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GradioMost similar to Horseman in what it does, its category and its price.
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DatumboxHas a free plan, rated 3.0 out of 5. Horseman has none.
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DiffbotRated 3.5 out of 5 in our review, against 3.2 for Horseman.
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At a glance
Green means better than Horseman, red means worse. Prices are starting prices per month.
| Tool | Our rating | Starts at | Free plan | Best for | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 HorsemanBaseline | 3.2 | $5/mo | No | A configurable web crawler with 120+ built-in JavaScript snippets - describe what data you want, and GPT-3.5 writes the extraction snippet for you. | |
| Gradio | 3.8+0.6 | Free | YesHorseman has none | Pip install gradio, write a few lines of Python, get a shareable web UI for your ML model in minutes - no JavaScript, no CSS, deploy free to Hugging Face Spaces. | vs Horseman |
| Diffbot | 3.5+0.3 | Not listed | No | Computer vision renders and classifies any webpage into clean structured data in under 300ms, then feeds it into a Knowledge Graph spanning billions of people, organizations, and products. | vs Horseman |
| Datumbox | 3.0−0.2 | Free | YesHorseman has none | Open-source Java machine learning framework and REST API for sentiment analysis, topic classification and text extraction. | vs Horseman |
The alternatives in detail
In order of how closely each one matches Horseman.
Gradio
3.8Free
vs Horseman+0.6Free plan
Pip install gradio, write a few lines of Python, get a shareable web UI for your ML model in minutes - no JavaScript, no CSS, deploy free to Hugging Face Spaces.
- Build ML model web UIs in Python, no frontend code needed
- 40+ input/output components across diverse data types
- Instant shareable demo links
Massive, proven adoption across the ML research and engineering community
Requires basic Python programming knowledge
Diffbot
3.5Not listed
vs Horseman+0.3
Computer vision renders and classifies any webpage into clean structured data in under 300ms, then feeds it into a Knowledge Graph spanning billions of people, organizations, and products.
- Computer vision renders and classifies webpages into structured data
- NLP-based entity extraction and relationship mapping
- Knowledge Graph spanning billions of public web entities
Genuinely fast (sub-300ms) structured extraction at real scale
No published pricing - a sales-driven process
Datumbox
3.0Free
vs Horseman−0.2Free plan
Open-source Java machine learning framework and REST API for sentiment analysis, topic classification and text extraction.
- REST API for sentiment analysis and topic classification
- Language detection, subjectivity analysis and spam detection
- Keyword and text extraction, and reading assessment
Open-source framework under a permissive licence
The framework's last commit was in November 2023 and the homepage shows no recent activity
FAQ
Questions people ask
Is Horseman free?
Horseman does not list a free plan. Paid plans start from $5/mo.
What is the best free alternative to Horseman?
Gradio is the highest-rated alternative here with a free plan (3.8 out of 5). Other free options: Datumbox.
How did you pick these alternatives?
We match tools on what they do, their category and their price, using the details in our directory. Ratings come from our reviews and reader reviews.