Diffbot Pricing Calculator (2026): Monthly Credit Plans vs Pay per Page
Diffbot's paid plans start at a monthly fee that includes a pool of credits, and extracting a page costs 1 credit (2 through its datacenter proxy). Pick your extraction type and monthly volume to see your cost on switch402 at a flat $0.008 per page, next to the plan's monthly minimum and what its unused credits would cost you.
On switch402 you pay only for the pages you actually scrape: 750 x $0.008 = $6.00 a month, with no subscription minimum and no unused credits.
The Diffbot plan shown is the lowest-priced plan that covers this volume for this request type. Its minimum is billed whatever you use; unused credits are valued at the plan price per included credit.
| Diffbot plan | Price | Included credits |
|---|---|---|
| Startup | $299.00/mo | 250,000 |
| Plus | $899.00/mo | 1,000,000 |
Usage beyond the monthly credits is billed pro rata at the plan rate ($0.001 per credit on Startup, $0.0009 on Plus), per Diffbot's pricing page. Source: diffbot.com/pricing, checked Oct 29, 2026. Monthly billing prices. switch402: $0.008 USDC on Base per successful call, from its live API quote.
- No signup or API key
Your agent pays per call over x402.
- No monthly commitment
Nothing to cancel, no unused credits.
- Pay only for successful calls
Charged only after a provider returns content; errors are never charged.
- Automatic failover
If a provider fails, the call goes to the next healthy one.
If every provider fails you get a 502 and are not charged.
Migrate in a few lines
Live: POST https://api.switch402.com/v1/scrape with {"url": "..."} returns the page as markdown. $0.008 USDC on Base per call over x402, charged only on success.
# Unpaid request: returns HTTP 402 with the x402 payment requirements
curl -i -X POST https://api.switch402.com/v1/scrape \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
-H 'user-agent: my-agent/1.0' \
-d '{"url":"https://example.com"}'
# Pay $0.008 USDC on Base with any x402 client and retry (see the other tabs).FAQ
- Is switch402 live?
- Yes. POST https://api.switch402.com/v1/scrape with {"url": "..."} returns the page as markdown for $0.008 USDC on Base per call, paid over x402 and charged only on success.
- Where do the Diffbot numbers come from?
- Diffbot's public pricing page (diffbot.com/pricing), checked Oct 29, 2026: Startup $299 a month for 250,000 credits (overage $0.001 per credit), Plus $899 a month for 1,000,000 credits (overage $0.0009 per credit), Free $0 for 10,000 credits, and 1 credit per extracted page or 2 via datacenter proxy.
- What do I pay on switch402 at my volume?
- Pages actually scraped x $0.008, charged only on success, so your cost per page actually used is always $0.008 and a month with no calls costs $0. A paid Diffbot plan bills its monthly price whatever you use; the calculator shows the plan minimum and what the unused credits cost you at your volume. switch402 needs no plan, account or key.
- Do Diffbot and switch402 return the same thing?
- No. Diffbot Extract returns structured fields for a page and Diffbot also sells Knowledge Graph and NLP. switch402 returns a public page as markdown, alongside its other pay-per-call tools (screenshots, web search, site maps, page metadata and PDF to text); it has no knowledge graph or NLP. Compare only if page-to-text is what you need.