# Amazon Textract vs Extend API + MCP (slim)

> Amazon Textract scores 73.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Extend API + MCP's 62.9 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Extend API + MCP leads on schema & documentation and maintenance & community. Both do docs parse. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side…

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Amazon Textract scores 73.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Extend API + MCP's 62.9 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Extend API + MCP leads on schema & documentation and maintenance & community. Both do docs parse.

- Amazon Textract: BB 73.5, rank #85 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-textract.min.md
- Extend API + MCP: B 62.9, rank #374 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/extend.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 67; Security & auth, 74 against 43; Payments & pricing, 35 against 30; Transparency & trust, 82 against 67. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.
- Extend API + MCP, good for Teams building production extraction with evaluation sets and versioned processors, and for agents that need to build or tune extractors as well as run them. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 87 against 82; Maintenance & community, 82 against 58.

| Category | Amazon Textract | Extend API + MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 96 | 67 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 82 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 70 | 68 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 74 | 43 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 58 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 82 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amazon Textract | Extend API + MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Extend |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://textract.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://api.extend.ai` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Price for docs parse | not published | $6.25 per 1,000 pages |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement. The AWS SDKs and the Textractor helper library are Apache-2.0 | none |
| Tools exposed | none | 86 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `ai.extend/extend` |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-09-25 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-14 | 2026-09-14 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2026-09-14 |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 1.9M npm/wk, 208k PyPI/wk | 124k npm/wk, 59k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 4/5 (2) |