# Diffbot vs Scrapewise

> Scrapewise scores 62.5 (B) to Diffbot's 54.3 (C) for extraction. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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.

- Diffbot: grade C, 54.3/100, rank #738 of 1098. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/diffbot.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/diffbot.json
- Scrapewise: grade B, 62.5/100, rank #462 of 1098. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapewise.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapewise.json
- Best web scraping and crawling APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/web-scrapers/index.md
- All 224 scrapers comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/web-scrapers/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Diffbot (C)

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
- 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)

Good 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

| Category | Weight | Diffbot | Scrapewise | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 45 | Diffbot +10 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 79 | Diffbot +4 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 63 | 86 | Scrapewise +23 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 21 | 58 | Scrapewise +37 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 40 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 57 | 79 | Scrapewise +22 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 53 | Diffbot +15 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **54.3 · C** | **62.5 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Diffbot | Scrapewise |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Diffbot Technologies Corp. | BEBOTECH OÜ |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.diffbot.com/v3` | `https://mcp.scrapewise.ai/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP | Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Price for extraction | $0.90 per 1,000 pages | not published |
| x402 | no | no |
| 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 | 14 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `ai.scrapewise/scrapewise` |
| Last release | 2026-06-15 | 2026-10-15 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2025-10-29 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-29 | 2025-10-29 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 9 npm/wk, 45 PyPI/wk | 1 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.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapewise.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/diffbot-vs-scrapewise.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "diffbot", "b": "scrapewise"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare diffbot scrapewise`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/diffbot.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapewise.json

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