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Mistral AI vs Amazon Web Services

Mistral OCR 4 vs AWS Textract (DetectDocumentText) for ocr & document extraction. Price: $4 per 1000 pages vs $1.5 per 1000 pages — edge Amazon Web Services Max pages: 1000 vs 3000 — edge Amazon Web Services Computed from public benchmarks with dated sources; updated 2026-08-20.

Head to head
Mistral OCR 4 compared with AWS Textract (DetectDocumentText) per decision axis
AxisMistral OCR 4AWS Textract (DetectDocumentText)Edge
Price$4 per 1000 pages$1.5 per 1000 pagesAmazon Web Services
Score85.66——
Max pages10003000Amazon Web Services
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Strengths & caveats
Mistral AIDedicated single-model OCR API (OCR 4, released 23 June 2026) with markdown plus HTML-table output, paragraph-level bounding boxes, block classification and inline confidence scores, 170 languages across 10 language groups, and a 50% batch discount ($2/1000). OCR 4.1 (public preview since 16 July 2026) adds structural block labels and block-level confidence; annotated Document AI extraction is $5/1000 pages. The OCR 4 release doubled the price from $2 to $4 per 1000 pages, making it the most expensive comparable per-page option here — the hyperscalers' basic OCR tier is $1.50/1000. The 85.66 OmniDocBench composite is the independent v1.6 leaderboard's untagged 'Mistral OCR' entry (April 2026), so it predates OCR 4; Mistral self-reports 93.07 on OmniDocBench, 85.20 on OlmOCRBench and a 72% average human-preference win rate for OCR 4, all Tier 3. The 1000-page async cap is carried over from the June 2026 check and could not be re-verified.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.
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