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light estimateLast updated 2026-08-20

Amazon Web Services vs Microsoft Azure

AWS Textract (DetectDocumentText) vs Azure Document Intelligence (Read) for ocr & document extraction. Max pages: 3000 vs 2000 — edge Amazon Web Services Computed from public benchmarks with dated sources; updated 2026-08-20.

Head to head
AWS Textract (DetectDocumentText) compared with Azure Document Intelligence (Read) per decision axis
AxisAWS Textract (DetectDocumentText)Azure Document Intelligence (Read)Edge
Price$1.5 per 1000 pages$1.5 per 1000 pages—
Score———
Max pages30002000Amazon Web Services
tables✓✓—
handwriting✓✓—
JSON✓✓—
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.Microsoft AzureBroadest language coverage for print/handwriting, Read OCR $1.50/1000 (->$0.60 above 1M), strong Layout API for tables/structure, mature prebuilt models (invoice, receipt, ID) and JSON output. No public OmniDocBench score (null); Layout/prebuilt $10/1000 and Custom Extraction $30/1000 plus $6/1000 add-ons (formula, high-res) push real cost up well beyond Read pricing.
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