Agentic Document Extraction Pricing: LlamaParse, Reducto and Landing AI Per 1,000 Pages

Frequently asked questions

What is agentic document extraction?

Agentic document extraction runs a large language model over each page instead of a fixed OCR pipeline, so it reads layout, tables and nested fields, returns clean markdown or a schema you defined, and can self-correct. The three products people mean by the term are LlamaParse, Reducto and Landing AI Agentic Document Extraction. The reasoning pass is why it costs 8 to 40 times more than plain cloud OCR.

How much does agentic document extraction cost per 1,000 pages?

It ranges from about $12.50 to $75 per 1,000 pages for true agentic parsing, against $1.50 for legacy cloud OCR. LlamaParse Agentic is $12.50 per 1,000 pages, Reducto agentic parse is $30 to $60, and Landing AI DPT-2 parse is $30. Structured extraction pushes higher: LlamaParse tops out at $75 per 1,000 pages and Reducto Deep Extract at $60 plus a per-field charge.

Which agentic document extractor is cheapest?

For a plain parse, Reducto standard at $15 per 1,000 pages and Landing AI DPT-2 mini at $15 are the cheapest agentic-platform parse rates, and LlamaParse Fast is $1.25 but returns spatial text only with no markdown. For true agentic reasoning, LlamaParse Agentic at $12.50 per 1,000 pages is the cheapest, roughly half of Reducto or Landing AI. There is no single winner because each vendor prices its tiers differently.

Is agentic document extraction worth it over regular OCR?

It is worth the premium when documents have complex layouts, dense tables, or nested fields that break traditional OCR, and when you want markdown or a defined schema back in one call. For clean, printed, single-column pages where you only need the raw text, Read-class cloud OCR at $1.50 per 1,000 pages does the same job for a fraction of the price. Match the tool to the document, not to the hype.

How do LlamaParse credits convert to dollars?

LlamaParse sells credits at 1,000 credits for $1.25, so each credit is $0.00125. A parse tier that costs 10 credits per page is therefore $0.0125 per page, or $12.50 per 1,000 pages. Structured extraction stacks an extract tier on top of a parse tier, from 6 credits ($7.50 per 1,000 pages) up to 60 credits ($75 per 1,000 pages). New accounts get 10,000 free credits every month.

How much does Landing AI Agentic Document Extraction cost?

Landing AI ADE sells credits at $0.01 each. A DPT-2 parse is 3 credits per page, which is $0.03 per page or $30 per 1,000 pages, and the lighter DPT-2 mini is 1.5 credits, or $15 per 1,000 pages. The "credits equal pages times 0.5" figure that circulates online is the Classify endpoint, not parse, and works out to only $5 per 1,000 pages. Zero data retention adds one credit per page.

How much does Reducto cost per page?

Reducto sells credits at $0.015 each after a one-time 15,000 free credits. A standard parse is 1 credit per page, or $15 per 1,000 pages, complex parse is 2 credits ($30), and agentic parse runs 2 to 4 credits ($30 to $60 per 1,000 pages). Standard extraction is 2 credits ($30), and Deep Extract is 4 credits per page plus 0.1 credit per field with a 30-credit minimum per document. The batch queue takes 20 percent off parse.

Why is agentic document extraction so much more expensive than OCR?

Because you are paying for a language-model reasoning pass over every page, not just character recognition. Traditional OCR maps pixels to characters with a fixed model, which is why Textract, Azure Document Intelligence and Google Document AI all sell it at $1.50 per 1,000 pages. Agentic tools run an LLM that interprets structure, rebuilds tables, and returns markdown or a schema, and that compute is 8 to 40 times the cost.

Do these tools charge by the page or by the character?

It is split. LlamaParse charges a flat credit rate per page for both parsing and extraction, so its per-1,000-pages number is a real quote. Landing AI ADE and Reducto Deep Extract bill extraction by the character, using input characters divided by 5,000 plus output characters divided by 1,000, so a data-dense page costs several times what a sparse one does. For those two, any per-1,000-pages figure is an average, not a fixed price.

Is there a free tier for agentic document extraction?

All three offer free credits, but only one renews. LlamaParse gives 10,000 free credits every single month, enough for thousands of Fast-parsed pages on a standing basis. Landing AI includes 1,000 free credits that expire 90 days after signup, and Reducto includes 15,000 free credits as a one-time allowance. For a small, steady workload, LlamaParse is effectively free where the others are not.

How does agentic extraction pricing compare to Textract, Azure and Google?

It is far more expensive per page. AWS Textract Detect Document Text, Azure AI Document Intelligence Read and Google Document AI Enterprise OCR all charge $1.50 per 1,000 pages for plain text. The cheapest true agentic parse, LlamaParse Agentic, is $12.50, and Landing AI and Reducto agentic modes reach $30 to $60. The trade is accuracy on hard layouts and structured output for a large jump in unit cost.

Can I mix agentic extraction with cheaper OCR?

Yes, and it is usually the right call at volume. Route clean, simple pages through Read-class OCR at $1.50 per 1,000 pages and reserve agentic extraction for the documents that actually need it, such as dense financial tables or multi-column forms. A managed platform like DocuOCR does this routing for you and bills per page with the review workflow included, at roughly $14 to $20 per 1,000 pages.