Unstructured
Hosted document ETL platform that partitions PDFs, images and Office files into structured elements and tables for RAG pipelines.
Built for RAG ingestion pipelines rather than pure OCR, the service charges one flat rate of $15 per 1,000 pages after the first 10,000, with all features and partitioning strategies included. There are no tiers to choose between, but that rate is the joint highest modelled rate in this category alongside Amazon Textract's table extraction. The core Python library is Apache 2.0 and can be self-hosted, which offers a way out; no EU region is documented for self-serve.
- Headquarters
- 馃嚭馃嚫 United States
- Parent jurisdiction
- 馃嚭馃嚫 United States
- EU self-serve plan
- No / not documented
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Billing
- payg
- Free tier
- 10,000 free pages when the account starts (one-time).
- Open source
- Yes
- Website
- unstructured.io
- 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.
| 1k additional pages |
|---|
| $15 |
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.
- Base fee / month
- $0
- Included pages / month (thousands)
- 0
- 1k additional pages
- $15
Pay-as-you-go: $0.015 per page ($15 per 1,000) after the first 10,000 pages, all features and partitioning strategies included. Business plan (dedicated instance, VPC) is custom-priced. The core "unstructured" Python library is Apache 2.0 and can be self-hosted. No EU region documented for self-serve. Unstructured Technologies, Inc. publishes a GDPR DPA.
Managed alternatives
At 100K pages / month. Adjust usage and requirements.
Unstructured: $18,000/yr estimated.
- GPT-6 Luna (via OpenAI API): $719/yr estimated 路 $17,281/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 路 $17,155/yr bill differenceModeled ratesToken cost assumes a 1,000脳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 路 $16,756/yr bill differenceModeled ratesToken cost assumes a 1,000脳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 路 $16,134/yr bill differenceModeled ratesToken cost assumes a 1,000脳1,400 px page, a 300-token prompt and 800 output tokens. Extraction quality and retries vary.
- LlamaParse (LlamaIndex): $4,500/yr estimated 路 $13,500/yr bill differencePublished rates
No cheaper managed estimate matches your filters. Adjust your usage or compare with your actual contract bill.
The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you鈥檇 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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- LlamaParse (LlamaIndex) vs Mistral OCR
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