# Amazon Textract vs OpenDocRouter

> Amazon Textract scores 73.5 (BB) on agent readiness against OpenDocRouter's 56.6 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. OpenDocRouter leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance & community. Both do docs parse. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Amazon Textract scores 73.5 (BB) on agent readiness against OpenDocRouter's 56.6 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. OpenDocRouter leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance & community. Both do docs parse.

- 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
- OpenDocRouter: grade C, 56.6/100, rank #568 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/opendocrouter.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/opendocrouter.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 43
- Security & auth, 74 against 40
- Payments & pricing, 35 against 30
- Transparency & trust, 82 against 47

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

### OpenDocRouter (C)

Good for: Agents that need page-level markdown from PDFs and images and want to choose or compare models on price and published benchmark scores with one key.

Ahead on:
- Agent ergonomics, 84 against 70
- Maintenance & community, 65 against 58

Watch for: Launched on 7 October 2026. The domain was registered on 23 September 2026 and both SDKs have one release, 1.0.0


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Amazon Textract | OpenDocRouter | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 96 | 43 | Amazon Textract +53 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 85 | OpenDocRouter +3 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 84 | OpenDocRouter +14 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 74 | 40 | Amazon Textract +34 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 30 | Amazon Textract +5 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 65 | OpenDocRouter +7 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 82 | 47 | Amazon Textract +35 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **73.5 · BB** | **56.6 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Amazon Textract | OpenDocRouter |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | LlamaIndex |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://textract.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://www.opendocrouter.ai/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |
| Price for docs parse | not published | $0.80 per 1,000 pages |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement. The AWS SDKs and the Textractor helper library are Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under the LlamaIndex Terms of Service with an OpenDocRouter addendum. The Python and TypeScript SDKs are MIT |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-14 | 2026-10-07 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2024-03-30 |
| 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 | yes |
| 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 | 127 PyPI/wk |

## 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.

**OpenDocRouter.** One endpoint reaches 11 parsing models, each with a dated recipe version, a published token price and a ParseBench score, and failed pages aren't charged. The service launched on 7 October 2026, so it has no status page, incident history, SLA or changelog yet, and no key scopes were found in the reviewed documentation.

## 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

### OpenDocRouter

1. Call `GET /v1/models` first, which needs no key, and choose a model by `avg_charge_per_page_usd` and its ParseBench scores. Send its `id` as `model`
2. Send `cache: true` on any request you might repeat. Without it the markdown exists only in the POST response and a resend is charged as a new request
3. Raise the SDK timeout above its 60-second default for sync parses. Pages can run for 270 seconds and the SDKs retry a timed-out request twice
4. Check every page's `status` before using its markdown. A 200 can be `partial`, and failed pages can be resent alone with `pages`
5. Treat 402 as final until credit is added. The hold is the model's maximum charge per page times the page count, and `GET /v1/credits` shows `available_usd`

## Questions

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

Amazon Textract scores 73.5 (BB) on agent readiness against OpenDocRouter's 56.6 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. OpenDocRouter leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance & community.

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

Both need an API key.

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

Yes. Amazon Textract has a hosted endpoint at https://textract.us-east-1.amazonaws.com and OpenDocRouter at https://www.opendocrouter.ai/v1.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-textract-vs-opendocrouter.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amazon-textract-vs-opendocrouter.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "amazon-textract", "b": "opendocrouter"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare amazon-textract opendocrouter`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/amazon-textract.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/opendocrouter.json

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