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Document Processing Cost

The monthly cost of having AI read your documents and a person check the ones it flags, next to doing all of it by hand.

Documents per monthPages per documentPrice per pageDollars per pageShare of documents a person has to check%Minutes to check one flagged documentMinutes to do one document fully by handHourly cost of the person checkingUSDOne-time cost to set it upUSD

$4 per 1,000 pages. Processors are billed separately, so convert plus extract costs both.

$5,240.00 saved per month

With AI: $760.00 ($40.00 to the vendor, $720.00 for checking). By hand: $6,000.00.

Per document: $0.38 with AI, $3.00 by hand.

10,000 pages. Time to earn back the setup cost: none, there is no setup cost.

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How this is calculated

Vendor cost is documents times pages per document times the price per page. Checking cost is the number of flagged documents (documents times the share a person checks) times the minutes per check, at the hourly cost. The cost with AI is those two added together. The cost by hand uses the minutes to do one document fully by hand, at the same hourly cost. Savings are the cost by hand minus the cost with AI.

Months to earn back the setup cost are the one-time cost divided by monthly savings. With no setup cost there is nothing to earn back. With zero or negative savings it never pays back.

Preset prices were checked on 2026-09-26. A custom price replaces the preset. LlamaParse, Reducto, Azure Document Intelligence, and Amazon Textract are left out because their pages did not list a dollar-per-page price that day.

Extend Light Parse: $0.00625 per page. Source, checked 2026-09-26. Pay as you go, from Extend's credit docs. Light parse is 0.5 credits per page at $0.0125 per credit. Scale is $0.005 per page. Extract is a separate charge.
Extend Performance Parse: $0.025 per page. Source, checked 2026-09-26. Pay as you go. Performance parse is 2 credits per page at $0.0125 per credit. Scale is $0.02 per page.
Extend Performance Extract: $0.0375 per page. Source, checked 2026-09-26. Pay as you go extract charge only, 3 credits per page. Extend's pricing page says a typical extract also runs parse, which is billed on top.
Datalab Convert, fast or balanced: $0.004 per page. Source, checked 2026-09-26. $4 per 1,000 pages. Processors are billed separately, so convert plus extract costs both.
Datalab Convert, accurate: $0.01 per page. Source, checked 2026-09-26. $10 per 1,000 pages.
Datalab Extraction, fast: $0.006 per page. Source, checked 2026-09-26. $6 per 1,000 pages.
Datalab Extraction, balanced: $0.015 per page. Source, checked 2026-09-26. $15 per 1,000 pages. Datalab notes possible extra compute fees on this mode.
Datalab Extraction, accurate: $0.02 per page. Source, checked 2026-09-26. $20 per 1,000 pages, plus possible compute fees.
Mistral OCR: $0.004 per page. Source, checked 2026-09-26. $4 per 1,000 pages.
Mistral OCR, batch: $0.002 per page. Source, checked 2026-09-26. $2 per 1,000 pages with the batch discount stated in Mistral's OCR 4 announcement.
Mistral Document AI: $0.005 per page. Source, checked 2026-09-26. $5 per 1,000 pages, from Mistral's OCR 4 announcement.

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