# Amazon Textract vs Clairic

> Amazon Textract scores 73.7 (BB) to Clairic's 66.3 (B) for document extraction. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Amazon Textract scores 73.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Clairic's 66.3 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Clairic leads on agent ergonomics and payments & pricing. Both do document extraction.

- Amazon Textract: grade BB, 73.7/100, rank #85 of 1184. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-textract.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/amazon-textract.json
- Clairic: grade B, 66.3/100, rank #330 of 1184. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-clairic.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudflare-clairic.json
- Best document parsing, OCR and extraction APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/document-extraction/index.md
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## Which one, for what

### Amazon Textract (BB)

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 51
- Transparency & trust, 85 against 80

Also in its favour:
- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better

Watch for: AWS may store and use processed documents to improve the service, in other Regions too, unless an AI services opt-out policy is set on the AWS organisation

### Clairic (B)

Good for: Typed fields, estimates and next-step forecasts from emails, invoices, receipts and other text or images inside Cloudflare, each with a null probability and confidence.

Ahead on:
- Agent ergonomics, 78 against 70
- Payments & pricing, 40 against 35

Also in its favour:
- Free to start without a card

Watch for: Preview only. Cloudflare calls the endpoint an early checkpoint and expects to replace it under the unversioned ID `@cf/cloudflare/clairic`


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Amazon Textract | Clairic | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 96 | 51 | Amazon Textract +45 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 85 | Clairic +3 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 78 | Clairic +8 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 74 | 72 | Amazon Textract +2 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 40 | Clairic +5 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 57 | Amazon Textract +1 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 80 | Amazon Textract +5 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **73.7 · BB** | **66.3 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Amazon Textract | Clairic |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Model API |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Cloudflare |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://textract.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run/@cf/cloudflare/clairic` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement. The AWS SDKs and the Textractor helper library are Apache-2.0 | Proprietary hosted preview under Cloudflare's Self-Serve Subscription Agreement and the model page's own terms. Cloudflare says open weights will follow soon, with no date or licence named |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-19 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-14 | 2025-09-12 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |
| Popularity | 1.9M npm/wk, 208k PyPI/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 3.3/5 (4) |

## Verdicts

**Amazon Textract.** IAM policies limit a credential to single operations, CloudTrail logs every call, and page prices start at $1.50 per 1,000 in US East. Multipage files need S3 and an asynchronous job. Text detection covers six languages. Under the AWS Service Terms AWS may store and use documents to improve the service unless an AI services opt-out policy is set.

**Clairic.** Clairic's price is public at $0.10 per million input tokens with no output charge, and its docs publish JSON Schemas, limitations and when to use a decision model instead. It is a preview that Cloudflare calls an early checkpoint, served under an unversioned ID with no SLA, and its promised open weights have no date or licence.

## Before you call either

### Amazon Textract

1. Sign with SigV4 for service `textract` at `textract.<region>.amazonaws.com`, or call `aws textract detect-document-text`. The AWS CLI can't send image bytes, so reference an S3 object
2. Use `StartDocumentTextDetection` or `StartDocumentAnalysis` for any PDF or TIFF of more than one page, pass a `ClientRequestToken`, then page `Get` calls with `NextToken` (1,000 blocks at most each)
3. Fetch results within 7 days of starting a job, or set `OutputConfig` to write them to your own S3 bucket
4. Request only the `FeatureTypes` you need. Forms cost $50 per 1,000 pages against $15 for tables or queries in US East
5. Back off on `ProvisionedThroughputExceededException` (HTTP 400) and `ThrottlingException` (HTTP 500). Neither carries Retry-After, and default quotas are 1 call a second in most Regions
6. Set the AI services opt-out policy on the AWS organisation before sending customer documents

### Clairic

1. Send `model` as `clairic` in the body as well as in the URL. The input schema requires `model` and `fields`
2. Set `reference_date`, or add a line giving today's date to the state, for any field that depends on the current date
3. Treat a null `value` as not found, and read `p_null`, `confidence` or the 80% interval before acting. Typed output is well formed, not necessarily correct
4. Extract the inputs and do multi-step sums and table totals in code. Cloudflare says long arithmetic chains aren't reliable yet
5. Embed images as data URLs or base64 objects, at most four, 4 MiB each and 8 MiB in all. Remote image URLs are refused
6. Read the internal code on a 429. 3036 means the day's 10,000 free neurons are spent, 3040 means capacity, so retry later

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Amazon Textract or Clairic?

Amazon Textract scores 73.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Clairic's 66.3 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Clairic leads on agent ergonomics and payments & pricing.

### Do Amazon Textract and Clairic need an API key?

Both need an API key.

### Can an agent call Amazon Textract and Clairic without installing anything?

Yes. Amazon Textract has a hosted endpoint at https://textract.us-east-1.amazonaws.com and Clairic at https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run/@cf/cloudflare/clairic.


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