Build or Bill

AI assistants and search

Diffbot alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

firecrawl/firecrawl162,514AGPL-3.0A context API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale.Open on GitHub getmaxun/maxun17,064AGPL-3.0No-code platform for web scraping, crawling, search, and AI data extraction.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

  • Access to Diffbot’s massive pre-built Knowledge Graph of the public web
  • High-volume, low-latency, production-hardened crawling and processing infrastructure
  • Out-of-the-box credit-based metering, rate-limits, and enterprise support

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Diffbot, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.