# Diffbot vs Zyte API (slim)

> Zyte scores 69.7 (B) to Diffbot's 54.3 (C) for extraction. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-09

Zyte API scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against Diffbot's 54.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do extraction.

- Diffbot: C 54.3, rank #687 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/diffbot.min.md
- Zyte API: B 69.7, rank #175 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zyte.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.
- Zyte API, good for An agent or pipeline that fetches protected pages and wants the service to choose proxy and browser per site and to bill only success, and teams already on Scrapy. Ahead on Reliability, 85 against 55; Agent ergonomics, 72 against 63; Security & auth, 55 against 21; Maintenance & community, 77 against 57.

| Category | Diffbot | Zyte API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 55 | 85 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 83 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 21 | 55 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 57 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 68 | 66 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Diffbot | Zyte API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Diffbot Technologies Corp. | Zyte Group Limited |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.diffbot.com/v3` | `https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| 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 | Proprietary service under Zyte's terms of service. The Python client is BSD 3-Clause, and the Agentic Web Data plugin is under Zyte's own end-user licence |
| Tools exposed | none | 34 |
| Last release | 2026-06-15 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-09-22 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-29 | 2024-08-30 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 9 npm/wk, 45 PyPI/wk | 42k PyPI/wk |