Diffbot pricing: web scraping API, GET / v3/ article
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- FreeFree$0.00 per 1,000
- Free, Diffbot for StudentsDiffbot for Students$0.00 per 1,000
- $299 monthly, StartupStartup$1.196 per 1,000
- $899 monthly, PlusPlus$0.899 per 1,000
- Contact us, EnterpriseEnterprise
GET / v3/ article one of Diffbot's 2 calls for this API- Company discovery API
- Job postings API
- People search API
- Web scraping API
- People enrichment API
GET /kg/ v3/ enhance/ combine - People enrichment API
POST /kg/ v3/ enhance/ bulk - People enrichment API
GET /kg/ v3/ enhance - Company enrichment API
POST /kg/ v3/ enhance/ bulk - Company enrichment API
GET /kg/ v3/ enhance - Web search API
GET /api/ v1/ web_ search - Web search API
POST /api/ v1/ web_ search
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 5 of the 7 key fields we check. HTML, Text, Summary, Links, Images.
- Nothing to pay. You get 10,000 credits a month, enough for 10,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire at the monthly refresh, no rollover.
- One call. You send
urltoGET /. The call returns the page's content.v3/ article - Who can get it: anyone 13 or over. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Diffbot: web scraping API alternatives
Diffbot alternatives: every web scraping API provider ranked
The table starts with Diffbot's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 pages closest to Diffbot's.
| Diffbot, $899 monthly, Plus, GET /v3/article | crawlbrulee, €399 monthly, ultra, POST /api/scrape, Scrape (http, basic proxy) | Scrapeless, $49 monthly, Growth, POST /api/v2/unlocker/request, JS Render | Context.dev, $90 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/web/scrape, Scrape | Decodo, $999 monthly, $999, POST /v1/scrape, 1,110,000 requests a month | |
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| $ per 1,000 pages | $0.899 | $0.898 | $0.90 | $0.90 | $0.90 |
| Completeness | 71% | 57% | 86% | 57% | 43% |
| Billing | monthly | monthly | monthly | monthly | monthly |
| Pay | $899 | €399 | $49 | $90 | $999 |
| Enough for | 1,000,000 calls a month | 500,000 calls a month | about 54,444 calls a month | 100,000 calls a month | 1,110,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | unknown | 2 days | live | 3 days | live |
| Who can get it | anyone 13 or over | businesses and professionals acting in the course of their trade, business, craft, or profession | anyone | anyone aged 18 or over | anyone |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-01.
- diffbot.com
- diffbot.com/company/privacy
- diffbot.com/company/terms
- diffbot.com/docs/credits
- diffbot.com/docs/dql/concepts/origin
- diffbot.com/docs/dql/faq/data-sourcing
- diffbot.com/docs/extract
- diffbot.com/docs/extract/article
- diffbot.com/docs/extract/faq/caching
- diffbot.com/docs/rate-limits
- diffbot.com/pricing
- diffbot.com/products/knowledge-graph
- diffbot.com/technology
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Screenshot, not in the answer
- Markdown, not in the answer
- HTML
- Text
- Summary
- Links
- Images
| $ per 1,000 pages | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: Analyze (Extract API) · Product (Extract API) · Image (Extract API) · Video (Extract API) · Discussion (Extract API) · Event (Extract API) · List (Extract API) · Job (Extract API) · Extract with Custom API · Run a Web Search (GET) · Run a Web Search (POST) · Process Text · Search with DQL (GET) · Search with DQL (POST) · Enhance (GET) · Enhance (POST) · Combine · Create a Bulkjob |
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| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Automatically extract clean article text and other data from news articles, blog posts and other text-heavy pages. |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | USE RESTRICTIONS [...] You agree that you will not: sublicense, resell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, time share, or otherwise commercially exploit or make the Service available to any third party (However, you may display and use the facts generated by the Service as part of a commercial application.), use the Service for any unlawful purpose or for the promotion of illegal activities, use the Service to attempt to, or harass, abuse or harm another person or group, use another user’s account without permission, interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper functioning of the Site or Service, modify, adapt or hack the Service to, or otherwise attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service or its related systems or networks, use the API or the Data in any manner that violates the rights of any person, including but not limited to intellectual property rights, rights of privacy or rights of publicity, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the Service, bypass any robot exclusion headers or other measures we take to restrict access to the Site or Service or use any software, technology, or device to scrape, spider, or crawl the Site or Service or harvest or manipulate data, or publish or link to malicious content intended to damage or disrupt another user’s browser, computer, or mobile device. |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 10,000 credits a month |
| Enough for | 10,000 calls a month |
| Expires | at the monthly refresh, no rollover |
| Per second | 0.083 |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | url. Optional: fields, timeout, proxy, proxyAuth, useProxy, paging, maxTags, tagConfidence, categoryConfidence, discussion, naturalLanguage, summaryNumSentences |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /v3/article |
| Plan | Free |
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| Who can get it | anyone 13 or over |
The 40 fields the plan's answer can hold
page URL, API used, API version, page type, page title, page text, page HTML, published date, estimated date, author, authors, author URL, site name, site icon, language, publisher region, publisher country, page sentiment, page tags, page categories, images, Diffbot URI, page comments, resolved page URL, location, page count, next page URLs, videos, page links, external links, meta tags, query string, page breadcrumb, page quotes, named entities, summary, page facts, open facts, page records, page sentences