# Diffbot vs ScraperAPI (slim)

> Diffbot scores 54.3 (C) to ScraperAPI's 52.1 (D) for extraction. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Diffbot scores 54.3 (C) on agent readiness against ScraperAPI's 52.1 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. ScraperAPI leads on agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do extraction.

- Diffbot: C 54.3, rank #687 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/diffbot.min.md
- ScraperAPI: D 52.1, rank #739 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scraperapi.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 45; Schema & documentation, 83 against 67; Transparency & trust, 68 against 54.
- ScraperAPI, good for Agents that want a single GET to fetch pages through proxies, with parsed JSON for Amazon, Google, Walmart, eBay and Redfin and a batch API of up to 50,000 URLs. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 74 against 63; Security & auth, 29 against 21. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Diffbot | ScraperAPI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 55 | 45 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 83 | 67 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 21 | 29 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 57 | 61 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 68 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Diffbot | ScraperAPI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Diffbot Technologies Corp. | ScraperAPI (saas.group) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.diffbot.com/v3` | `https://api.scraperapi.com` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| 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 | none |
| Tools exposed | none | 28 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-06-15 | 2026-08-07 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-29 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 9 npm/wk, 45 PyPI/wk | 5 stars |