# Diffbot vs Scrapfly (slim)

> Scrapfly scores 69.6 (B) to Diffbot's 54.3 (C) for extraction. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Scrapfly scores 69.6 (B) on agent readiness against Diffbot's 54.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Diffbot leads on reliability. Both do extraction.

- Diffbot: C 54.3, rank #687 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/diffbot.min.md
- Scrapfly: B 69.6, rank #176 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapfly.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 50.
- Scrapfly, good for An agent that needs scrape, screenshot, extraction, crawl and a hosted browser from one key, with errors it can branch on. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 95 against 83; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 63; Security & auth, 70 against 21; Maintenance & community, 84 against 57; Transparency & trust, 75 against 68. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Diffbot | Scrapfly |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 55 | 50 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 83 | 95 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 80 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 21 | 70 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 57 | 84 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 68 | 75 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Diffbot | Scrapfly |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Diffbot Technologies Corp. | Scrapfly (Joam Intelligence, LLC) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.diffbot.com/v3` | `https://api.scrapfly.io/scrape` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| 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 | 61 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.scrapfly.mcp/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-06-15 | 2026-09-08 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-09-30 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-29 | 2026-05-14 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| 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 | 14 stars, 21k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 4/5 (2) |