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Crunchbase vs Diffbot

Dead heat on metrics won: pick on the dimension you buy. Same frozen test sets, same run; the better value in each row is highlighted.

Crunchbase

Private-company database of firmographics, funding rounds, investors, key people and predictions, licensed through API v4, MCP and bulk exports.

★ 4.4 · 413 reviewsB

Access: MCP · API · Dataset · CSV · Integrations

Diffbot

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

Access: MCP · CLI · API · Dataset · CSV · Batch · Webhooks · Integrations

People Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	Crunchbase · 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	Crunchbase · #4 of 23	Diffbot · #10 of 23
Domain-to-company match rate	100.0%	99.0%
Company name accuracy	96.0%	94.9%
Latency p50	-	1,127ms
Price / matched company	-	$0.022
Industry accuracy	61.0%	83.8%
Employee count ±20%	0.0%	69.9%
HQ / location accuracy	82.0%	82.8%
Description present	100.0%	100.0%
Founding year accuracy	75.0%	73.7%
Domains / social profiles	0.0%	94.9%
Coverage by country / size	100.0%	95.0%

Questions about Crunchbase vs Diffbot

Which is better, Crunchbase or Diffbot?

They win the same number of metrics, 4 each, on the 1 benchmark that measured both: pick on the data you buy. Leaderboard ranks: Company Data: Crunchbase #4 of 23, Diffbot #10 of 23.

How do Crunchbase and Diffbot compare in user reviews?

Crunchbase holds 4.4 / 5 across 413 reviews on G2 and Product Hunt; 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 Crunchbase and Diffbot?

Crunchbase offers an MCP server, an API, dataset delivery, CSV export and native integrations; 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, dataset delivery, CSV export and native integrations.