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Diffbot vs ScrapingBee

Diffbot is an AI extraction API, while ScrapingBee is a Scraping API. Diffbot fits best for: Teams that need rule-free, consistent structured data across many sites, or entity data from a Knowledge Graph. ScrapingBee fits best for: Developers who want a predictable, easy scraping API that handles rendering and proxies without managing infrastructure.

DiffbotScrapingBee
TypeAI extraction APIScraping API
Starting price$299/mo$19/mo
Free tier10,000 credits/month, all APIs, 5 requests/min, no credit card1,000 free API credits trial, no credit card
Pricing modelcreditscredits per successful request
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.Developers who want a predictable, easy scraping API that handles rendering and proxies without managing infrastructure.
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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 ScrapingBee

  • Headless Chrome rendering with JS scenarios
  • Rotating and premium/stealth proxies
  • AI extraction via natural-language ai_query
  • CSS/XPath extract rules to JSON

Watch out for

  • JS rendering is on by default and costs 5x a plain request
  • Premium/stealth proxies multiply credit costs quickly
  • Hobby plan has low credits once JS + premium proxy are used
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