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Document AI & OCR APIs pricing
Document AI & OCR APIs turn PDFs, scans, and images into structured data, plain text, tables, key-value pairs, and full schema extraction. The category splits into hyperscaler platforms (AWS, Google, Azure) that bundle OCR into broad cloud suites with deep SDK coverage and hard SLAs, and a wave of AI-native challengers (Reducto, Unstructured, Mindee, Nanonets) built for LLM/RAG pipelines and agentic extraction. Compare on documentation/DX quality, reliability and SLA maturity, breadth of official SDKs and ecosystem integrations, and how fast a developer or agent can self-serve a working key. Note that several "OCR" tools differ sharply on accessibility: hyperscalers and the newer API-first startups offer instant self-serve keys with public pricing, while some incumbents remain sales-gated.
| API | Billed by | Free tier | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|
 AWS Textract Document AI & OCR APIs | Per 1k pages | Free tier or trial | Jun 27, 2026 |
 Google Document AI Document AI & OCR APIs | Per 1k pages | Free tier or trial | Jun 27, 2026 |
 Azure AI Document Intelligence Document AI & OCR APIs | Per 1k pages | Free tier or trial | Jun 27, 2026 |
 Mindee Document AI & OCR APIs | Credit subscription tiers | Free tier or trial | Jun 27, 2026 |
 Unstructured Document AI & OCR APIs | Per page (~$0.03) | Free tier or trial | Jun 27, 2026 |
 Nanonets Document AI & OCR APIs | Per-run blocks (~$0.30/page) | Free tier or trial | Jun 27, 2026 |
 Reducto Document AI & OCR APIs | Credit-based (~$0.015/page) | Free tier or trial | Jun 27, 2026 |