# Amazon Textract vs Azure Document Intelligence (slim)

> Amazon Textract scores 73.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Azure Document Intelligence's 66 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do docs parse. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Amazon Textract scores 73.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Azure Document Intelligence's 66 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do docs parse.

- Amazon Textract: BB 73.5, rank #85 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-textract.min.md
- Azure Document Intelligence: B 66, rank #280 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-document-intelligence.min.md
- Amazon Textract, good for Teams already on AWS with documents in S3 that need OCR, tables and form fields at volume with IAM and CloudTrail controls, and for US invoices, receipts, identity documents and mortgage packages. Ahead on Reliability, 96 against 82; Agent ergonomics, 70 against 64; Payments & pricing, 35 against 20; Maintenance & community, 58 against 40. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Azure Document Intelligence, good for Teams already on Azure that want OCR, layout to Markdown and prebuilt invoice, receipt, identity and tax models with Entra ID and regional processing.

| Category | Amazon Textract | Azure Document Intelligence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 96 | 82 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 82 | 86 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 70 | 64 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 74 | 71 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 58 | 40 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 82 | 78 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amazon Textract | Azure Document Intelligence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Microsoft Azure |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://textract.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | no (local only) |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement. The AWS SDKs and the Textractor helper library are Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under Microsoft's Product Terms. The client libraries are MIT |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-14 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2026-09-01 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 1.9M npm/wk, 208k PyPI/wk | 386k npm/wk, 2.1M PyPI/wk |