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Browserbase vs Diffbot

Browserbase is a Proxy & data infrastructure, while Diffbot is an AI extraction API. Browserbase fits best for: Teams building AI agents that need to log in, click and navigate real browsers reliably in the cloud. Diffbot fits best for: Teams that need rule-free, consistent structured data across many sites, or entity data from a Knowledge Graph.

BrowserbaseDiffbot
TypeProxy & data infrastructureAI extraction API
Starting price$20/mo$299/mo
Free tier1 browser hour, 3 concurrent browsers10,000 credits/month, all APIs, 5 requests/min, no credit card
Pricing modelbrowser hours plus proxy GBcredits
AI extraction
Structured JSON
JS rendering
Proxies / anti-bot
API
No-code UI
Open source
MCP server
Best forTeams building AI agents that need to log in, click and navigate real browsers reliably in the cloud.Teams that need rule-free, consistent structured data across many sites, or entity data from a Knowledge Graph.
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Why choose Browserbase

  • Serverless headless Chrome sessions at scale
  • Stagehand open-source SDK for natural-language actions and extraction
  • Session replay and debugging
  • Stealth, proxies and persistent auth contexts

Watch out for

  • Infrastructure, not a turnkey scraper: you write the automation
  • Billing by browser hours can add up for slow pages
  • Proxy bandwidth billed separately

Why choose Diffbot

  • Automatic Extract APIs (article, product, discussion etc.) with no rules
  • Crawlbot for whole-site crawling
  • Knowledge Graph of organizations, people and articles
  • Natural-language processing API

Watch out for

  • High jump from free to $299/mo
  • Fixed page-type schemas; less flexible than prompt-based extraction
  • Knowledge Graph credits are expensive per record
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