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Document Processing Cost

Monthly cost of document AI plus human review, set against doing the same work by hand.

Documents per monthPages per documentPrice per pageDollars per pageException rate%Minutes to review one exceptionMinutes to handle one document by handReviewer hourly costUSDOne-time build costUSD

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

$5,240.00 saved per month

Automated $760.00 ($40.00 vendor, $720.00 review). Manual $6,000.00.

Per document: $0.38 automated, $3.00 manual.

10,000 pages. Payback: no setup cost to recover.

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How this is calculated

Vendor cost is documents times pages per document times the price per page. Review cost is the exception rate times documents, times minutes per exception, times the hourly cost. Automated cost is those two added. Manual cost uses the fully manual minutes and the same hourly cost. Savings are manual minus automated.

Payback months are the one-time build cost divided by monthly savings. Zero build cost has nothing to recover. Zero or negative savings do not pay 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: their pages did not publish a dollar-per-page rate on 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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