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light estimateLast updated 2026-08-20

Mistral AI vs LlamaIndex

Mistral OCR 4 vs LlamaParse for ocr & document extraction. Computed from public benchmarks with dated sources; updated 2026-08-20.

Head to head
Mistral OCR 4 compared with LlamaParse per decision axis
AxisMistral OCR 4LlamaParseEdge
Price$4 per 1000 pages$3.75 per 1000 pages*—
Score85.66——
Max pages1000——
tables✓✓—
handwriting✓✓—
JSON✓✓—

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

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.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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