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Diffbot

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Agent-Ready SaaS Index · diffbot.com · scored 2026-05-09 · rubric v2.0
Score 78 / 100
Data Scraping APIs
Free tier
Self-serve checkout
Public API

Diffbot scores 78/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; self-serve checkout is available; a public API exists with documentation; usage-based / per-token pricing is published; a free entry path exists.

See Diffbot pricing summaryLive pricing page
Pricing
Diffbot pricing
As of 2026-05-09 · www.diffbot.com/pricing/
Free
Free
Full API access
10,000 credits per month
5 calls per minute
Startup
$299/mo
flat
Extract, Bulk Extract, Crawl, Natural Language, Knowledge Graph, Search, Enhance
250,000 credits per month
5 calls per second
Plus
$899/mo
flat
All Startup features
1,000,000 credits per month
25 calls per second
Enterprise
Sales
Contact sales
Custom credit allotment & rate
100+ active crawls
Dedicated SLA and support
Score breakdown · rubric v2.0
How Diffbot scores on the agent-ready dimensions

Public pricing visibility

15 / 15

Self-serve checkout

15 / 15

Public API + docs

16 / 20

Usage-based / metered pricing

13 / 20

Free entry path

7 / 7

No sales call required

7 / 7

Card / wallet / x402 payment

5 / 6

Machine-readable bonus (MCP / OpenAPI)

0 / 10

Total
78 / 100
Effective pricing
What it actually costs at typical scale
Free plan, up to 10,000 credits
$0/mo
· No overage usage· Free tier limits apply
Confidence: high
Startup plan, 250,000 credits included
$299/mo
· Usage stays within included credits· No additional overage
Confidence: high
Plus plan, 1,000,000 credits included
$899/mo
· Usage stays within included credits· No additional overage
Confidence: high
Agent purchase verdict
Can an autonomous agent transact here?
Agent-ready
LLM score: 100/100

Can create account

Yes

Can enter payment method

Yes

Can upgrade plan

Yes

Can buy more usage

Yes

Can cancel online

Yes

Payment methods

card
invoice

Human approval recommended

No

Pricing transparency

full

Purchase motion

self_serve

Demo required

No

Quote required

No

Annual commit required

No

Auto-renewal mentioned

Yes

Cancellation policy visible

Yes

Refund policy visible

No

Invoice payment available

Yes

Purchase orders supported

Yes

MSA required

Yes

DPA available

Yes

Security review required

Unknown

Trial

Available, no card

Education discount

Yes

Startup credits

Free Startup tier for students

API readiness
API & developer surface

API-first product

Yes

Sandbox present

No

Webhooks

No

MCP mentioned

No

Rate limits

Free: 5 calls/min; Startup: 5 calls/sec; Plus: 25 calls/sec

Enterprise signals
Trust & compliance

SSO / SAML

Unknown

RBAC

Unknown

Audit logs

Unknown

Data residency

US

Competitive intel
Positioning & ecosystem

Buyer persona

developer
enterprise
smb

Agent purchase simulation
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Diffbot?
✓

Discover price

https://www.diffbot.com/pricing/ — four tiers visible with per-credit rates
✓

Select a plan

Free / Startup / Plus / Enterprise distinguishable
✓

Pay per task

Per-credit overage rate published; 1 credit/page Extract
◐

Avoid a sales call

Free, Startup and Plus all self-serve via app.diffbot.com/plans
✓

API docs without auth

https://docs.diffbot.com — public
✓

Estimate cost upfront

Credit-cost table per activity displayed on /pricing
Analysis
Pros and cons for AI agents
Observational summary written by xpay from the signals captured on 2026-05-03. Not a review of the product — only of its current pricing posture for agent buyers.
✓ For an AI agent
  • Pricing is publicly visible on an indexable page — agents can read tiers without scraping past auth.
  • Per-unit billing is published, so an agent can budget for a single task before committing.
  • API documentation is reachable without a login — discovery and integration can happen in one session.
  • Per-unit rate is concrete enough that an agent can model expected spend before issuing a request.
  • A free tier exists, lowering the bar for an agent builder to prototype before committing budget.
◐ Opportunities for the provider
  • Some tiers are sales-led; the highest-capacity surfaces are not self-serve.
  • PPU requires account creation and an issued API key; a fully unauthenticated agent purchase is not yet supported.
  • No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
One-line fix
How Diffbot could lift its score

Add a per-unit price (e.g. $X / 1K calls) to the pricing page so an agent can compute its own cost before committing.

pricing_visible

true

headline_phrasing

Plans & Pricing — Plans starting at Free. No contracts required.

tier_count

1

lowest_paid_entry_usd

0

free_tier

true

free_tier_terms

null

per_unit_price

null

annual_required

false

self_serve_paid_tiers

1

sales_only_tiers

0

public_api_docs_url

https://www.diffbot.com/products/

api_docs_auth_walled

false

ai_pricing_json_present

false

agents_txt_present

false

anonymous_purchase_path

false

per_unit_classification

null

usage_headline_present

false

custom_tier_present

true

agent_friendly

{"ai_pricing_json":false,"agents_txt":false,"llms_txt":false,"sitemap_xml":true,"mcp_server_card":false,"agent_skills_index":false,"x402_supported":false}

View raw extracted page text →
Page heading: Plans & Pricing · $0/mo
CTAs (40): Data · News & Articles · Organizations · Products · Events · Discussions · Solutions · Market Intelligence · News Monitoring · Machine Learning · Ecommerce · Extract
Price tokens (8): $0/mo Jumpstart hobby pr · $0 per credit · $299/mo Small teams lookin · $0.001 per Credit · $899/mo Everything in Star · $0.0009 per Credit · $899 · $0.0009/credit
Data News & Articles Organizations Products Events Discussions Solutions Market Intelligence News Monitoring Machine Learning Ecommerce Products Extract Crawl Natural Language Knowledge Graph LeadGraph Pricing Resources Tools & Guides Customer Stories Diffbot for Students Documentation Changelog Company About Us News Customer Stories Careers Blog Login Get Started Free Login Signup Plans & Pricing Plans starting at Free. No contracts required. Get Started for Free No credit card required. Full API access. Free $0/mo Jumpstart hobby projects. No credit card required. Free forever. See rate limits. Get Started for Free Product Access Extract Bulk Extract Crawl Natural Language Knowledge Graph Search Knowledge Graph Enhance Usage & Features 10,000 Credits ($0 per credit) What are credits? 5 Calls Per Minute Dashboard Access API Access Token Management Multiple User Licenses Support Chat/Email Custom SLA Managed Solutions Shared Slack Channel Get Started for Free Startup $299/mo Small teams looking for easy, plug-and-play scraping and Knowledge Graph access. Get Started Products Included Extract Bulk Extract Crawl Natural Language Knowledge Graph Search Knowledge Graph Enhance Usage & Features 250,000 Credits ($0.001 per Credit) What are credits? 5 Calls Per Second Dashboard Access API Access Token Management Multiple User Licenses Support Chat/Email Custom SLA Managed Solutions Shared Slack Channel Get Started Plus $899/mo Everything in Startup, plus access to Crawl and discount…
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Agent-Ready Spec
Diffbot
Agent-Ready Verified

78

/ 100 (rubric v2.0)
Category

Data Scraping APIs

Pricing model

Plans & Pricing — Plans starting at Free. No contracts required.

Tier count

1

Free tier

Yes

Lowest paid entry

Free

Self-serve / sales-only tiers

1 / 0

Public API docs

Public

Anonymous purchase path

No

Machine-readable pricing

Not published

Last refreshed

2026-05-09

Pricing intelligenceInsights extracted from www.diffbot.com/pricing/
Pricing model

Tier-based subscription

Agent-purchase verdict
Agent-ready
100/100 · v2.1
Canonical answer

Diffbot pricing starts at $0/mo for the Free plan; paid plans up to $899/mo. Billed monthly.

Cheapest entry

Free plan (Free)

Actions
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Verdict reflects Agent-Ready Verified status under rubric v2.0. Source observed at https://www.diffbot.com/pricing/.
Agent-friendly features1 of 7 present
Discovery files and protocols
Side-channel signals — informational, not part of the score. Each protocol is independent; adoption signals the publisher is thinking about agent buyers.

ai-pricing.json

agents.txt

llms.txt

sitemap.xml

MCP Server Card

Agent Skills

x402 / MPP

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