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Diffbot pricing
How Diffbot credits vary across extraction, crawl, language, and Knowledge Graph work, what is unclear, and who fits.
Every available option was priced in advance from published vendor rules. Changing a control only switches between those checked options; nothing is sent anywhere and no account is needed.
Your job
What Diffbot counts
Nothing to count: Diffbot publishes no rate for a page fetch. Its 3 published billing meters price other work.
What you pay
Successes you want
100,000 pages
Your stated workload. Every vendor on this site is priced against this same number.
- ÷ 0.95
Attempts you are billed for
105,263 requests
Diffbot bills failed fetches, so a 5% failure rate is billed work.
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Cash per month
Not comparable here
no published rate for request.basic
Bars share one linear scale across the 2 counted stages, so a multiplier shows as length. Units differ by stage and are labelled. Cash is not on that scale.
Not comparable. This product publishes no rate for this kind of work.
no published rate for request.basic
This is a finding about what Diffbot publishes, not a gap in the data. It stays visible so a definitive market claim cannot quietly ignore it.
Published exact bills for comparable products
Same 100,000 JavaScript-rendered pages a month at a 95% success rate, ranked by what you would actually be billed. Unknown totals never enter the numeric order.
Every Diffbot plan
| Plan | Monthly | If billed yearly | Prepaid pack | Included | Simultaneous sessions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Startup | $299.00 | n/a | n/a | 250,000 credit | n/a |
| Plus | $899.00 | n/a | n/a | 1,000,000 credit | n/a |
What consumes a unit
This is where a bill actually grows. One operation is not one billed unit, and the multiplier is published here rather than on the pricing page.
| Operation | Costs | Per | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| request.ai_extraction | 1 credit | page | source |
| request.premium_proxy | 2 credit | page | source |
| crawl.page | 1 credit | page | source |
What Diffbot does not publish
- No annual self-serve price is published.
- Direct Extract failure billing is not explicitly separated from general request billing.
- Concurrent-request limits are not published; the page gives calls-per-second rate limits instead.
What Diffbot is
Diffbot provides automatic page extraction APIs, site crawling, natural-language processing, and access to a structured Knowledge Graph of public web entities. It is for teams that want normalized articles, products, organizations, people, or other entities rather than only raw HTML. AgentQL, Firecrawl, and Browse AI are the nearest named comparisons, but they emphasize semantic page queries, crawl-ready content for applications, or no-code robots. Diffbot’s distinguishing scope is the combination of page-type extraction and an existing web-scale entity graph. Sources: Diffbot pricing, Diffbot Extract, Diffbot Crawl, Diffbot Knowledge Graph, AgentQL, Firecrawl pricing, and Browse AI pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26.
How billing works
One credit is the common accounting unit, but products consume different numbers of credits. Extracting a page, extracting through a datacenter proxy, processing a text document, exporting a Knowledge Graph entity, and refreshing an entity do not have the same weight. Crawling for links itself does not consume credits, while each successfully extracted crawl page does. Overage is charged at the current plan’s per-credit rate, and self-serve allowances refresh monthly without rollover. The common buying mistake is to treat one credit as one page across the entire platform. That mapping applies only to selected operations. Sources: Diffbot credit documentation and Diffbot pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26.
What Diffbot does not publish clearly
- An annual self-serve price on the reviewed pricing page. Source reviewed: Diffbot pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26.
- A direct Extract API failure rule separated from the general statement that credits are consumed when requests are made. Source reviewed: Diffbot credit documentation, retrieved 2026-07-26.
- One cost-per-page figure that covers Extract, Crawl, Natural Language, and Knowledge Graph operations. Source reviewed: Diffbot credit documentation, retrieved 2026-07-26.
- A self-serve crawl allowance on the lower tiers; public rate-limit documentation makes Crawl available only on the higher listed tier. Source reviewed: Diffbot rate limits, retrieved 2026-07-26.
Who it suits
Diffbot suits teams that need normalized entity data, several extraction types, or a Knowledge Graph alongside page extraction. It is less suitable for a buyer seeking only raw page retrieval at one uniform success-only rate, or for a low-tier team that requires Crawl. The reason is that credits unify the invoice but not the workload: different operations have different weights, access limits, and success semantics. A useful procurement estimate must start with the exact Diffbot operation mix, not a generic page count. Sources: Diffbot pricing, credit documentation, and rate-limit documentation, retrieved 2026-07-26.
Answer
What Diffbot costs, what it publishes, and what it does not. Every figure sourced and dated.
Recorded 2026-07-26 from the vendor's own pricing page.A vendor page moved or could not be matched closely enough. Treat this as an older snapshot and check the vendor before buying.