What Diffbot does well
Diffbot's automatic extraction (Article, Product, and other entity types) and its Knowledge Graph are genuinely differentiated — entity-level structured data at web scale. For teams whose core need is a queryable graph of companies, people, and articles, Diffbot is in a category of its own.
Where Ollagraph goes further
- Lower entry barrier. Pay-as-you-go from $5 and 1,000 free credits to start, versus an enterprise-oriented entry point.
- Markdown + scraping control. Clean LLM-ready markdown, action macros, and a full scrape/crawl surface alongside extraction. Diffbot centers on automatic extraction and the graph.
- Browser automation + MCP. Persistent sessions, natural-language actions, and a Model Context Protocol server for agents.
- One bill across layers. Scrape, extract, intelligence, actors, and automation all draw from the same credits.
Side by side
| Feature | Diffbot | Ollagraph |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic content extraction | Native AI | Native |
| Web-scale Knowledge Graph | Yes (its core) | Not offered |
| Clean markdown output for LLMs | Partial | Native |
| Browser automation (sessions + NL actions) | Not offered | Included |
| Vertical actors (Amazon, Zillow, Maps) | Via extraction | Dedicated extractors |
| MCP server for AI agents | Not offered | Included |
| Free to start | Trial | 1,000 credits |
Who each is best for
Choose Diffbot if: Teams whose core need is a web-scale knowledge graph or entity database — companies, people, articles — queried at scale.
Choose Ollagraph if: Teams who need scraping plus clean markdown plus browser automation plus agent tooling at a low entry point, and don't need a standalone knowledge graph.
Sources & further reading
The standards behind every tool in this comparison, for readers who want the primary sources rather than our summary of them:
- Web scraping (Wikipedia) — the category these tools operate in, with its technical and legal background.
- RFC 9309 — Robots Exclusion Protocol (IETF, 2022) — the robots.txt standard a responsible crawler honors.
- JSON-LD 1.1 (W3C Recommendation) — the structured-data format these tools extract.
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (Lewis et al., 2020) — the AI pattern most of this web data ultimately feeds.