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Head to head · Extraction · October 2026 research run

Diffbot vs Scrapewise

Scrapewise scores 62.5 (B) on agent readiness against Diffbot's 54.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Diffbot leads on reliability and transparency & trust. Both do extraction.

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DiffbotDiffbot Technologies Corp. · HTTP API C54.3/100#738 of 1098 ScrapewiseBEBOTECH OÜ · HTTP API B62.5/100#462 of 1098

Which one, for what

Diffbot C

Best 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
  • Transparency & trust, 68 against 53

Watch 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

Scrapewise B

Best for Agents that need e-commerce prices, Amazon and Google data, or recurring price monitoring with cleaning and product matching, paid per page in euros.

Ahead on

  • Agent ergonomics, 86 against 63
  • Security & auth, 58 against 21
  • Maintenance & community, 79 against 57

Watch for

No status page, SLA, security.txt, disclosure policy or certification found

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runDiffbotScrapewiseEdge
Reliability16%205545Diffbot +10
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28379Diffbot +4
Agent ergonomics13%16.26386Scrapewise +23
Security & auth14%17.52158Scrapewise +37
Payments & pricing10%12.54040even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85779Scrapewise +22
Transparency & trust7%8.86853Diffbot +15
Negative events≤1500
TotalC 54.3/100B 62.5/100

Facts side by side

FactDiffbotScrapewise
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorDiffbot Technologies Corp.BEBOTECH OÜ
Hosted endpointhttps://api.diffbot.com/v3https://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp
TransportsHTTPStreamable HTTP
AuthAPI keyAPI key
PricingFreemiumPay per use
Price for extraction$0.90 per 1,000 pagesnot published
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Diffbot's Terms of Use. The Python client, the TypeScript client and the agent skills are MITnone
Tools exposednone14
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registrynot listedai.scrapewise/scrapewise
Last release2026-06-152026-10-15
Terms last updatedno date given2025-10-29
Privacy policy last updated2025-08-292025-10-29
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyesnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waiveryesnot found in the text
Popularity9 npm/wk, 45 PyPI/wk1 stars, 30 PyPI/wk

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.

Scrapewise

Agents get 14 priced MCP tools by default, each with a free quote_only price check and idempotency keys, read-only or full-access keys, and public euro prices from €0.15 per 1,000 plain pages. There is no status page, SLA or vulnerability disclosure policy, and the terms claim ownership of all scraped data under a perpetual licence.

Before you call either

Diffbot

  1. Call GET https://api.diffbot.com/v3/analyze?url=<encoded URL>&token=<token> when the page type is unknown. Use /v3/article or /v3/product to force one schema
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Check a 200 response for errorCode. The official client raises ExtractionError when a 200 reports a failed extraction
  5. Set useProxy=default only when a site blocks the fetch. A proxied page costs 2 credits against 1
  6. Install diffbot from PyPI, not diffbot-python, which stopped at 0.3.0

Scrapewise

  1. Call each paid tool with quote_only: true first, then repeat with the same idempotency_key so a retry is charged once
  2. Connect to https://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp?toolsets=outcome,admin to build scrapers; a misspelt toolsets is ignored silently and leaves the 14 data tools
  3. Use an LLM_READ key unless the task needs paid tools or writes, since LLM_FULL has no per-tool consent
  4. Treat 402 WALLET_INSUFFICIENT_BALANCE as final and ask the user to top up; on 429 wait for Retry-After, and on 429 cost_exceeded wait for the next hour
  5. Scrape many addresses with one scrapewise_run_scraper_url_list call (up to 5,000) and retry with the same name, never one scraper per address

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Diffbot or Scrapewise?

Scrapewise scores 62.5 (B) on agent readiness against Diffbot's 54.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Diffbot leads on reliability and transparency & trust.

Do Diffbot and Scrapewise need an API key?

Both need an API key.

Can an agent call Diffbot and Scrapewise without installing anything?

Yes. Diffbot has a hosted endpoint at https://api.diffbot.com/v3 and Scrapewise at https://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp.

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