Diffbot alternatives

3 tools to consider instead of Diffbot, shown against it.

Diffbot Firecrawl Bright Data ScrapingBee
Vendor Diffbot Technologies Corporation Mendable AI, Inc. Bright Data Ltd. ScrapingBee SAS
Pricing model Subscription Free tier + paid plans Usage-based Subscription
Free tier Yes Yes Yes No
Deployment Cloud Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud Cloud
Open source No Yes (AGPL-3.0) No No
Best for Teams that need structured data from many unfamiliar sites without maintaining per-site extraction rules. Teams feeding web content into LLM, RAG or agent pipelines rather than building traditional scrapers. Teams that need IP diversity and anti-blocking infrastructure at scale rather than a scraping library. Developers who need a simple, drop-in fetch API rather than a full scraping platform.
Pricing

Monthly plans include a credit allowance consumed per successful API call, with per-credit overage pricing beyond the plan limit; higher tiers add crawl capacity and seats.

Free $0/month
Startup $299/month
Plus $899/month
Enterprise custom

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Monthly plans include a credit allowance consumed per page scraped; higher tiers add crawling depth and priority support; pay-as-you-go credit top-ups available.

Free $0/month
Hobby $19/month ($16/month billed annually)
Standard $83/month billed annually
Growth $333/month billed annually

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Per-GB proxy pricing and per-request API pricing, split across separate product pages (proxies, Scraper APIs, Scraping Browser, SERP API, datasets); a free trial is offered on several products.

Checked on the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026: no prices are published. Expect to be quoted.

Monthly plans include an API-credit allowance; JavaScript rendering and premium proxies consume more credits per request. A free trial (no paid free tier) is offered.

Hobby $19/month
Freelance $49/month
Startup $99/month
Business $249/month

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Features
  • Automatic page-type classification (article, product, discussion, event, image)
  • ML-based extraction with no per-site rules to maintain
  • Full-site Crawl product for bulk extraction
  • Knowledge Graph of entities built from web-scale crawling
  • Natural-language query interface over extracted/graph data
  • Visual and NLP models trained specifically for web content
  • REST API with per-credit billing
  • URL-to-Markdown/JSON scraping API
  • Site crawl mode that follows internal links
  • Schema- or prompt-based structured extraction
  • JavaScript rendering for dynamic pages
  • Map endpoint for fast URL discovery across a domain
  • Open-source self-hosted engine available
  • SDKs for Python, Node.js and LangChain/LlamaIndex integration
  • Residential, datacenter, ISP and mobile proxy networks
  • Web Unlocker for automatic CAPTCHA/bot-detection handling
  • Managed Scraping Browser (headless browser as a service)
  • SERP API for search engine results
  • Pre-built Scraper APIs for specific sites (e-commerce, social, maps)
  • Ready-made and custom datasets marketplace
  • Geo-targeting and session control (country, city, sticky sessions)
  • Single API call for JavaScript-rendered page fetching
  • Automatic proxy rotation with premium/residential options
  • AI-based and CSS-selector data extraction
  • Screenshot capture endpoint
  • Geotargeting by country
  • Google search and Google Maps scraping endpoints
  • Concurrency-based rate limits per plan

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