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Diffbot vs Surfe

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.

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

Surfe

Sales intelligence platform cascading emails and mobiles across 15+ providers, with people and company search, CRM sync, REST API and a native MCP server.

★ 4.4 · 69 reviewsB

Access: MCP · API · Batch · Webhooks · Integrations

Email Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	Diffbot · not in suite	Surfe · #1 of 29
Match rate	-	90.0%
Valid email rate	-	66.7%
Latency p50	-	-
Cost / valid email	-	-
Invalid rate	-	1.9%
Catch-all share	-	29.6%
Business email	-	100.0%
Right-person rate	-	98.1%
Decoy hit rate	-	-
Catch-all detection	-	-
Confidence-score quality	-	-
Geographic coverage	-	10

People Datacore + suite-specific metrics

updated 2026-09-25

Metric	Diffbot · #14 of 24	Surfe · 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	Surfe · #6 of 23
Domain-to-company match rate	99.0%	100.0%
Company name accuracy	94.9%	96.0%
Latency p50	1,127ms	-
Price / matched company	$0.022	-
Industry accuracy	83.8%	47.0%
Employee count ±20%	69.9%	18.9%
HQ / location accuracy	82.8%	66.0%
Description present	100.0%	100.0%
Founding year accuracy	73.7%	17.0%
Domains / social profiles	94.9%	100.0%
Coverage by country / size	95.0%	100.0%

Questions about Diffbot vs Surfe

Which is better, Diffbot or Surfe?

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: Diffbot #10 of 23, Surfe #6 of 23.

How do Diffbot and Surfe compare in user reviews?

Diffbot holds 4.9 / 5 across 29 reviews on G2; Surfe holds 4.4 / 5 across 69 reviews on Chrome Web Store, Product Hunt and Trustpilot. Ratings belong to their platforms and play no part in the benchmark grades.

How can you get data out of Diffbot and Surfe?

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