LlamaParse (LlamaIndex)

LlamaIndex's hosted document parser with tiered LLM/VLM parsing modes, billed in credits; US and EU regions.

Developers already building with LlamaIndex get a parser whose cost depends on the mode chosen: Cost-effective parsing, which handles tables and layout, is 3 credits a page or $3.75 per 1,000, while Agentic Plus reaches $56.25. Plans are prepaid credit bundles and the Free plan has no pay-as-you-go, so overage starts on Starter at $50/month. An EU region is available on all plans, unlike Reducto, which keeps EU residency for its custom-priced tiers.

Headquarters: 🇺🇸 United States
Parent jurisdiction: 🇺🇸 United States
EU self-serve plan: Available; check eligible plans and regions
GDPR DPA: Yes
Billing: subscription
Free tier: Free plan: 10K credits/month (about 3,300 pages in Cost-effective mode).
Open source: No
Website: www.llamaindex.ai
Source last checked: 2026-10-06
Pricing evidence: Published rates

Pricing

Calculated from the listed vendor rates; exclusions still apply. How to read these estimates.

Plan	Base fee / month	1k additional pages
Free	$0	$3.75
Starter	$50	$3.75
Pro	$500	$3.75

Allowances, plan limits & calculation details

Rates are shown at their recorded precision. A zero means no charge in this calculation; the vendor may charge for things we leave out. See the notes for usage assumptions and currency conversions.

Free

Base fee / month: $0
Included pages / month (thousands): 3.333
1k additional pages: $3.75
Modeled plan limits: ≤ 3.333 pages / month (thousands)

Starter

Base fee / month: $50
Included pages / month (thousands): 13.333
1k additional pages: $3.75
Modeled plan limits: ≤ 146.667 pages / month (thousands)

Pro

Base fee / month: $500
Included pages / month (thousands): 133.333
1k additional pages: $3.75
Modeled plan limits: ≤ 1,466.667 pages / month (thousands)

1,000 credits = $1.25. Priced on the Cost-effective parse tier (3 credits/page = $3.75 per 1,000 pages), which handles tables and layout. Other tiers: Fast 1 credit (text only, $1.25/1k), Agentic 10 ($12.50/1k), Agentic Plus 45 ($56.25/1k); layout bounding boxes +3 credits/page. Plans: Free 10K credits/month, no pay-as-you-go; Starter $50 with 40K credits and pay-as-you-go up to 400K more; Pro $500 with 400K credits and pay-as-you-go up to $5,000/month (limits above convert those caps to pages). Larger volumes: Enterprise. EU region at cloud.eu.llamaindex.ai on all plans. DPA linked from the site.

Managed alternatives

At 100K pages / month. Adjust usage and requirements.

LlamaParse (LlamaIndex): $4,500/yr estimated.

GPT-6 Luna (via OpenAI API): $719/yr estimated · $3,781/yr bill differenceEstimated ratesPage cost uses an assumed image-token multiplier plus 300 prompt and 800 output tokens. Confirm actual token usage.
Mistral Small 3.2 (via Scaleway Generative APIs): $845/yr estimated · $3,655/yr bill differenceModeled ratesToken cost assumes a 1,000×1,400 px page, a 300-token prompt and 800 output tokens. Extraction quality and retries vary.
Qwen3-VL-235B (via DeepInfra): $1,244/yr estimated · $3,256/yr bill differenceModeled ratesToken cost assumes a 1,000×1,400 px page, a 300-token prompt and 800 output tokens. Extraction quality and retries vary.
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (via Gemini API): $1,866/yr estimated · $2,634/yr bill differenceModeled ratesToken cost assumes a 1,000×1,400 px page, a 300-token prompt and 800 output tokens. Extraction quality and retries vary.

The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you’d need to replace.

Self-hosted options

Operating cost is not estimated. These options are not counted as savings against managed services.

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