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www.diffbot.com/pricing/Reader and extractor APIcrawler-scraper/diffbotJSONcomparereport an errorprovider JSON
- Free allowance
- 10,000 credits a month on the Free plan, 5 requests a minute, no credit card
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rate5 requests a minute on Free; 10,000 credits a month; Startup USD 299 a month
- Evidence
- documented1 source; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | 10,000 credits a month on the Free plan, 5 requests a minute, no credit card unit requests; metered on request-count |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate (binding) 5 requests a minute on Free source
- request-rate (binding) 10,000 credits a month; Startup USD 299 a month source
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| Identity | email no credit card required, stated on the Free plan |
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| Egress | not applicable |
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| Retention | credits reset monthly |
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| Interface | rest REST Article, Product, Discussion and Knowledge Graph APIs |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | The structured extractor; its Knowledge Graph queries cost 25 credits each, so a KG lookup is 25 pages of budget |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | 5 a minute is 300 an hour, so 10,000 credits is 33 hours of continuous work and the month ends before the credits do. |
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| Evidence note | documented page read; the platform report records the page carrying 9,500 as well as 10,000, which this read did not reproduce |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- request-rate 5 requests / minute
- request-rate 10000 credits / month
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Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | www.diffbot.com/pricing/ | Free: 10,000 credits a month, all four APIs, no credit card, 5 requests a minute; Startup USD 299 a month |
Unknown values 4
- egress terms: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field