# Amazon Textract vs Mindee API (slim)

> 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: BB 73.5, rank #85 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-textract.min.md
- Mindee API: C 61.3, rank #425 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mindee.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 65; Security & auth, 74 against 40; Payments & pricing, 35 against 25; Transparency & trust, 82 against 65. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.
- Mindee API, 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.

| Category | Amazon Textract | Mindee API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 96 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 82 | 86 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 70 | 68 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 74 | 40 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 25 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 58 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 82 | 65 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amazon Textract | Mindee API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Mindee |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://textract.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://api-v2.mindee.net/v2` |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement. The AWS SDKs and the Textractor helper library are Apache-2.0 | none |
| 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 |
| 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) |