Diffbot vs Oxylabs
Diffbot is an AI extraction API, while Oxylabs is a Proxy & data infrastructure. Diffbot fits best for: Teams that need rule-free, consistent structured data across many sites, or entity data from a Knowledge Graph. Oxylabs fits best for: Businesses needing reliable proxies and a managed scraping API for search and e-commerce data at scale.
| Diffbot | Oxylabs | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | AI extraction API | Proxy & data infrastructure |
| Starting price | $299/mo | $30/mo |
| Free tier | 10,000 credits/month, all APIs, 5 requests/min, no credit card | $5 'Welcome credits' usable on any product |
| Pricing model | credits | per 1K results (Scraper API) and per GB (proxies) |
| AI extraction | ||
| Structured JSON | ||
| JS rendering | ||
| Proxies / anti-bot | ||
| API | ||
| No-code UI | ||
| Open source | ||
| MCP server | ||
| Best for | Teams that need rule-free, consistent structured data across many sites, or entity data from a Knowledge Graph. | Businesses needing reliable proxies and a managed scraping API for search and e-commerce data at scale. |
| Visit Diffbot | Visit Oxylabs |
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 Oxylabs
- Large residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter proxy pools
- Web Scraper API with JS rendering and geotargeting
- OxyCopilot / AI-assisted parsing
- Dedicated Google, Amazon and e-commerce scrapers
Watch out for
- Enterprise focus; pricing gets complex across products
- Smallest proxy tiers are relatively expensive per GB
- AI features priced separately and not clearly listed
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