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light estimateLast updated 2026-08-20

Amazon Web Services vs LlamaIndex

AWS Textract (DetectDocumentText) vs LlamaParse for ocr & document extraction. Computed from public benchmarks with dated sources; updated 2026-08-20.

Head to head
AWS Textract (DetectDocumentText) compared with LlamaParse per decision axis
AxisAWS Textract (DetectDocumentText)LlamaParseEdge
Price$1.5 per 1000 pages$3.75 per 1000 pages*—
Score———
Max pages3000——
tables✓✓—
handwriting✓✓—
JSON✓✓—

* token-/credit-priced — the headline understates real per-unit cost, so no price edge is awarded.

Strengths & caveats
Amazon Web ServicesBattle-tested at enterprise scale; basic OCR $1.50/1000 dropping to $0.60 above 1M pages, async handles up to 3000-page/500MB PDFs and TIFFs, strong forms/tables/queries and printed+handwritten English, with Layout free when used alongside Tables. No public OmniDocBench score (null); language coverage limited to six Latin-script languages (English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish) with handwriting and Queries English-only and no vertical-text support; tables +$15 and forms +$50 per 1000 (falling to $10 and $40 above 1M) make real-world cost far above the headline, and sync calls cap at 1 page / 10MB.LlamaIndexFlexible parse modes tuned for RAG at a confirmed $1.25 per 1000 credits: Fast 1 credit (~$1.25/1000 pages), Cost-effective 3 credits (~$3.75/1000), Agentic 10 credits (~$12.50/1000) and Agentic Plus 45 credits (~$56.25/1000); strong markdown/JSON, tables and multimodal, 10K free monthly credits and free re-parses of the same file within a 48-hour cache window. Per-page cost swings 1x-45x by mode, so the $3.75/1000 figure (Cost-effective) is only one tier — flagged vergelijkbaar=false; layout extraction adds +3 credits per page on top. No published OmniDocBench score (null).
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