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Diffbot vs Octoparse

Diffbot is an AI extraction API, while Octoparse is a No-code. Diffbot fits best for: Teams that need rule-free, consistent structured data across many sites, or entity data from a Knowledge Graph. Octoparse fits best for: Business users who need recurring, template-driven scraping without code and prefer a visual desktop tool.

DiffbotOctoparse
TypeAI extraction APINo-code
Starting price$299/mo$69/mo
Free tier10,000 credits/month, all APIs, 5 requests/min, no credit cardFree forever: 10 tasks, local runs only, 1 device, up to 50K rows exported/month
Pricing modelcreditssubscription tiers by task count and cloud concurrency
AI extraction
Structured JSON
JS rendering
Proxies / anti-bot
API
No-code UI
Open source
MCP server
Best forTeams that need rule-free, consistent structured data across many sites, or entity data from a Knowledge Graph.Business users who need recurring, template-driven scraping without code and prefer a visual desktop tool.
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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

Why choose Octoparse

  • Visual point-and-click workflow designer (Windows/Mac app)
  • Large library of prebuilt templates
  • Cloud extraction with scheduling
  • IP rotation and CAPTCHA solving on paid plans

Watch out for

  • Desktop app has a learning curve for complex sites
  • Cloud runs and proxies require paid plans
  • Not an LLM-first tool; limited schema-based AI extraction
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