Best OCR API for scanned invoices and receipts
Default pickAzure Document Intelligence (Read)
For scanned invoices and receipts (noisy layouts, tables, key-value fields) Azure Document Intelligence is the strongest default: mature prebuilt invoice and receipt models with JSON output, from $1.50 per 1000 pages for basic Read OCR. Google Document AI and AWS Textract sit at the same $1.50 entry price with strong form and table parsing; Mistral OCR 4 is the markdown-pipeline alternative with HTML-table output and confidence scores. A light estimate from public benchmarks and pricing, August 2026.
DefaultAzure Document Intelligence (Read)prijsGoogle Document AI (Enterprise Document OCR)tabel_layoutMistral OCR 4
Provider offerings
| Offering | Price ($/1000 pages) | Score | Max pages | Capabilities |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral OCR 4Mistral AI | 4 | 85.66 | 1000 | tableshandwritingJSON |
| Google Document AI (Enterprise Document OCR)Google Cloud | 1.5 | — | 200 | tableshandwritingJSON |
| AWS Textract (DetectDocumentText)Amazon Web Services | 1.5 | — | 3000 | tableshandwritingJSON |
| Azure Document Intelligence (Read)Microsoft Azure | 1.5 | — | 2000 | tableshandwritingJSON |
| ReductoReducto | —* | — | — | tableshandwritingJSON |
| LlamaParseLlamaIndex (LlamaCloud) | 3.75* | — | — | tableshandwritingJSON |
| GLM-OCRZ.ai (Zhipu AI) | —* | 95.22 | 100 | tableshandwritingJSON |
* token-/credit-priced — the headline understates real per-unit cost, so it is excluded from the cheapest ranking.
Sources
- Mistral Pricing2026-08-20
- Mistral API Pricing (OCR tiers)2026-08-20
- Mistral OCR 4 — SOTA OCR for Document Intelligence2026-08-20
- Mistral OCR 4.1 model card2026-08-20
- CodeSOTA — OmniDocBench Leaderboard2026-08-20
- OmniDocBench (CVPR 2025) — opendatalab2026-08-20
- Google Cloud Document AI Pricing2026-06-22
- AWS Textract Pricing2026-08-20
- AWS Textract — Set Quotas2026-08-20
- Azure Document Intelligence Pricing2026-06-22
- Reducto Pricing2026-08-20
- LlamaParse / LlamaIndex Pricing2026-08-20
- LlamaParse Pricing — tiers & credits2026-08-20
- GLM-OCR — Z.AI Developer Docs2026-08-20