specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Diffbot
providerId: diffbot
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-06'
generated: '2026-09-06'
method: searched
source: https://www.diffbot.com/pricing (fetched 2026-09-06, HTTP 200) and https://www.diffbot.com/docs/credits
# 2026-09-06: replaced the 2026-05-04 scaffold, whose tiers and prices were placeholder
# defaults, with the four tiers Diffbot actually publishes.
tags:
  - Extraction
  - Harvesting
  - Scraping
  - Web
description: >-
  Diffbot's published, self-serve plans. Pricing is a single credit currency spent across all
  APIs rather than per-API pricing: a credit is the unit of processing, and each product
  consumes a documented number of credits per action. Monthly credits do not roll over.
currency: USD
billingPeriod: month
contract: none
cancellation: Monthly subscription, cancel any time; no charge for the following month.
plan_count: 4
plans:
  - id: diffbot-free
    name: Free
    type: freemium
    price: '0.00'
    currency: USD
    billingPeriod: month
    description: Kick the tires on every API. No credit card required.
    entries:
      - label: Credits
        name: credits
        type: quota
        metric: credits
        limit: 10000
        timeFrame: month
        note: >-
          The pricing calculator's worked example shows 9,500 credits allocated across a
          sample workload; the plan card states 10,000 credits/month as the allowance.
      - label: Rate limit
        name: rate_limit
        type: rate
        metric: requests_per_minute
        limit: 5
        timeFrame: minute
      - label: APIs included
        name: apis
        type: feature
        value: All four APIs
      - label: Overage
        name: overage
        type: feature
        value: >-
          None — the plan hard-stops with a 429 Quota Exceeded once credits or the rate limit
          are hit. Quotas reset at the start of each billing period.
      - label: Credit card
        name: card_required
        type: feature
        value: 'No'
  - id: diffbot-startup
    name: Startup
    type: paid
    price: '299.00'
    currency: USD
    billingPeriod: month
    description: For production workloads finding their feet.
    entries:
      - label: Credits
        name: credits
        type: quota
        metric: credits
        limit: 250000
        timeFrame: month
      - label: Rate limit
        name: rate_limit
        type: rate
        metric: requests_per_second
        limit: 5
        timeFrame: second
      - label: Overage
        name: overage
        type: overage
        unitPrice: '0.001'
        unit: credit
        currency: USD
        note: Billed pro rata on the next invoice; no additional overage fee.
      - label: APIs included
        name: apis
        type: feature
        value: All four APIs
      - label: Crawl
        name: crawl
        type: feature
        value: Not included
  - id: diffbot-plus
    name: Plus
    type: paid
    price: '899.00'
    currency: USD
    billingPeriod: month
    description: For teams scaling steady, heavy usage.
    entries:
      - label: Credits
        name: credits
        type: quota
        metric: credits
        limit: 1000000
        timeFrame: month
      - label: Rate limit
        name: rate_limit
        type: rate
        metric: requests_per_second
        limit: 25
        timeFrame: second
      - label: Overage
        name: overage
        type: overage
        unitPrice: '0.0009'
        unit: credit
        currency: USD
        note: >-
          Diffbot's own worked example — 1,500,000 credits on Plus is $899 + 500,000 × $0.0009.
      - label: Crawl
        name: crawl
        type: quota
        metric: active_jobs
        limit: 25
      - label: User seats
        name: seats
        type: quota
        metric: seats
        limit: 3
  - id: diffbot-enterprise
    name: Enterprise
    type: custom
    price: null
    currency: USD
    billingPeriod: month
    description: Custom volume, rate limits, and support.
    contact: sales@diffbot.com
    entries:
      - label: Credits
        name: credits
        type: quota
        metric: credits
        limit: null
        value: Custom credit allotment
      - label: Rate limit
        name: rate_limit
        type: rate
        metric: requests_per_second
        limit: 25
        value: 25+ requests/sec
      - label: Crawl
        name: crawl
        type: quota
        metric: active_jobs
        limit: 100
        value: 100+ active crawls
      - label: User seats
        name: seats
        type: feature
        value: Custom user seats
      - label: Support
        name: support
        type: feature
        value: Dedicated support
creditModel:
  unit: credit
  rollover: false
  docs: https://www.diffbot.com/docs/credits
  consumption:
    - product: Extract
      action: Extract 1 page
      credits: 1
    - product: Extract
      action: Extract 1 page via datacenter proxy
      credits: 2
    - product: Crawl
      action: Spider a site for links and pages
      credits: 0
    - product: Natural Language
      action: Process 1 document (<= 10,000 characters)
      credits: 1
    - product: Knowledge Graph
      action: Export 1 entity record
      credits: 25
    - product: Knowledge Graph
      action: Export 1 facet query record
      credits: 100
    - product: Knowledge Graph
      action: Enhance 1 entity record
      credits: 25
    - product: Knowledge Graph
      action: Enhance 1 entity record with refresh (re-crawl sources)
      credits: 100
    - product: Web Search
      action: Run 1 search
      credits: 1
  no_charge_conditions:
    - Knowledge Graph searches run from the dashboard (app.diffbot.com)
    - Knowledge Graph searches that return 0 entities
    - Enhance calls where no match is found
    - Crawl spidering for links (only successful extraction is charged)
discounts:
  - name: Diffbot for Students
    description: >-
      Startup-tier access free of charge for students and academic researchers, per the
      pricing-page FAQ.
  - name: Open-source Web Search upgrade
    description: >-
      Diffbot states it will upgrade a token to 1,000,000 Web Search queries/month at no cost
      for open-source projects — star and open an issue on diffbot-python, diffbot-typescript
      or diffbot-skills to request it.
    source: https://www.diffbot.com/docs/web-search/