# Diffbot vs Scrapeless (slim)

> Diffbot and Scrapeless score within a point of each other for scraping, 54.3 and 54.1 out of 100. 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 and Scrapeless score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 54.3 (C) and 54.1 (C). Scrapeless leads on reliability, security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do scraping.

- Diffbot: C 54.3, rank #687 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/diffbot.min.md
- Scrapeless: C 54.1, rank #693 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapeless.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 66; Agent ergonomics, 63 against 50; Payments & pricing, 40 against 35; Transparency & trust, 68 against 53.
- Scrapeless, good for An agent that needs one key for unlocking, a remote browser and AI answer-engine scraping, and is happy to read the pricing JSON rather than llms.txt. Ahead on Reliability, 75 against 55; Security & auth, 35 against 21; Maintenance & community, 81 against 57. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Diffbot | Scrapeless |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 55 | 75 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 83 | 66 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 50 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 21 | 35 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 57 | 81 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 68 | 53 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Diffbot | Scrapeless |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Diffbot Technologies Corp. | Scrapeless (NST Labs Tech) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.diffbot.com/v3` | `https://api.scrapeless.com` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| 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 | MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 25 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.scrapeless-ai/scrapeless-mcp-server` |
| Last release | 2026-06-15 | 2026-09-16 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-29 | no date given |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 9 npm/wk, 45 PyPI/wk | 169 stars, 423 npm/wk, 216 PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 2/5 (2) |