LlamaParse
the cheapest hosted parsing here at basic tier, with the accurate mode priced nowhere.
unbeatable on the entry rate and a generous free tier — and you cannot find out what the mode you'll actually need costs.
$1.25 per thousand pages for basic parsing is the lowest hosted rate in this ranking, and 10,000 free credits a month is a real allowance rather than a trial. llamaindex states it does not charge differently for scanned pages versus text pages, which is more than most vendors will commit to.
the tiering is where visibility stops. better table, chart and image extraction requires the advanced or agentic modes, and the credits-per-page multiplier for those is not published anywhere. since those are the modes anyone with complex documents will end up using, the headline rate describes the case you least need help with.
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
- $1.25 / 1,000 pages
- website
- llamaindex.ai
unbeatable on the entry rate and a generous free tier — and you cannot find out what the mode you'll actually need costs.
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.