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Captain Data vs Diffbot

Diffbot wins 8 of 10 decided metrics across 1 shared suites; the loser still leads where its column is highlighted. Same frozen test sets, same run; the better value in each row is highlighted.

Captain Data live
2
Real-time people and company search / enrichment API over 750M+ profiles, strong on LinkedIn resolution and employee mapping.
★ 4.6 · 80 reviewsA (excellent, 4.6 or above)
Access: MCP · API · Dataset
Diffbot
8
Web-scale Knowledge Graph built by crawling the public web: Enhance matches people and organizations, DQL searches entities including job posts, with an optional re-crawl of sources.
★ 4.9 · 29 reviewsA (excellent, 4.6 or above)
Access: MCP · CLI · API · Dataset · CSV · Batch · Webhooks · Integrations
People Datacore + suite-specific metrics
updated 2026-09-25
Metric Captain Data · not measured Diffbot · #14 of 24
Profile match rate-85.0%
Identity accuracy-100.0%
Latency p50-7,232ms
Price / matched profile-$0.022
Current employer accuracy-68.6%
Move detection-25.0%
Decoy hit rate-20.0%
Job title accuracy-49.0%
Seniority label accuracy--
Location accuracy-86.3%
Work history completeness-6.2
Education completeness-90.2%
Skills present-72.5%
Social / profile URLs-94.1%
Coverage by geo / function / seniority-60.0%
Company Datacore + suite-specific metrics
updated 2026-09-25
Metric Captain Data · #20 of 23 Diffbot · #10 of 23
Domain-to-company match rate69.4%99.0%
Company name accuracy100.0%94.9%
Latency p507,017ms1,127ms
Price / matched company$0.064$0.022
Industry accuracy72.0%83.8%
Employee count ±20%10.0%69.9%
HQ / location accuracy72.0%82.8%
Description present100.0%100.0%
Founding year accuracy32.0%73.7%
Domains / social profiles96.0%94.9%
Coverage by country / size42.9%95.0%

Questions about Captain Data vs Diffbot

Which is better, Captain Data or Diffbot?

Diffbot wins 8 of the 10 metrics decided between them, across 1 benchmark that measured both. Leaderboard ranks: Company Data: Captain Data #20 of 23, Diffbot #10 of 23.

Which is cheaper, Captain Data or Diffbot?

Measured on the list price of each provider's central self-serve pack, divided by what it actually returned: Company Data, price per matched company: Captain Data $0.064, Diffbot $0.022.

How do Captain Data and Diffbot compare in user reviews?

Captain Data holds 4.6 / 5 across 80 reviews on G2 and Capterra; Diffbot holds 4.9 / 5 across 29 reviews on G2. Ratings belong to their platforms and play no part in the benchmark grades.

How can you get data out of Captain Data and Diffbot?

Captain Data offers an MCP server, an API and dataset delivery; Diffbot offers an MCP server, a command-line tool, an API, dataset delivery, CSV export, batch endpoints, webhooks and native integrations. Both offer an MCP server, an API and dataset delivery.

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