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Platforms & structured data: ready-made scrapers and AI extraction that return structured data. Few direct peers, so 2 from neighbouring groups are added.
| Option | Model | Starts at | Free | Formats / proxy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subscription | $19 / mo | $5 prepaid platform usage per month, no credit card; blocked until next cycle once used | mdproxy · tiered | |
| Credits | $0 / mo | 10,000 credits / month, no credit card required | jsonno proxy | |
| Requests | Contact sales | 5K records/mo (Web Scraper); 5K requests/mo (Web Unlocker) | jsonproxy | |
| Subscription | $0 / mo | Free plan: up to 5K crawls or 10K pages scraped per month, 10 req/s | mdhtmljsonscreenshotproxy · tiered |
Structured knowledge from any web page, returned as JSON
Diffbot returns structured JSON for a page rather than markdown or HTML, so it is a different kind of output from most scraping APIs in this directory.
Credits are priced per product, and Knowledge Graph calls cost 25 to 100 credits each, so the plan credit totals are not page counts for mixed workloads. The pricing page also shows the Free plan as both 10,000 and 9,500 credits per month.
Scraper APIs, Web Unlocker and a large proxy network for web data
Bright Data is one of the largest proxy networks and offers both pre-built scraper APIs and a general unblocking API, so it is a useful comparison for teams that need site-specific datasets as well as raw page access.
Plan prices, per-1K rates and the Scale plan fee are not shown on the pricing pages (only the included allowances and free tiers), so cost comparisons need the sales or checkout flow.
Scrape, map, crawl and search the web via one API with JS rendering.
Decodo bundles scraping, mapping, crawling and search under one key, with a free plan and per-request control over JS rendering and premium proxies.
Plan page counts are stated as approximate (e.g. '1.2M pages'), and the pages do not give per-request costs for JS rendering or premium proxies, so the true cost of those options is unclear.