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Apify vs Diffbot

ApifyDiffbot

Bottom line: Apify for developers and technical data teams; Diffbot for developers and data teams.

ApifyApify

Cloud platform for web scraping and browser automation at scale

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DiffbotDiffbot

Automated web extraction and a trillion-fact Knowledge Graph

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PricingFreemiumFreemium
CategoryAutomationAutomation
Tags
web-scrapingbrowser-automationdeveloper-toolsdata-extractionproxies
web-scrapingknowledge-graphdata-extractionapientity-data
Best for
  • Developers and technical data teams
  • High-volume or complex scraping
  • Teams needing managed proxies at scale
  • Developers and data teams
  • Entity intelligence and enrichment use cases
  • Web-scale automatic extraction
Pros
  • Large marketplace of prebuilt Actors
  • Powerful for custom, code-based scrapers
  • Managed proxies and anti-blocking tools
  • Scheduling, storage, and datasets built in
  • Robust API and JS/Python SDKs
  • Automatic, vision-based extraction without site rules
  • Large Knowledge Graph of billions of entities
  • Powerful Crawlbot and Enhance capabilities
  • Clean structured JSON output
  • Strong developer documentation and API
Cons
  • Usage-based credit + proxy billing is hard to forecast
  • Store Actors add their own separate pricing
  • Steeper learning curve than no-code tools
  • No self-hosted/on-prem option
  • Costs can climb at high volume
  • Credit-based pricing can get expensive at scale
  • Knowledge Graph queries consume many credits
  • Developer-first; not a no-code tool
  • Coverage and accuracy vary by entity and source
  • No self-hosted option

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