Cheapest OCR API
On the basic OCR/text tier, Google Document AI, AWS Textract and Azure Document Intelligence are the cheapest comparable options at about $1.50 per 1000 pages, just below Mistral OCR ($2). Credit-priced Reducto and mode-priced LlamaParse are excluded as non-comparable. Note that table, form and layout extraction cost five to twenty-five times more, so the basic rate understates real cost. A light estimate, June 2026.
DefaultGoogle Document AI (Enterprise Document OCR)prijsGoogle Document AI (Enterprise Document OCR)
Provider offerings
| Offering | Price ($/1000 pages) | Score | Max pages | Capabilities |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral OCR 3Mistral AI | 2 | 79.75 | 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* | — | — | tableshandwritingJSON |
* token-/credit-priced — the headline understates real per-unit cost, so it is excluded from the cheapest ranking.
Sources
- Mistral Pricing2026-06-22
- Introducing Mistral OCR 32026-06-22
- CodeSOTA — OmniDocBench Leaderboard2026-06-22
- OmniDocBench (CVPR 2025) — opendatalab2026-06-22
- Google Cloud Document AI Pricing2026-06-22
- AWS Textract Pricing2026-06-22
- Azure Document Intelligence Pricing2026-06-22
- Reducto Pricing2026-06-22
- LlamaParse / LlamaIndex Pricing2026-06-22