# Diffbot vs ScrapingBee (slim)

> ScrapingBee scores 59.2 (C) to Diffbot's 54.3 (C) for extraction. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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ScrapingBee scores 59.2 (C) on agent readiness against Diffbot's 54.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Diffbot leads on schema & documentation and transparency & trust. Both do extraction.

- Diffbot: C 54.3, rank #687 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/diffbot.min.md
- ScrapingBee: C 59.2, rank #557 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee.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 60; Transparency & trust, 68 against 63.
- ScrapingBee, good for Agents that mix general scraping with ready-made Google, Amazon and YouTube endpoints and want spend capped per call. Ahead on Reliability, 70 against 55; Agent ergonomics, 68 against 63; Security & auth, 37 against 21; Maintenance & community, 85 against 57.

| Category | Diffbot | ScrapingBee |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 55 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 83 | 60 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 68 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 21 | 37 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 57 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 68 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Diffbot | ScrapingBee |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Diffbot Technologies Corp. | ScrapingBee (Oxylabs group) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.diffbot.com/v3` | `https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| 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 | 18 |
| Last release | 2026-06-15 | 2026-09-11 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2024-07-15 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-29 | 2024-07-15 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 9 npm/wk, 45 PyPI/wk | 132 stars, 49k npm/wk, 72k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 4/5 (2) |