Docparser alternatives: five document parsers with entry prices and free options

Docparser alternatives: the short answer and the price table

Five tools stand in for Docparser here: Parsio, Mailparser, Airparser, Parseur and Nanonets. Docparser Starter is $39 a month, billed monthly. Parsio has the lowest entry price of the five, $29 a month, billed monthly, followed by Mailparser at $29.95. Each tool counts usage in its own unit, so the allowance column matters as much as the price.

Where Docparser's Starter plan stops

Docparser Starter allows 15 parsers and is $32.50 a month when billed annually. Smart Tables and Teams of up to 5 members start on Pro, $74 a month, billed monthly, for 250 credits; Business is $159 a month, billed monthly, for 1,000. Docparser offers a 14-day trial with no credit card, and it sizes its 100 Starter credits at 100 to 500 pages a month. Parsio vs Docparser compares the two plan by plan.

Parsio and Airparser: engines and credits

Parsio puts four engines on every plan and has a free plan of 30 credits a month; Starter is $29 a month, billed monthly, or $24 a month, billed annually ($290 a year). Airparser, which parsio.io lists under "Also by us", does language-model parsing at one credit per page, email or image, with a free plan of 20 credits a month; Starter is $39 a month, billed monthly, or $33 a month, billed annually.

Parseur, Mailparser and Nanonets: pages, emails and blocks

Parseur charges one credit per page and has a free tier of 20 pages a month; Micro is $49 a month, billed monthly, or $39 a month, paid annually. Mailparser sells 250 email credits and 20 inboxes on Starter, $29.95 a month, billed monthly, and reads no images or scans; its FAQ sends OCR users to Docparser.

Nanonets bills per block run, one step of a workflow, at $0.02, $0.10 or $0.30 a run after $50 in starting credits, then $100 a month for 100 credits. For Docparser against Parseur alone, see Docparser vs Parseur.

Who should stay with Docparser, and who should switch

Stay with Docparser for multi-page PDFs and Word or image files: its 100 Starter credits are sized at 100 to 500 pages a month, where Parseur and Airparser charge a credit per page. Parsio's free plan, 30 credits a month, is enough to run a few sample documents through its engines and compare the output.

• Pick Parsio for a lower entry price, four engines and a free plan of 30 credits.
• Pick Parseur for one credit per page and a free tier of 20 pages.
• Pick Airparser for language-model extraction at one credit per page, email or image.
• Pick Mailparser for email bodies and text attachments, with a 30-day trial.
• Pick Nanonets for block-based workflows that classify documents and post to integrations.

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