Is LLM OCR Cheaper Than Traditional OCR? The Real Math
At the very bottom of the model range, yes. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and GPT-5.4-nano genuinely undercut the $1.50 per 1,000 pages cloud OCR rate. Step up one tier and it inverts hard.
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At the very bottom of the model range, yes. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and GPT-5.4-nano genuinely undercut the $1.50 per 1,000 pages cloud OCR rate. Step up one tier and it inverts hard.
Read articleAnthropic sells tokens, not pages, so there is no Claude OCR rate to look up. Converted from the official token prices and visual-token rules: about $5.31 per 1,000 pages on Haiku 4.5, $19.39 on Sonnet 5 and $32.32 on Opus 4.8.
Read articleUnstructured charges $0.03 per page, which is $30 per 1,000 pages, for every processing strategy. Here is how the free tier, the $3,000 spend cap and the page-counting rules actually work.
Read articleExtend prices document processing in credits at $0.0125 each. Here is what parse, extract, classify and split really cost per 1,000 pages, plus the auto-parse charge most people miss.
Read articleAgentic document extraction runs an LLM reasoning pass over each page for clean markdown. How it differs from OCR, the players, and what it costs.
Read articleLlamaParse runs $1.25 to $75 per 1,000 pages, billed at 1,000 credits = $1.25. Every tier in dollars, how the credit math works, and how it compares.
Read articleLanding AI runs $5 to $30 per 1,000 pages, billed at $0.01 per credit. Every operation in dollars, plus the v2 price cut, the classify trap, and the 90-day free-credit expiry.
Read articleAgentic document extraction costs 8 to 40 times more than cloud OCR because you pay for an LLM reasoning pass on every page. Here is exactly what drives the price, and when it is worth it.
Read articleReducto runs $15 to $60 per 1,000 pages, billed at $0.015 per credit. Every operation in dollars, plus the Deep Extract minimum and the extract double-charge that inflate the real bill.
Read articleExtraction gets clean text and fields out of a PDF, but that is only step one. Here is how to turn the documents you process into knowledge you can actually study and test yourself on.
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