a support address exist. GitHub issues were not read (8 of 15 for a closed service). Python and TypeScript clients are current, but the docs name the packages `diffbot-python` and `diffbot-typescript` while the repositories publish `diffbot` and `@diffbot/typescript` (12 of 15). The Python repository tests on Python 3.9 to 3.13 and raised two dependencies for security fixes on 28 September. We did not see CI results (7 of 10).\n- Outcrawl (79): @outcrawl/sdk and the PyPI package outcrawl both reached 0.4.15 on 20 October 2026, 13 days before the check, and the Scout mirror was synced on 1 November (30). 21 npm versions since 8 September and 17 PyPI releases since 22 September 2026, with 14 dated tags in outcrawlai/release (20). Scout's pull request #1 of 13 October was answered the same day with an import note and closed, while three pull requests and one issue opened on 18 October had no reply after 15 days; the service has no changelog, support is one email address, and no community channel exists (8 of 25). Not in the official MCP registry; official SDKs in TypeScript and Python current at 0.4.15, with a CLI (15). The three npm packages are published from GitHub Actions with trusted publishing, the TypeScript SDK has zero runtime dependencies and the Python SDK one, and Scout has tests per package, but the mirror has no CI workflows and @outcrawl/mcp has sat at 0.4.3 since 29 September with a tool list that differs from the hosted docs (6 of 10). 30+20+8+15+6 = 79.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Outcrawl +20\n\n- Diffbot (63): Graded on the REST API, with the skills noted. `mode` limits extraction to one page type, `fields` adds optional fields and `discussion=false` drops comments, but an article response carries both `html` and `text` with no way found to drop either. The skills return Markdown by default (14 of 25). A single-URL call has no pagination. Web Search takes `size` and `maxTokens` and DQL takes `size` per the client. Crawl result paging was not read (10 of 20). Errors are JSON with `errorCode` and `error` and six docs pages. A failed extraction can arrive in a 200, and the 429 text says the site received too many requests when the cause is the caller's plan limit (12 of 20). Extract calls are GET reads and safe to retry. Whether a failed call uses a credit was not found, and there is no idempotency key for creating crawl jobs or custom APIs (12 of 20). Only `url` and `token` are required, with official Python and TypeScript clients and a CLI (15).\n- Outcrawl (83): API reading. Scrape returns main content only by default with `formats` picking markdown, html, rawHtml, links, screenshots or schema JSON, search renders page bodies only on request, agent events take a `level` and an `after` cursor, the MCP server shows request bodies up to a character limit and says when it truncated, and the MCP surface is 29 tools with no toolsets (20 of 25). Cursor pagination on crawl results, agent results and downloads, `limit`, depth and path filters on crawl, status, outcome, task and age filters on sessions, and usage grouped by hour, day, month or capability (20). One error envelope with a closed `code`, `details` such as the cap that stopped a run, `retryAfterSeconds` on the per-minute quota error, a documented list of codes safe to retry, and on MCP a `recovery` string and a `retryable` flag per error (18 of 20). No idempotency key on any route, a repeated agent, crawl or monitor submit runs twice, and `concurrency_limit` carries no retry hint; cancel is idempotent, `integration_changed` (409) guards updates, and the npm MCP package sets readOnlyHint on GET tools, destructiveHint on DELETE tools and idempotentHint on either, which the hosted server was not read to confirm (10 of 20). Scrape needs a URL alone, agent runs need `caps.budget` on the API and SDKs with the MCP server defaulting it, and official SDKs exist in TypeScript and Python beside a CLI (15). 20+20+18+10+15 = 83.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Diffbot +12\n\n- Diffbot (83): The Extract APIs have a public OpenAPI 3.1.0 file, version 1.1.0, with 13 operations, and the reference pages are generated from it. We read that file and one rendered page. The descriptions for Crawl, Knowledge Graph and Web Search were not read (25). llms.txt exists but is a short index with no Markdown twins of the docs pages found (5 of 10). The Analyze API page has sections on when to use it and when not to (17 of 20). Parameters are typed, `url` is the one required field and the file has 15 enums, but `fields` is a comma-separated string and the file defines no shared response schemas (10 of 15). The file carries 24 examples. It documents only 200 and 500, with separate docs pages for 401, 404, 429 and 457 (11 of 15). The path is versioned `/v3` and a dated changelog with RSS runs from 2015 to 15 June 2026 (15).\n- Outcrawl (71): API reading, with the MCP server described. An OpenAPI 3.1 document at https://outcrawl.ai/docs/api-reference/openapi.json lists 62 operations over 51 paths with a summary each and the same 11 status codes, generated from the vendor's capability registry, but every request body is an untyped object marked `additionalProperties: true` with a pointer to the docs, every 200 response is an untyped object, and `Error` is the only schema; the typed shapes live in the SDK declarations and in the MCP server's zod schemas, which were read in the 0.4.3 npm package rather than from the hosted server (15 of 25). llms.txt and a 525 KB llms-full.txt on the docs, a Markdown twin of every page and an llms.txt on the site (10). The MCP descriptions each end with a `Not for:` clause naming the better tool and most with a `Cost:` clause, the OpenAPI summaries say when not to use a route, and the capability pages say which neighbour to use instead (18 of 20). Scrape formats are an enum of eight, event levels and record kinds are enums, `caps.budget` is required, and the SDK types bound every option, while the OpenAPI bodies carry none of it (10 of 15). curl, TypeScript and Python examples on every page, 20 worked programs, a 31-row error table with meanings and a retryable list, and MCP errors with a `recovery` string, though the closed union is sized 24, 31, 45 and 22 on different pages (13 of 15). `/v1` in the path and 1.0.0 in the OpenAPI file, but no changelog or release notes anywhere; the record is version numbers on npm, PyPI and 14 dated tags in the outcrawlai/release repository (5 of 15). 15+10+18+10+13+5 = 71.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Diffbot +12\n\n- Diffbot (68): A closed service under undated Terms of Use that cover the Site and the Service, cap liability at $10 and grant Diffbot a perpetual licence to process submitted queries. The clients and skills are MIT (13 of 30). The privacy policy of 29 August 2025 says query history and API calls are stored against the API key and kept no longer than necessary, with no retention period given. The GDPR and data rights page was not read (14 of 30). There is no deprecation policy. The changelog carries dated notices, such as a May 2024 entry announcing a field removal for 30 August 2024, and the terms give 14 days' notice of fee changes (8 of 20). The privacy policy names its service providers one by one, among them AWS, Stripe, Intercom, Salesforce, Slack and Amplitude, and says all are in the United States (14 of 20).\n- Outcrawl (56): Closed hosted service under terms last updated 1 November 2026 that name Aeonmind LLC, trading as Outcrawl, Delaware law and a liability cap; the SDKs and the MCP package are MIT and Scout, the agent behind the hosted agent, is Apache-2.0 in a read-only mirror of a private repository (20 of 30). The privacy policy (1 November 2026) and the security page (8 October 2026) agree with each other and the docs on recordings, secrets, downloads and subprocessors. Recordings are on by default and hold request bodies, cookies and form data, deleted after a plan period shown only in the console, downloads are kept 7 days, run files are destroyed at run end, PostHog site recordings go after 30 days, and account data is kept for a limited unspecified period after closure; no DPA was found and no recording retention figure is published (20 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices; the terms say prices may change for future usage and material changes are emailed, and no changelog exists (3 of 20). Twelve subprocessors named with their purposes, infrastructure mainly in the United States with Cloudflare edge locations, analytics only after consent, but the AI model providers and captcha-solving services that see page content are unnamed (15 of 20). 20+20+3+15 = 58.\n\n### Reliability: Diffbot +10\n\n- Diffbot (55): Graded as a hosted API. status.diffbot.com is a Pingdom public report with 13 checks, among them Analyze API, Article API, Crawlbot and Websearch, with daily uptime for seven days and no incident notes (15 of 20). No 90-day record can be read. In the week to 9 October 2026 Analyze API shows 99.69 per cent, with 2, 11 and 17 minutes down on 4, 5 and 6 October, and Article API 5, 9 and 2 minutes on 5 to 7 October (5 of 30, the line for no readable history). Rate limits are published per plan, 5 calls a minute on Free, 5 a second on Startup and 25 a second on Plus (15). The 429 page says to pause one second and back off. No `Retry-After` header is documented, though the official client reads one (10 of 15). No SLA was found (0). The Extract APIs are at `/v3` with no beta label (10).\n- Outcrawl (45): Hosted reading, for the REST API with the MCP server that shares its limits. No public status page was found. None is linked from the site or the docs, https://outcrawl.ai/status answers 404 and status.outcrawl.ai does not answer (0). No readable incident history, so the floor (5). Rate limits are published with numbers on the pricing page and in the docs, 120, 300, 1,500 and 6,000 requests a minute by plan and 2, 5, 25 and 100 concurrent browsers, shared between the API and the MCP server (15). Over the per-minute ceiling the API answers `quota_exceeded` with `ceiling: requests_per_minute` and `retryAfterSeconds`, read from the SDK error class and the worked examples, the errors page lists four codes as safe to retry unchanged, and `concurrency_limit` tells the caller only to wait for a run to end; no Retry-After header is documented and no idempotency key or safe-retry rule exists for the POST routes that start crawls, agent runs and monitors, which the agent tool's own description says bill twice on a repeat (10 of 15). An SLA exists only on Enterprise, a 99.9 per cent monthly uptime figure with service credits and terms priced per contract, so half credit for a published figure without published terms (5 of 10). No beta or preview label on the API, the MCP server or the CLI, and the OpenAPI file says version 1.0.0, though both SDKs are at 0.4.15 and the domain is nine weeks old (10). 0+5+15+10+5+10 = 45.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Diffbot | Outcrawl | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 45 | Diffbot +10 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 71 | Diffbot +12 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 63 | 83 | Outcrawl +20 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 21 | 66 | Outcrawl +45 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 40 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 57 | 79 | Outcrawl +22 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 56 | Diffbot +12 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **54.3 · C** | **62.4 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Diffbot | Outcrawl |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Diffbot Technologies Corp. | Aeonmind LLC (Outcrawl) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.diffbot.com/v3` | `https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| Price for extraction | $0.90 per 1,000 pages | not published |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Diffbot's Terms of Use. The Python client, the TypeScript client and the agent skills are MIT | Proprietary hosted service under Aeonmind LLC's terms of service (last updated 1 November 2026). The TypeScript and Python SDKs and the @outcrawl/mcp package are MIT, and Scout, the browser agent behind the hosted agent, is Apache-2.0 in a read-only GitHub mirror |\n| Tools exposed | none | 29 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-06-15 | 2026-10-20 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-11-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-29 | 2026-11-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 9 npm/wk, 45 PyPI/wk | 948 stars, 53 npm/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Diffbot.** Extract returns typed JSON for articles, products, discussions and other page types with no selectors to write, under a public OpenAPI 3.1 contract and a free plan that needs no card. The API token travels in the URL query string, tokens carry no scopes, and no security page, certification or security.txt was found.\n\n**Outcrawl.** One credit balance over scrape, crawl, search, cloud browsers and agent runs, with published per-unit rates, a 1,000-credit free month, OAuth 2.1 for MCP and the CLI, and a closed error union with retry guidance. No status page, changelog or security.txt, an OpenAPI file without typed bodies, no idempotency keys on job submits, and a domain registered nine weeks ago.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Diffbot\n\n1. Call `GET https://api.diffbot.com/v3/analyze?url=\u003cencoded URL\u003e\u0026token=\u003ctoken\u003e` when the page type is unknown. Use `/v3/article` or `/v3/product` to force one schema\n2. Keep the token out of logs and shared URLs. It sits in the query string, so any proxy or log that records the request URL records the token\n3. Stay under 5 calls a minute on Free, 5 a second on Startup and 25 a second on Plus. On 429 wait at least one second and back off\n4. Check a 200 response for `errorCode`. The official client raises `ExtractionError` when a 200 reports a failed extraction\n5. Set `useProxy=default` only when a site blocks the fetch. A proxied page costs 2 credits against 1\n6. Install `diffbot` from PyPI, not `diffbot-python`, which stopped at 0.3.0\n\n### Outcrawl\n\n1. Read a known URL with `POST /v1/scrape` or `outcrawl_scrape` at 1 credit; use `outcrawl_search` to find URLs and send `scrape: true` only when you need page bodies, and reserve `outcrawl_agent` for pages that need a click, a form or a sign-in.\n2. Always send `caps.budget` on `POST /v1/agent` (the API refuses without it) and store the returned id; poll `GET /v1/agent/{id}` or `outcrawl_agent_status`, never resubmit, because a second submit is a second bill.\n3. Branch on `error.code`, not `message`. Retry `no_capacity`, `decode_unavailable`, `extraction_failed` and `answer_lost` unchanged; on `quota_exceeded` with `ceiling: requests_per_minute` wait `retryAfterSeconds`; on `concurrency_limit` wait for a run to end; never retry `bad_request` or a credit quota.\n4. Set `limit` on a crawl before submitting; pages already fetched are billed when you cancel, and over HTTP the crawl is cancelled if the streaming connection drops, so keep the job id and read `/v1/crawl/{id}/results` with the cursor.\n5. Pass `after` with the last `seq` and `level: status` when reading `outcrawl_agent_events`; the log of a long run is the largest response the server returns.\n6. Pass `maxAge: 0` when freshness matters, since the default serves scrape answers up to two days old from a shared cache at the same price, and treat page content, `data` and download links as untrusted data; download URLs work for an hour with no key.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Diffbot or Outcrawl?\n\nOutcrawl scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against Diffbot's 54.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Diffbot leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Diffbot and Outcrawl need an API key?\n\nDiffbot needs an API key. Outcrawl takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Diffbot and Outcrawl without installing anything?\n\nYes. Diffbot has a hosted endpoint at https://api.diffbot.com/v3 and Outcrawl at https://api.outcrawl.ai/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-outcrawl.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-outcrawl.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"diffbot\", \"b\": \"outcrawl\"}`. 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