The short answer
Azure AI Document Intelligence is billed per 1k pages. It has a free tier: 500 pages/mo (F0, first 2 pages per request). The paid plans we list start at $1.50 / 1,000 pages (Read (OCR)).
Plans and prices
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Free (F0) | $0 | 500 pages/month; only the first 2 pages of any analyze request processed; no SLA. |
| Read (OCR) | $1.50 / 1,000 pages | Text + handwriting OCR; drops to ~$0.60 / 1,000 pages beyond 1M pages. |
| Layout | $10 / 1,000 pages | Text, tables, selection marks, titles, headings, and document structure. |
| Prebuilt models | $10 / 1,000 pages | Invoice, receipt, ID, W-2, health insurance card, business card, etc. |
| Custom extraction | $30 / 1,000 pages | Models trained on your own documents; commitment tiers lower the per-page rate (~$27/$24/$21). |
How Azure AI Document Intelligence bills you
The pricing model is per 1k pages. Formerly Form Recognizer; strong prebuilt and custom models with a genuinely free F0 tier and first-class .NET/Java/JS/Python SDKs. Best suited to: prebuilt + custom models on azure.
What to watch for on the bill
- Costs scale steeply at volume, Layout/prebuilt at $10 and custom at $30 per 1,000 pages add up fast
- Availability SLA only (99.9%); no SLA on latency, and none on the free tier
The pricing page we read
Source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/document-intelligence/. Prices change, so confirm there before you commit.
Compare Azure AI Document Intelligence with alternatives
- AWS Textract vs Azure AI Document Intelligence pricing
- Google Document AI vs Azure AI Document Intelligence pricing
- Azure AI Document Intelligence vs Mindee pricing
Other document ai & ocr apis: AWS Textract, Google Document AI, Mindee, Unstructured, Nanonets.
Looking at quality rather than price? See the Azure AI Document Intelligence score on APIbenchmarks. Full entry: Azure AI Document Intelligence pricing.