The short answer
Google Document AI is billed per 1k pages. It has a free tier: $300 GCP credit (90 days). The paid plans we list start at $1.50 / 1,000 pages (Enterprise Document OCR).
Plans and prices
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise Document OCR | $1.50 / 1,000 pages | Drops to $0.60 / 1,000 pages above 5M pages/month; OCR add-ons $6 / 1,000 pages. |
| Custom Extractor / Form Parser | $30 / 1,000 pages | Drops to $20 / 1,000 pages above 1M pages/month. Gen-AI powered custom extraction. |
| Layout Parser | $10 / 1,000 pages | Flat rate, no volume discount; used for chunking/RAG layout parsing. |
| Specialized parsers (Invoice / Expense / Utility) | $0.10 / 10 pages | Pretrained domain processors billed per 10-page document. |
| ID & document parsers (W-2, Pay Slip, Passport, Driver License) | $0.10–$0.75 / document | e.g. US Passport/Driver License $0.10, W-2 & Pay Slip $0.30, Bank Statement $0.75 per classified doc. |
| Custom processor hosting | $0.05 / hour per deployed version | ~$438/year per continuously deployed processor version; no free monthly tier. |
How Google Document AI bills you
The pricing model is per 1k pages. Processor-based platform spanning OCR, layout parsing, prebuilt invoice/receipt models, and custom extraction, with $300 GCP trial credit. Best suited to: processor-driven document understanding.
What to watch for on the bill
- Custom Extractor / Form Parser is expensive at $30 per 1,000 pages
- Real total cost often 3–5x the headline API price once GCP setup, storage, automation, and 40–80+ hrs integration are included
The pricing page we read
Source: https://cloud.google.com/document-ai/pricing. Prices change, so confirm there before you commit.
Compare Google Document AI with alternatives
- AWS Textract vs Google Document AI pricing
- Google Document AI vs Azure AI Document Intelligence pricing
- Google Document AI vs Mindee pricing
Other document ai & ocr apis: AWS Textract, Azure AI Document Intelligence, Mindee, Unstructured, Nanonets.
Looking at quality rather than price? See the Google Document AI score on APIbenchmarks. Full entry: Google Document AI pricing.