Chunkr
cheapest at volume, dual-licensed for self-hosting — and the free build ships deliberately weaker models.
the cheapest hosted rate at scale and a genuine open-source path — with the catch that the open version is not the same product.
at $5 per thousand pages on the growth plan, chunkr is the cheapest venture-backed hosted option in this ranking, with a segmentation model that identifies eleven or more element types per page including titles, tables, formulas and captions.
the self-hosting story needs reading carefully. the repository is dual-licensed: agpl-3.0 for open use, or a paid commercial licence that removes the copyleft obligation. but chunkr's own docs state the self-hosted build uses weaker 'community' ocr and segmentation models than the proprietary ones behind the cloud api. so the free path exists and does not give you the product you evaluated.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- document extraction apis
- pricing
- $5 / 1,000 pages
- website
- chunkr.ai
the cheapest hosted rate at scale and a genuine open-source path — with the catch that the open version is not the same product.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.