--- description: Review of Diffbot Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Diffbot | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice GB --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Web Scraping](/directory/4845/web-scraping/software) > [Diffbot](/software/74328/diffbot) # Diffbot Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/74328/diffbot > Diffbot is a cloud-based knowledge management solution designed for businesses of all sizes. It applies to various segments including marketing, business intelligence, sales and recruitment. The solution is primarily used by engineers to source web data. Key features include face detection, sentiment analysis, product extraction API, article extraction API, image extraction API and author identification. Diffbot offers products such as knowledge graphs, AI:X and crawlbot. Knowledge graphs search multiple entities such as people, companies and articles and discover relationships between them to perform analysis. This can be done using Diffbot Query language (DQL). Diffbot offers multiple APIs for the automatic extraction of data using artificial intelligence technology. APIs offered includes analyze API, article API, discussion API, image API, video API and more. Crawlbot uses different APIs to extract data including product prices, historical weather and content migration. Diffbot features text analysis and pages concatenation as well. The solution is priced on a monthly subscription basis. Support is provided via email, training documents, online help desk, documents and over the phone. > > Verdict: Rated **4.5/5** by 4 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.5/5** | 4 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 5.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 5.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Diffbot - **Location**: Mountain View, US ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$299.00 - **Pricing model**: (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - AI/Machine Learning - API - Collaboration Tools - Contact Database - Data Aggregation and Publishing - Data Extraction - Data Import/Export - Data Visualisation - Document Extraction - Email Address Extraction - HTML Parsing - IP Address Extraction - Image Extraction - Lead Capture - Lead Nurturing - Lead Qualification - Lead Segmentation - Lead Verification/Validation - Machine Learning - Multiple Data Sources ## Support Options - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Web Scraping](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4845/web-scraping/software) ## Related Categories - [Web Scraping](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4845/web-scraping/software) - [Data Extraction Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4555/data-extraction/software) - [Lead Generation Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/1674/lead-generation/software) - [Data Mining Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/402/data-mining/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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The time itself is valuable, but even more so when considering the opportunity cost of what that time could be spent doing in an early-stage startup. After integrating Diffbot, we have that time back to building our business, developing exciting features for our customers and growing our customer base. The API has been reliable and the data that Diffbot is retrieving adds value to our customers with every content brief that is created. > > **Cons**: No issues that we've experienced so far, it does exactly what we need it to. > > The biggest problem that Diffbot solved for us is reducing our time-to-market. Diffbot enabled us to rapidly build our product so that we could test it with an initial set of pilot customers. With Diffbot we were able to focus on solving problems for our customers instead of worrying about building or scaling a web scraper from scratch. As a result, we were able to get initial traction within a month of coming up with the idea and can now easily support the new customers that we are acquiring. ----- ### "The knowledge graph is amazing\!" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *12 September 2018* | Staffing & Recruiting | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: You can find anyone\! They've got the most up-to-date accurate info that is incredibly helpful when trying to source niche candidates for high-level development jobs. It feels like I have an unfair advantage with the data I'm able to pull. > > **Cons**: Took a little getting used to but their support team was really helpful and guided me in the query building process to find the right qualified candidates. > > As a technical recruiter, it's really important that the data I'm sourcing is accurate and up-to-date. I haven't found a platform with more detailed (or accurate) information anywhere else. I've tried others but Diffbot seems to aggregate the latest information which gives me a huge advantage over other recruiters. ----- ### "Simple app for easily extracting data from the web" — 4.0/5 > **Yaniv** | *3 August 2021* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: The integration of Diffbot with our platform helped us to easily extract data from articles in the web > > **Cons**: It was a bit unstable from time to time, but if it did - it was for very short period (and still...) ----- ### "Powerful scraping tool with necessary developer support" — 4.0/5 > **Jeremy** | *3 August 2018* | Internet | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: The basically out of the box crawler could scrape a bunch of data quickly. There were tons of features that clearly would be valuable with the help of internal developers. > > **Cons**: The initial output was generally pretty convoluted which required a lot of cleaning before being usable. It also required our own dev resources in order to really get the most out of it. ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/74328/diffbot) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | ----- ## Structured Data