Diffbot

What is Diffbot?

Diffbot is a structured web data and knowledge platform for developers and AI teams who need facts from the public web as JSON. It offers extraction, crawling, natural language and Knowledge Graph APIs.

Key features of Diffbot

• Extract: turns a URL into structured JSON.
• Crawl: walks an entire site from a seed URL and builds a structured dataset.
• Natural Language: finds entities, relationships, facts and sentiment in text.
• Knowledge Graph: structured queries about companies, people and news.
• Web Search: low-latency search with a self-host option; the vendor reports a P90 latency under 300 ms.

How Diffbot works

You call an API with a URL or query, and it returns structured data. Usage is billed in credits: extracting a page costs 1 credit, exporting a Knowledge Graph entity costs 25, and crawling costs 0 credits.

Who uses Diffbot?

The vendor's homepage does not name customers but links to customer stories. It also runs a Diffbot for Students program that gives students and academic researchers Startup-tier access.

Diffbot pricing

Diffbot has a Free plan at $0 with 10,000 credits per month and no credit card, Startup at $299 per month for 250,000 credits, Plus at $899 for 1,000,000 credits and 3 seats, and a custom Enterprise plan. Overage on paid plans is $0.001 per credit on Startup and $0.0009 on Plus. There is no long-term contract.

Diffbot integrations

Diffbot does not name third-party integrations on its homepage; it is consumed through its APIs and agent skills.

Diffbot alternatives

Tableau is a visual analytics tool for data you already hold, not a data collection API. Microsoft Power BI and Looker are BI suites that could display data Diffbot extracts. Diffbot supplies the web data these tools lack.