How Much Does Extend (extend.ai) Cost? 2026 Pricing Breakdown

Last updated July 2026.

Extend (extend.ai) costs $0.0125 per credit on Pay As You Go, and every operation spends a fixed number of credits per page. In Performance mode a parse is 2 credits ($25 per 1,000 pages) and a structured extraction is 5 credits ($62.50) once you count the parse that runs automatically before it. Classification is 3 credits ($37.50) and splitting is 4 credits ($50). Light mode swaps in lighter models and cuts each operation by about four times, so extraction drops to roughly $15 per 1,000 pages. Every account starts with 10,000 free credits, and the Scale plan is $500 a month for 50,000 credits at $0.01 each.

Extend is one of the 2026 wave of agentic document platforms built for AI agents rather than for a human clicking through a dashboard. Like Reducto, LlamaParse and Landing AI, it prices in credits instead of dollars per page, which makes it hard to compare against cloud OCR or against a finished product. This breakdown converts every operation to dollars and flags the one charge that quietly doubles most bills.

How much does Extend cost per page?

At $0.0125 per credit, multiply the credits an operation spends by $0.0125 for the per-page price, or by $12.50 for the price per 1,000 pages. In Performance mode a parse is 2 credits, so $0.025 a page or $25 per 1,000. A structured extraction is 3 credits for the extract plus 2 credits for the automatic parse, which is 5 credits, or $0.0625 a page and $62.50 per 1,000. Classification is 1 credit plus the 2-credit parse ($37.50 per 1,000), and splitting is 2 plus 2 ($50). Edit Filling is 1 credit with no auto-parse, so $12.50 per 1,000 pages.

How do Extend credits work?

You buy credits and each API call spends a set number based on the operation, the page count and the mode you pick. Pay As You Go is $0.0125 per credit with no monthly minimum. The Scale plan is $500 a month, includes 50,000 credits, and drops the overage rate to $0.01 per credit, a 20 percent discount. Enterprise pricing is custom with a lower per-credit rate. New accounts get 10,000 free credits to start, which covers about 2,000 pages of Performance extraction or 5,000 pages of plain parsing before you pay.

Why does an Extend extraction cost 5 credits when the docs say 3?

This is the charge most people miss. Extend parses a document automatically before it extracts, classifies or splits, and it bills both operations. So the 3-credit extraction is really 3 plus 2 parse credits, or 5 credits per page, which is $62.50 per 1,000 pages rather than the $37.50 the 3-credit figure implies. The same stacking applies to classification (1 plus 2 = 3 credits) and splitting (2 plus 2 = 4). It mirrors the double-charge you get in Reducto if you pass a raw file straight to its extract endpoint. The way to avoid paying the parse twice is to reuse a parse result you have already generated rather than re-parsing on every call.

What is the difference between Performance and Light mode?

Mode is a speed-versus-cost switch you set per request, and it is the single biggest lever on your bill. Performance mode uses heavier models: parse 2 credits, extract 3, classify 1, split 2. Light mode uses lighter models at roughly a quarter of the cost: parse 0.5 credits, extract 0.7, classify 0.3, split 0.5. A Performance-mode extraction with its auto-parse is 5 credits ($62.50 per 1,000 pages); the same job in Light mode is about 1.2 credits ($15). Clean, born-digital documents rarely need the heavy model, so routing simple files to Light mode and reserving Performance for degraded scans is the obvious saving.

How much do the review and correction agents add?

Extend offers optional agents that raise accuracy and add credits. The Extraction Review Agent adds 1 credit per page ($12.50 per 1,000), and Agentic Text Correction and Agentic Table Correction each add 1 credit as well. Turn all three on with a Performance extraction and you reach 8 credits per page, which is $100 per 1,000 pages. That is the true ceiling, roughly double the already-high base extraction rate, and it is worth modeling before you enable everything by default. A large-array extraction option and priority parsing each apply a 2x multiplier to their respective credit costs, so read the flags you set carefully.

Is Extend cheaper than Reducto, LlamaParse or Landing AI?

Not on a like-for-like extraction in Performance mode. Extend Performance extraction is $62.50 per 1,000 pages against Reducto standard extract at $30, Landing AI DPT-2 parse at $30, and LlamaParse structured extract from $7.50. In Light mode Extend extraction at about $15 is competitive, and a plain Extend parse at $25 sits between LlamaParse Agentic ($12.50) and Landing AI DPT-2 ($30). The honest read is that Extend does not compete on the lowest per-page rate. It positions itself as document infrastructure for autonomous agents, so you are paying for the orchestration layer, not a cheaper parse. For the full side by side, see the Extend pricing reference and the agentic document extraction pricing comparison.

When does Extend make sense?

Extend fits teams building agentic pipelines that need to parse, classify, split and extract a defined schema in one place, and that value the agent-ready output enough to pay a premium over raw OCR. If your agents also need clean data pulled from the open web to pair with what they read out of documents, a web scraping API that returns LLM-ready data covers the other half of that ingestion problem. Where Extend is a poor fit is high-volume, cost-sensitive OCR: at 17 to 40 times the $1.50-per-1,000-pages cloud rate, plain text extraction is far cheaper elsewhere.

Extend versus a managed product

Extend is an API you wire into your own application, then review and correct the output yourself. A managed product such as DocuOCR bundles classification, extraction, validation, human review and export, billed per page at roughly $14 to $20 per 1,000 pages, so an operations or finance team can run it the same day without building software around a parser. Extend can win when you are shipping your own agent product and want the parsing primitives; a finished workflow wins when the goal is to get documents into your systems without engineering a pipeline. A credit rate also tells you nothing about whether the fields land correctly on your specific documents, so test the output before you commit either way.

Rates read from the Extend pricing page and credit-consumption documentation on July 22, 2026. Credit prices and tiers change, so re-verify before quoting.