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Diffbot vs Zyte
Diffbot and Zyte solve different problems. Diffbot is an AI and computer-vision web-data extraction service built around a Knowledge Graph of the public web. Zyte (the Zyte API, from the makers of Scrapy and Crawlera) is an enterprise all-in-one scraping API with anti-bot handling and a structured Google SERP API. One turns pages into structured entities; the other fetches hard-to-reach pages reliably.
Key differences.
Cost, side by side.
| Pricing model | Diffbot | Zyte |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 10,000 credits/mo | $5 free credit, first month |
| Entry | Startup $299/mo (250K credits) | Usage-based, no flat plan |
| Mid | Plus $899/mo (1M credits) | Usage-based, no flat plan |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom |
| Pricing model | Flat monthly credit plans | ~$0.001 to $0.008+ per request, by complexity |
Diffbot bills flat monthly credit plans starting at $299/mo, with a generous 10,000 free credits per month. Zyte is pure usage-based, roughly $0.001 per basic request to $0.008 or more for browser rendering, with volume discounts of 25 to 52% and a monthly commitment required above about $100 of spend. The two are priced for different jobs, so compare on your actual use case.
Feature by feature.
| Feature | Diffbot | Zyte |
|---|---|---|
| JavaScript rendering | Yes | Yes |
| Residential proxies | Partial | Yes |
| Geotargeting | No | Yes |
| CAPTCHA solving | No | Yes (automatic) |
| Google SERP API | No (own Knowledge Graph search) | Yes |
| Article / content extraction | Yes (flagship) | Yes |
| AI / LLM extraction | Yes (computer-vision + NLP) | Yes |
| Knowledge Graph | Yes (public-web entities) | No |
| Screenshots | No | Yes |
| PDF output | No | No |
| Interactive playground | Yes (Test Drive) | Yes |
| MCP server | Yes | Partial |
An honest look at each.
- Knowledge Graph of the public web with billions of entities
- Flagship article and content extraction
- AI and computer-vision extraction with NLP
- Flat monthly plans and a generous 10,000 free credits/mo
- Test Drive playground and an MCP server
- Expensive entry point ($299/mo)
- Not a general scraper, anti-bot or SERP tool
- No CAPTCHA solving or geotargeting
- No screenshots or PDF output
Zyte- Enterprise all-in-one scraping API
- Automatic CAPTCHA solving and anti-bot handling
- Structured Google SERP API
- Built-in article and AI extraction
- From the team behind Scrapy and Crawlera
- Opaque, complex usage-based pricing
- Monthly-commitment requirement above ~$100 of spend
- No Knowledge Graph equivalent
- No PDF output
We do our best to keep this comparison accurate and up-to-date. If you notice any discrepancies, please let us know.
Our take: Diffbot for structured web data, Zyte for hard-to-reach pages
These tools are not direct competitors. Diffbot is the choice when you want pages turned into structured entities or need its Knowledge Graph of the public web, with strong AI and computer-vision extraction. Zyte is the choice when the challenge is reaching the page at all: it handles CAPTCHAs, anti-bot defenses and proxies, and adds a structured Google SERP API. Pick Diffbot for extraction and knowledge data, Zyte for reliable large-scale fetching. Neither generates PDFs.