# Amazon Textract vs Clairic (slim)

> 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: BB 73.7, rank #85 of 1184 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-textract.min.md
- Clairic: B 66.3, rank #330 of 1184 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-clairic.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 51; Transparency & trust, 85 against 80. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.
- Clairic, 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 Free to start without a card.

| Category | Amazon Textract | Clairic |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 96 | 51 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 82 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 70 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 74 | 72 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 58 | 57 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 85 | 80 |

| Fact (where they differ) | 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` |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 1.9M npm/wk, 208k PyPI/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 3.3/5 (4) |