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Diffbot vs HarvestAPI

No suite in this run measured both Diffbot and HarvestAPI; each block below shows one of them alone.

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

HarvestAPI live

Pay-as-you-go LinkedIn scraping API: live profiles, companies, jobs, posts and lead search without cookies, with optional email search on a profile. Also sold as Apify actors.

No public reviews

Access: API

People Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	Diffbot · #14 of 24	HarvestAPI · not measured
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	Diffbot · #10 of 23	HarvestAPI · not measured
Domain-to-company match rate	99.0%	-
Company name accuracy	94.9%	-
Latency p50	1,127ms	-
Price / matched company	$0.022	-
Industry accuracy	83.8%	-
Employee count ±20%	69.9%	-
HQ / location accuracy	82.8%	-
Description present	100.0%	-
Founding year accuracy	73.7%	-
Domains / social profiles	94.9%	-
Coverage by country / size	95.0%	-

Live Profile Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-26

Metric	Diffbot · not in suite	HarvestAPI · #2 of 5
Current-job accuracy	-	93.1%
Fetch success	-	99.0%
Latency p50	-	3,350ms
Cost / profile	-	$0.0037
Move detection	-	94.2%
Still at previous employer	-	2.4%
Control accuracy	-	91.8%
Work history completeness	-	9.1
Education completeness	-	99.0%

Jobs Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	Diffbot · not measured	HarvestAPI · #3 of 6
Employer coverage	-	95.0%
Postings recall	-	59.3%
Latency p50	-	4,579ms
Cost / job	-	$0.0001
Closed or unknown postings	-	10.6%
Duplicate postings	-	33.8%
Location accuracy	-	96.3%
Posted-date accuracy	-	32.8%
Description present	-	0.0%
Coverage by country	-	91.7%

Questions about Diffbot vs HarvestAPI

Which is better, Diffbot or HarvestAPI?

No benchmark in this run measured both, so they have no metric in common. Diffbot is ranked on People Data and Company Data; HarvestAPI is ranked on Live Profile Data and Jobs Data.

How do Diffbot and HarvestAPI compare in user reviews?

Diffbot holds 4.9 / 5 across 29 reviews on G2; HarvestAPI has no public reviews on G2, Capterra, TrustRadius or Trustpilot. Ratings belong to their platforms and play no part in the benchmark grades.

How can you get data out of Diffbot and HarvestAPI?

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