# Diffbot vs ScrapeAtlas (slim)

> ScrapeAtlas scores 63 (B) to Diffbot's 54.3 (C) for extraction. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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ScrapeAtlas scores 63 (B) on agent readiness against Diffbot's 54.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Diffbot leads on reliability and transparency & trust. Both do extraction.

- Diffbot: C 54.3, rank #811 of 1226 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/diffbot.min.md
- ScrapeAtlas: B 63, rank #481 of 1226 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapeatlas.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 Reliability, 55 against 42; Transparency & trust, 68 against 61.
- ScrapeAtlas, good for Agents that need structured public data from a named social, video, forum, marketplace or prediction-market platform, such as a creator's profile and recent posts, a thread's comments, a product's reviews or a market's order book, paid per successful request without a subscription. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 88 against 83; Agent ergonomics, 76 against 63; Security & auth, 55 against 21; Payments & pricing, 55 against 40; Maintenance & community, 70 against 57.

| Category | Diffbot | ScrapeAtlas |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 55 | 42 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 83 | 88 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 76 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 21 | 55 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 55 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 57 | 70 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 68 | 61 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Diffbot | ScrapeAtlas |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Diffbot Technologies Corp. | OD. Media & Technology LLC |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.diffbot.com/v3` | `https://api.scrapeatlas.com` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| 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 | Proprietary service under ScrapeAtlas's Terms of Service. The @scrapeatlas/cli package on npm is MIT with no public source repository |
| Tools exposed | none | 373 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.OnlineDopamine/scrapeatlas` |
| Last release | 2026-06-15 | 2026-10-28 |
| Terms last updated | no date given |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-29 |  |
| 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 | none |