AI extraction API
Diffbot review
AI that auto-classifies pages into structured entities and powers a web-scale Knowledge Graph.
Visit DiffbotPricing checked Oct 29, 2026
Starting price
$299/mo
Startup: 250,000 credits/month, 5 requests/sec, overage $0.001/credit
Free tier
10,000 credits/month, all APIs, 5 requests/min, no credit card
Pricing model
credits
Best for
Teams that need rule-free, consistent structured data across many sites, or entity data from a Knowledge Graph.
What it does well
- 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
- Official MCP server (remote at mcp.diffbot.com)
Limitations
- High jump from free to $299/mo
- Fixed page-type schemas; less flexible than prompt-based extraction
- Knowledge Graph credits are expensive per record
Capabilities
AI extraction
Structured JSON
JS rendering
Proxies / anti-bot
API
No-code UI
Open source
MCP server
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