# Amazon Textract vs Mindee API

> Amazon Textract scores 73.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Mindee API's 61.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Mindee API leads on maintenance & community. Both do docs ocr. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Amazon Textract scores 73.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Mindee API's 61.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Mindee API leads on maintenance & community. Both do docs ocr.

- Amazon Textract: grade BB, 73.5/100, rank #85 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-textract.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/amazon-textract.json
- Mindee API: grade C, 61.3/100, rank #425 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mindee.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mindee.json

## 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 65
- Security & auth, 74 against 40
- Payments & pricing, 35 against 25
- Transparency & trust, 82 against 65

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

### Mindee API (C)

Good for: Teams with a fixed set of document types (invoices, receipts, IDs) who want short retention and EU processing.

Ahead on:
- Maintenance & community, 85 against 58

Watch for: Every call needs a model_id created in the web platform first


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Amazon Textract | Mindee API | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 96 | 65 | Amazon Textract +31 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 86 | Mindee API +4 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 68 | Amazon Textract +2 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 74 | 40 | Amazon Textract +34 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 25 | Amazon Textract +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 85 | Mindee API +27 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 82 | 65 | Amazon Textract +17 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **73.5 · BB** | **61.3 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Amazon Textract | Mindee API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Mindee |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://textract.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://api-v2.mindee.net/v2` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement. The AWS SDKs and the Textractor helper library are Apache-2.0 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-14 | 2025-06-23 |
| 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 | not found in the text |
| 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 | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 1.9M npm/wk, 208k PyPI/wk | 42 stars, 33k npm/wk, 5.5k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |

## 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.

**Mindee API.** Extracted data kept 12 hours by default (1 to 24 configurable), deletable on fetch, source files never stored. Every call needs a model_id created in the web platform first.

## 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

### Mindee API

1. Create the model in the Mindee app and store its `model_id`; the API can't create one for you
2. Enqueue returns 202; poll the job or use a webhook, and keep polling under 1,200 a minute
3. Send `Authorization: $MINDEE_API_KEY` with no Bearer prefix
4. Turn on confidence scores only when needed, since they cost 1.5 credits a page instead of 1
5. Keep schemas to 25 fields or fewer, the documented recommendation

## Questions

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

Amazon Textract scores 73.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Mindee API's 61.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Mindee API leads on maintenance & community.

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

Both need an API key.

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

Yes. Amazon Textract has a hosted endpoint at https://textract.us-east-1.amazonaws.com and Mindee API at https://api-v2.mindee.net/v2.


## For agents

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