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Knowledge without the cutoff

Fetch knowledge, not markdown. Diffbot grounds your AI on verified facts from the public web.

Prompt: Research "Prometheus" and draft a sales brief.

  1. The transcript appears here — press RUN AGENT.

Run the agent to watch the suite work — each step is a real Diffbot API call you can inspect.

Introducing web search that runs on your hardware

The dot com days are over, but web search is still monetized on ads and scraped for API access. At Diffbot, we have a better solution — Web search you own. No ads. No telemetry. It turns out, you don't need all 150TB of the web to power a competent purpose-built local search engine. We've packaged it down to just 4TB of essential news, docs, homepages, recipes, and whatever else you need.

Take an entire web index with you on a boat trip and stay online while offline.

Diffbot Web Search API currently returns responses in <300ms P90 latency while matching NDCG of equivalent "fast" modes on other web search providers. Should you choose to self-host, expect a 20-100ms latency improvement depending on hardware and shard optimizations.

P90 query latencyms · lower is better
Diffbot240
Tavily998
Exa1,231
Firecrawl1,335
Accuracy% · higher is better
Diffbot0.65
Exa0.8

Build with knowledge

Browse the rest of the tools we built to structure the world’s knowledge.

  • Extract a page

    Classify and extract structured, opinionated JSON from a single URL without hallucinations. (Surprise! It's not an LLM)

  • Crawl every page

    Walk an entire site from a single seed URL and extract thousands of pages into a single structured dataset.

  • Query the Knowledge Graph

    Run structured queries against the world's largest Knowledge Graph of the public web for companies, people, news, and more.

  • Search the web

    Ultra-low latency web search without ads or telemetry. Built for self-hosting and API access.