Airparser sells credits on four monthly plans, from $39 a month for 100 credits up to $299 for 5,000, with about 17 percent off for annual billing. One credit parses one PDF page, one email, one image or one HTML document, so a three page invoice costs three credits and plans have to be sized in pages rather than documents. Unlike most metered parsers, Airparser does discount volume: the rate falls from $0.33 a page on Starter to $0.0498 on Premium. This page shows every published price, the per-page math at real utilization, and how the total compares with Textract, Azure and a flat-rate invoice tool.
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Airparser publishes its plans clearly. The gaps that catch buyers out are in how credits are counted, not in what the plans cost.
Growth includes 500 credits and reads like 500 invoices. It is 500 pages. At an average of two pages per supplier invoice that covers roughly 250 invoices a month, which doubles the real cost per document against a page-count estimate.
Unused credits are forfeited at the end of each billing period, and Airparser does not sell arbitrary extra credits. You size the plan for your busiest month, then pay for that ceiling in every quieter month.
Reparsing with the same schema is free. Edit the extraction schema and Airparser reparses in full and charges again, so three revisions across 30 test documents burns 90 credits before any production work.
Airparser states it is not designed for long documents and does not recommend PDFs over 10 pages, advising 1 to 5. Multi-page invoice packs need splitting first, and every resulting page still bills a credit.
These are the published Airparser figures as of August 2026, taken from the pricing page and the knowledge base. Confirm current numbers with Airparser before you buy, since subscription pricing changes.
Starter $39, Growth $59, Business $179 and Premium $299, including 100, 500, 2,000 and 5,000 credits. Annual billing takes about 17 percent off, bringing them to $33, $49, $149 and $249, which Airparser describes as two months free.
A credit is consumed for each parsed email, document, image or PDF page. Multi-page invoices multiply accordingly, which is the single most common reason a plan runs out earlier than expected.
The rate drops from $0.33 per page on Starter to $0.0498 on Premium annual, a 6.6x reduction. LlamaParse and LandingAI price their plans at exactly the credit rate times the allowance, so this is a real difference.
Six models across the Core and Flex families, all at one credit per page. Escalating from the default Core-1.5 to Flex-beta for a difficult layout costs nothing extra, which is the opposite of token-metered vendors.
The REST API, webhooks and the Zapier, Make and n8n connectors are included from Starter up. Higher tiers add longer retention and, from Business, unlimited team members.
All features included, no credit card, 30 day retention. Twenty credits is an evaluation allowance rather than a production tier, but it is enough to test extraction quality on your own documents first.
Four steps to a number you can defend, using only figures Airparser publishes.
Pull a real month of supplier invoices and count pages. If the average invoice runs two pages, your page volume is double your invoice volume, and the plan has to cover the pages.
Tip: Include the remittance packs and the multi-page statements. Those are the documents that quietly drain an allowance.
Credits expire and cannot be topped up, so the plan has to clear your busiest month. Work out what that ceiling costs you in an average month, because that is your real rate.
Tip: At 500 pages a month, Growth costs $98 per 1,000 pages and Business costs $298 for the same work. Oversizing is expensive here in a way it is not on a per-page API.
Schema changes force a full reparse and bill again. Run your initial schema experiments on the free Trial plan, or set aside a chunk of the first paid month explicitly for setup.
Tip: Three schema revisions over 30 documents is 90 credits, which is nearly a whole Starter month.
The raw APIs cost $4 to $12.50 per 1,000 pages but arrive with no inbox, no schema builder and no review queue. Price the engineering time before treating that gap as savings.
Tip: If invoices are the only document type and volume is the constraint, a flat invoice plan removes the credit meter entirely.
A general no-code document parser and a dedicated invoice tool solve overlapping but different problems. Here is the honest split.
Resumes, bills of lading, order confirmations, KYC documents and invoices arriving in the same mailbox suit a general parser far better than an invoice-specific tool. That routing flexibility is what the per-page premium buys.
The schema builder, the review queue and the Zapier and Make connectors mean a non-developer can ship a working pipeline in an afternoon. If nobody on the team writes code, this is the whole value proposition.
At small volumes the per-page rate matters less than the setup time, and Growth at $49 a month with 500 credits is a reasonable landing spot for a small business with modest document flow.
If invoices are the job, page allowances and full line-item capture drive the decision. Five times the pages at the same monthly price changes the arithmetic well before you reach enterprise volume.
Last updated August 2026. Every plan price, credit allowance and retention window below was read on 16 August 2026 from Airparser's own pricing page and knowledge base, including the monthly figures that only appear when you flip the billing toggle. Pricing changes, so confirm with Airparser before you commit budget.
Airparser sells credits on four monthly plans: Starter at $39 a month, Growth at $59, Business at $179 and Premium at $299, each dropping about 17 percent if you pay annually, to $33, $49, $149 and $249. One credit parses one PDF page, one email, one image or one HTML document, and the plans include 100, 500, 2,000 and 5,000 credits a month respectively. That works out to $330 per 1,000 pages on Starter and $49.80 per 1,000 on Premium when billed annually. A free Trial plan gives you 20 credits a month with every feature enabled and no credit card.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual (per month) | Credits per month | Retention | Team members | Cost per 1,000 pages (annual) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trial | Free | Free | 20 | 30 days | No | Not applicable |
| Starter | $39 | $33 | 100 | 30 days | No | $330.00 |
| Growth | $59 | $49 | 500 | 90 days | No | $98.00 |
| Business (most popular) | $179 | $149 | 2,000 | 90 days | Unlimited | $74.50 |
| Premium | $299 | $249 | 5,000 | 180 days | Unlimited | $49.80 |
All four paid plans include OCR for scans, images and handwriting, plus the API, webhooks and the Zapier, Make and n8n integrations. The only things the higher tiers add beyond credits are longer document retention and, from Business up, unlimited team members. High-volume pricing beyond Premium is quote-only through Airparser sales.
Run the per-credit arithmetic across the four plans and the rate falls from $0.33 on Starter to $0.0498 on Premium, a 6.6x reduction for the same work. That is worth pointing out because it is unusual. LlamaParse and LandingAI both price their paid plans at exactly the credit price multiplied by the allowance, so their monthly fee buys seats and rate limits but never a cheaper page. Airparser genuinely rewards moving up. If you are running 400 pages a month on Starter and topping up by renewing early, you are paying roughly six times the rate available one tier up.
| Event | Credits consumed | What it means for a monthly budget |
|---|---|---|
| One PDF page parsed | 1 | A three page invoice costs 3 credits, not 1. Plans are sized in pages, not documents. |
| One email parsed | 1 | Body-only emails are the cheapest thing Airparser handles. |
| One image parsed | 1 | Phone photos of receipts and invoices bill the same as a clean page. |
| One HTML document parsed | 1 | Order confirmations and web receipts count as a single unit. |
| Reparsing with the same schema | 0 | Re-triggering an integration on an already-parsed document is free. |
| Reparsing after a schema change | Full cost again | Editing the extraction schema forces a full reparse and bills every page a second time. |
| Unused credits at period end | Forfeited | Credits do not roll over. Each cycle starts fresh at the plan allowance. |
Every per-page figure a subscription tool publishes assumes you use the whole allowance. Almost nobody does. Because Airparser credits expire monthly and cannot be topped up with an arbitrary purchase, the plan you pick has to cover your busiest month, which means most months run under. Here is what that does to the real rate, using annual billing.
| Pages actually parsed per month | Growth ($49, 500 credits) | Business ($149, 2,000 credits) | Premium ($249, 5,000 credits) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 250 | $196 per 1,000 | $596 per 1,000 | $996 per 1,000 |
| 500 | $98 per 1,000 | $298 per 1,000 | $498 per 1,000 |
| 1,000 | Over allowance | $149 per 1,000 | $249 per 1,000 |
| 2,000 | Over allowance | $74.50 per 1,000 | $124.50 per 1,000 |
| 5,000 | Over allowance | Over allowance | $49.80 per 1,000 |
The number to sit with is the 500-page row. Buying Business when you only parse 500 pages a month costs $298 per 1,000 pages, while Growth costs $98 per 1,000 for the identical workload. Three times the price, same documents, and the only difference is that you sized the plan for a peak that rarely arrives. On a per-page API, unused capacity costs nothing. Here it costs everything you did not use.
Growth includes 500 credits, and that reads like 500 invoices. It is 500 pages. If your average supplier invoice runs two pages, Growth covers about 250 invoices a month, and the real cost is $0.196 an invoice rather than the $0.098 a page-count estimate suggests. Multi-page remittance packs make this worse quickly: a six page invoice bundle burns six percent of an entire Starter month in a single upload.
Airparser's own knowledge base says it is not designed for long documents, does not recommend parsing PDFs longer than 10 pages, and advises keeping files within 1 to 5 pages for best accuracy and performance. That is a straight answer and a useful one, but it means long invoice packs, contract-length documents and scanned statement bundles need splitting before they go in. That splitting step is work someone has to build, and each resulting page still bills a credit.
Reparsing a document you already parsed is free, which is genuinely helpful when you just need to re-fire a webhook. Change the extraction schema, though, and Airparser reparses the document in full and charges again. During setup that is the expensive part. Testing three schema revisions across 30 sample documents costs 90 credits, which is 90 percent of a Starter month before you have processed a single real invoice. Budget your evaluation separately from your production volume, or run the evaluation on the free Trial plan and its 20 credits first.
Airparser is a finished no-code product, not an extraction API you wire up yourself, so a straight per-page comparison flatters the APIs. It is still the comparison buyers ask for, and the gap is large enough to be worth seeing plainly.
| Tool | Cost per 1,000 invoice pages | What you get for it |
|---|---|---|
| Airparser Premium (annual) | $49.80 | Mailbox monitoring, no-code schema builder, human-in-the-loop review, Zapier, Make, n8n, API |
| Airparser Growth (annual) | $98.00 | Same feature set, smaller allowance |
| LlamaParse Agentic | $12.50 | Parsing API only, you build everything around it |
| AWS Textract AnalyzeExpense | $10.00 | Native invoice fields, no line-item guarantee, AWS integration work required |
| Azure Document Intelligence prebuilt-invoice | $10.00 | Native invoice fields with strong line-item scores, Azure integration work required |
| Mistral OCR 4 | $4.00, or $2.00 through Batch | Page to markdown, no invoice schema, no workflow |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | $1.58 | Token-metered, a page counts as a flat 258 tokens, you write the prompt and schema |
Airparser's cheapest per-page rate is roughly five times AWS Textract and Azure Document Intelligence, and about twelve times Mistral OCR. That premium is not accidental and it is not unreasonable. It buys the parts nobody wants to build: an inbox that receives supplier emails, a schema builder a non-engineer can use, Python post-processing, a review queue for low-confidence fields, and connectors into 7,000-plus apps. If you have an engineering team and a pipeline already, you are paying for a layer you do not need. If you do not, building that layer costs far more than the difference.
The cleaner comparison is against tools priced the same way, by monthly subscription. Set the plans side by side at identical price points and the allowance gap is what stands out.
| Price point | Airparser (annual) | Pages included | InvoiceExtractor | Pages included |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $49 per month | Growth | 500 credits | Starter | 2,500 Base AI pages |
| $149 per month | Business | 2,000 credits | Plus | 10,000 Base AI pages |
| Pages per document | Not recommended above 10, best 1 to 5 | Up to 25 pages per document | ||
| Effective rate per 1,000 pages | $98.00 to $74.50 | $19.60 to $14.90 |
At both price points the page allowance is five times larger here, and the per-document page ceiling is more than double. That reflects different products rather than a like-for-like win. Airparser is a general document parser that handles resumes, bills of lading, KYC documents and order confirmations from one inbox, with a workflow layer around it. InvoiceExtractor does invoices, bills and purchase orders, captures the full line-item table, and exports to Excel, CSV, JSON or QBO. If your document estate is mixed and the routing matters more than the volume, Airparser earns its rate. If invoices are the job and volume is the constraint, the arithmetic favors the specialist.
Airparser lets you set a parsing model per inbox and publishes six of them: Core-1, Core-1.5 as the default, Core-beta, Flex-1, Flex-1.5 and Flex-beta. Core-beta and the Flex-1.5 and Flex-beta models handle longer documents; the Core family is faster. All of them consume the same one credit per page.
| Model | Family | Positioning per Airparser docs | Credit cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core-1.5 | Core (default) | Best choice in most cases, a variant of Core-1 that handles certain edge cases better | 1 per page |
| Core-1 | Core | Balanced speed and accuracy for most use cases and document types | 1 per page |
| Core-beta | Core | Processes longer documents, slower, best used only if other models fail | 1 per page |
| Flex-1 | Flex | Older stable model, sometimes better for specific layouts | 1 per page |
| Flex-1.5 | Flex | Updated Flex model with longer document capacity | 1 per page |
| Flex-beta | Flex | Latest Flex family model, good when Core models struggle | 1 per page |
This is worth knowing because it is the opposite of how the token-metered vendors work. On OpenAI, Claude and Gemini, moving to a more capable model multiplies the bill, sometimes by ten. On Airparser, if Core-1.5 misreads your supplier layout, you switch the inbox to Flex-beta and pay nothing extra. Escalating for accuracy is free, and the only cost of trying a different model is the reparse credits the schema change triggers.
Airparser costs $39 a month on Starter, $59 on Growth, $179 on Business and $299 on Premium, or $33, $49, $149 and $249 respectively when billed annually. Those plans include 100, 500, 2,000 and 5,000 credits a month, and one credit parses one PDF page, email, image or HTML document. A free Trial plan provides 20 credits a month.
Airparser has a permanently free Trial plan of 20 credits a month with all features enabled and no credit card required, including data export and third-party integrations. Twenty credits parses twenty pages, so it is a genuine evaluation allowance rather than a production tier. Past that, every parsed page consumes a paid credit.
One credit is consumed for each parsed email, document, image or PDF page. That means a five page PDF costs five credits, while a single email costs one. Credits refresh at the start of each billing period and unused ones expire rather than rolling over, so allowances have to cover your busiest month.
Yes, and it is included on every paid plan rather than reserved for higher tiers. The API base is api.airparser.com, authentication uses an X-API-Key header, and uploads run in two modes: sync, which waits up to about 60 seconds and returns the parsed data in the same response, and async, which uploads and delivers results later through webhooks or an integration.
Airparser does not name the underlying model vendor. It exposes its own abstraction instead: two families, Core and Flex, with six selectable models between them, plus a documented fallback chain across a text engine, a vision engine and an OCR engine. Practically this means you tune accuracy by switching Airparser models rather than by choosing a third-party LLM.
Airparser states plainly that it is not designed for long documents and does not recommend parsing PDFs longer than 10 pages, advising 1 to 5 pages for best accuracy and performance. Longer files should be split before upload. Since every page bills a credit either way, splitting changes the accuracy, not the cost.
Yes. OCR support is listed on all four paid plans, covering scanned documents, images and handwritten text, and Airparser says handwriting works as long as it is reasonably clear in the scan. Supported inputs are PDF including scans, JPG, PNG and BMP images, DOCX, TXT, HTML, Markdown, EML emails, and XLSX and CSV spreadsheets.
For no-code email and document parsing the closest substitutes are Parseur and Docparser, which sell the same inbox-plus-schema model on similar subscription tiers. For a developer API instead of a product, LlamaParse, AWS Textract and Azure Document Intelligence all cost far less per page and ask for far more integration work. For invoices specifically, a dedicated invoice tool gives you more pages per dollar and full line-item capture.
Not as a standalone top-up. Airparser does not sell arbitrary credit purchases, so if you exhaust an allowance the documented options are to wait for the next cycle, upgrade the plan, or renew the current plan early to receive a fresh full allowance valid for the next 30 days. Documents keep arriving in the meantime, they just stay unparsed until credits are available.
Airparser costs $39 a month on Starter, $59 on Growth, $179 on Business and $299 on Premium, or $33, $49, $149 and $249 respectively when billed annually. Those plans include 100, 500, 2,000 and 5,000 credits a month, and one credit parses one PDF page, email, image or HTML document. A free Trial plan provides 20 credits a month.
Airparser has a permanently free Trial plan of 20 credits a month with all features enabled and no credit card required, including data export and third-party integrations. Twenty credits parses twenty pages, so it is a genuine evaluation allowance rather than a production tier. Past that, every parsed page consumes a paid credit.
One credit is consumed for each parsed email, document, image or PDF page. That means a five page PDF costs five credits, while a single email costs one. Credits refresh at the start of each billing period and unused ones expire rather than rolling over, so allowances have to cover your busiest month.
Yes, and it is included on every paid plan rather than reserved for higher tiers. The API base is api.airparser.com, authentication uses an X-API-Key header, and uploads run in two modes: sync, which waits up to about 60 seconds and returns parsed data in the same response, and async, which uploads and delivers results later through webhooks or an integration.
Airparser does not name the underlying model vendor. It exposes its own abstraction instead: two families, Core and Flex, with six selectable models between them, plus a documented fallback chain across a text engine, a vision engine and an OCR engine. You tune accuracy by switching Airparser models rather than by choosing a third-party LLM, and every model costs the same one credit per page.
Airparser states plainly that it is not designed for long documents and does not recommend parsing PDFs longer than 10 pages, advising 1 to 5 pages for best accuracy and performance. Longer files should be split before upload. Since every page bills a credit either way, splitting changes the accuracy rather than the cost.
Yes. OCR support is listed on all four paid plans, covering scanned documents, images and handwritten text, and Airparser says handwriting works as long as it is reasonably clear in the scan. Supported inputs are PDF including scans, JPG, PNG and BMP images, DOCX, TXT, HTML, Markdown, EML emails, and XLSX and CSV spreadsheets.
Not as a standalone top-up. Airparser does not sell arbitrary credit purchases, so if you exhaust an allowance the documented options are to wait for the next cycle, upgrade the plan, or renew the current plan early to receive a fresh full allowance valid for the next 30 days. Documents keep arriving in the meantime, they just stay unparsed until credits are available.
For no-code email and document parsing the closest substitutes are Parseur and Docparser, which sell the same inbox-plus-schema model on similar subscription tiers. For a developer API instead of a finished product, LlamaParse, AWS Textract and Azure Document Intelligence all cost far less per page and ask for far more integration work. For invoices specifically, a dedicated invoice tool gives you more pages per dollar and full line-item capture.
The closest no-code rival: same inbox-plus-schema model, different credit math.
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