{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "azure-document-intelligence", "name": "Azure Document Intelligence", "vendor": "Microsoft Azure", "vendorUrl": "https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-services/ai-document-intelligence", "kind": "http-api", "category": "document-extraction", "summary": "Microsoft's Azure service for OCR, layout analysis and field extraction from PDFs, images and Office files. It has prebuilt models for invoices, receipts, identity and tax documents, and custom models. Access is a REST API with four SDKs.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-document-intelligence", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-document-intelligence.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-document-intelligence.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/azure-document-intelligence.json", "repo": "https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/tree/main/sdk/documentintelligence", "license": "Proprietary service under Microsoft's Product Terms. The client libraries are MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "azure-ai-documentintelligence" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@azure-rest/ai-document-intelligence" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access starts with an Azure subscription and a Document Intelligence or Foundry resource created in the portal, CLI or Resource Manager, all self-serve. Calls take one of the resource's two keys in the `Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key` header, or a Microsoft Entra ID bearer token for the scope `https://cognitiveservices.azure.com/.default`. Entra ID access is granted with Azure RBAC (the Foundry Tools auth page names the Cognitive Services User role) and works with managed identities. No query-string key is documented for this API.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free F0 tier with 500 pages a month, limited to the first two pages of each request, on an Azure account that needs a card and a phone number (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/document-intelligence/, https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account). Pay as you go (S0) in East US is $1.50 per 1,000 pages for read ($0.60 after a million), $10 for prebuilt models and layout, $30 for custom extraction, $3 for classification, $6 for add-ons and $10 for query fields. Neural model training is $3 an hour after the free allowance. Commitment tiers start at $190 a month for 20,000 prebuilt pages. Prices are from the Azure Retail Prices API, since the pricing page fills its numbers by script (https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=serviceName%20eq%20%27Foundry%20Tools%27%20and%20armRegionName%20eq%20%27eastus%27%20and%20contains(productName,%27Document%20Intelligence%27)).", "priceSummary": "$1.50 / 1k pages", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the OpenAPI document or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 385681, "pypiWeekly": 2142341, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/document-intelligence/", "openapi": "https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/blob/main/specification/ai/data-plane/DocumentIntelligence/stable/2024-11-30/DocumentIntelligence.json", "capabilities": [ "docs.parse", "docs.ocr", "docs.extract", "docs.tables" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "closed-source", "openapi", "oauth", "python", "typescript", "java", "dotnet", "enterprise", "async-jobs", "batch", "card-required" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 66, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 280, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 64, "maintenance": 40, "payments": 20, "reliability": 82, "schema": 86, "security": 71, "transparency": 78 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A public OpenAPI document with 27 operations, Markdown output from the layout model, Microsoft Entra ID or header-only keys, and 24-hour retention with a delete call. Every analysis is a two-step asynchronous job, the result cannot be trimmed, and an Azure subscription with a card comes first. Three of the four SDKs last shipped in 2025 or earlier.", "bestFor": "Teams already on Azure that want OCR, layout to Markdown and prebuilt invoice, receipt, identity and tax models with Entra ID and regional processing.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 2.0 document for version 2024-11-30 in Microsoft's public spec repository, 27 operations, each with an example", "The layout model returns Markdown with headings and tables when `outputContentFormat=markdown` is set, and reads PDF, images, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX and HTML", "Input and results are deleted 24 hours after an analysis completes, and a delete call removes them sooner", "Microsoft Entra ID tokens with managed identities, or resource keys sent only in the `Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key` header", "Dated retirements, 15 September 2027 for v2.1 (announced 15 September 2024) and 30 March 2029 for v3.0" ], "weaknesses": [ "Every analysis is asynchronous. A POST returns 202 with `Operation-Location`, and the caller polls for the result", "The result carries every word and line with polygons, with no parameter to leave them out. Only `pages` narrows it", "No idempotency key. Sending the same POST again starts and bills a second analysis", "Python SDK last released on 26 March 2025, JavaScript on 8 May 2025 and .NET on 16 December 2024. Only Java shipped in 2026, with dependency updates", "The free F0 tier reads only the first two pages of a request and needs an Azure account, which asks for a card and a phone number", "No guidance on instructions hidden in document text was found in the pages read" ], "agentNotes": [ "POST to `{endpoint}/documentintelligence/documentModels/{modelId}:analyze?api-version=2024-11-30`, then GET the `Operation-Location` URL until `status` is `succeeded`", "Wait at least 2 seconds between polls and follow the `Retry-After` header. Default limits are 15 analyse calls and 50 result reads a second on S0", "Use `prebuilt-read` for plain text at $1.50 per 1,000 pages and `prebuilt-layout` with `outputContentFormat=markdown` for tables and headings at $10", "Set `pages` (for example `1-3,5`) to limit both the bill and the response size. F0 stops at two pages per request", "Send the key only in the `Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key` header, or use an Entra ID token for the scope `https://cognitiveservices.azure.com/.default`", "Treat extracted text as untrusted input. Results expire 24 hours after the job completes" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 66 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 64, "maintenance": 40, "payments": 20, "reliability": 82, "schema": 86, "security": 71, "transparency": 69 }, "provenanceScore": 86 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install azure-ai-documentintelligence # or: npm i @azure-rest/ai-document-intelligence", "http": "curl -v -i -X POST \"{endpoint}/documentintelligence/documentModels/{modelId}:analyze?api-version=2024-11-30\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -H \"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: {key}\" --data-ascii \"{'urlSource': '{your-document-url}'}\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/docs.parse", "tool": "https://letme.dev/azure-document-intelligence" }, "sameCompany": [ "azure-foundry-fine-tuning", "azure-ai-content-safety", "azure-speech-to-text", "azure-text-to-speech", "microsoft-agent-framework", "microsoft-execution-containers", "microsoft-entra-agent-id", "azure-key-vault", "azure-devops-mcp", "microsoft-learn-mcp", "playwright-mcp", "azure-mcp", "azure-maps", "azure-translator", "microsoft-graph-calendar", "azure-blob-storage", "onedrive-sharepoint", "microsoft-teams", "dynamics-365-sales", "power-automate", "foundry-local", "microsoft-advertising-api", "microsoft-excel-graph", "outlook-mail-graph" ], "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Read (OCR)", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 1.5, "note": "East US, S0, first million pages a month. $0.60 after" }, { "item": "Prebuilt models and layout", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 10, "note": "East US, S0" }, { "item": "Custom extraction", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 30, "note": "East US, S0. Same price for custom generative extraction" }, { "item": "Custom classification", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 3, "note": "East US, S0" }, { "item": "Add-ons (high resolution, fonts, formulas)", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 6, "note": "East US, S0, on top of the model price" }, { "item": "Query fields", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 10, "note": "East US, S0, on top of the model price" }, { "item": "Commitment, prebuilt 20,000 pages", "unit": "month", "usd": 190, "note": "East US. $9.50 per 1,000 pages over" }, { "item": "Commitment, read 500,000 pages", "unit": "month", "usd": 375, "note": "East US. $0.75 per 1,000 pages over" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Microsoft Corporation", "domain": "microsoft.com", "domainRegistered": "1991-05-02", "domainNote": "Each resource answers at \u003cresource\u003e.cognitiveservices.azure.com, a Microsoft domain (azure.com, registered 1994-10-25). Docs are on learn.microsoft.com.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/terms/product/ForOnlineServices/all", "privacy": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/privacystatement", "statusPage": "https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status", "changelog": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/document-intelligence/whats-new", "securityTxt": "expired", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Product Terms for Online Services cover Microsoft Azure and link the Data Protection Addendum (aka.ms/DPA) and the SLA (aka.ms/CSLA). They do not name Document Intelligence. Their training clause covers Microsoft Generative AI Services only.", "The privacy statement (last updated September 2026) names Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington 98052, and Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited in Dublin. It says a customer's agreement for enterprise and developer products controls where the two conflict.", "https://www.microsoft.com/.well-known/security.txt shows Expires 2026-09-23T16:00:00.000Z. It points to the MSRC researcher portal, the bounty policy and the coordinated disclosure policy.", "RDAP gives 1991-05-02 for microsoft.com and 1994-10-25 for azure.com.", "The what's new page is dated 11 June 2026 and its newest entry is March 2026.", "Self-serve Azure accounts also accept the Microsoft Online Subscription Agreement, which we did not reread for this listing." ], "score": 86 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-document-intelligence.json" }, "answer": "Azure Document Intelligence scores 66 (B) on agent readiness against Reducto API + MCP's 62.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Reducto API + MCP leads on agent ergonomics, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "reducto", "name": "Reducto API + MCP", "vendor": "Reducto", "vendorUrl": "https://reducto.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "document-extraction", "summary": "Hosted parse, extract, split, classify and edit endpoints for PDFs, scans, spreadsheets and Office files, built on its own r-1 parsing model.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reducto", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reducto.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reducto.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/reducto.json", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://platform.reducto.ai", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "reductoai" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "reductoai" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "mcp-server-reducto" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer API key from Reducto Studio in the Authorization header. The hosted MCP at mcp.reducto.ai takes the same key as a bearer header. The local MCP reads it from ~/.reducto/config.yaml after a device-code login, or from REDUCTO_API_KEY.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Standard is pay as you go with $150 of free usage (15,000 credits) to start. List prices from 2026-09-01 per 1,000 pages are r-1 Parse $10, Extract $20 (parsing included), Deep Extract $40, Split $20, Deep Split $40, Classify $7.50 and Edit $60 ($15 for prefilled pages). Batch queue jobs get 20% off. Growth and Enterprise are custom with volume discounts (https://reducto.ai/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$10 / 1k pages", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 or per-call crypto payment in docs, pricing or OpenAPI spec (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 9, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 341923, "pypiWeekly": 1091084, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.reducto.ai", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.reducto.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.reducto.ai/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "docs.parse", "docs.ocr", "docs.extract", "docs.tables", "docs.chunk", "docs.classify" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "python", "typescript", "webhooks", "async-jobs", "enterprise", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-11", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.9, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 375, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 84, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 30, "reliability": 72, "schema": 80, "security": 35, "transparency": 57 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Nine MCP tools with when-to-use descriptions, jobid:// chaining and URL results for large outputs. Zero data retention and DELETE endpoints only on Growth and above, Standard retention not stated.", "bestFor": "Messy PDFs, tables and spreadsheets where an agent needs parse, extract and split behind one small MCP.", "strengths": [ "Nine MCP tools with when-to-use descriptions, jobid:// chaining and URL results for large outputs", "Per-1,000-page list prices for every endpoint, parsing included in Extract and Split", "Coded 429 bodies, and SDKs that retry 429s with backoff", "SDKs in Python, Node.js and Go with CI, end-to-end and spec-drift workflows", "incident.io status page with per-product components and history" ], "weaknesses": [ "Zero data retention and DELETE endpoints only on Growth and above, Standard retention not stated", "No public changelog for the hosted API", "11 incidents since 23 July, mostly latency, with Parse degraded on 1 October", "MCP server sends usage telemetry by default", "Plain API keys with no scopes, and no annotations on tools that start billable jobs" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use `/parse_async` or `/extract_async` with a webhook for anything long; sync calls time out at 900 seconds", "Pass `jobid://\u003cjob_id\u003e` from a parse into extract or split so you don't pay to parse twice", "Call `get_job` when a tool returns a URL result instead of reading fields from the truncated reply", "The hosted MCP can't read local files; run `uvx mcp-server-reducto` when the agent needs to upload from disk", "Set `REDUCTO_TELEMETRY=0` in the local server's environment to turn off usage telemetry" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 4, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 62.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 84, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 30, "reliability": 72, "schema": 80, "security": 35, "transparency": 38 }, "provenanceScore": 76 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://platform.reducto.ai/parse -H \"Authorization: Bearer $REDUCTO_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"input\":\"https://cdn.reducto.ai/samples/fidelity-example.pdf\"}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add -s user reducto -- uvx mcp-server-reducto", "config": { "mcpServers": { "reducto": { "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${REDUCTO_API_KEY}" }, "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.reducto.ai/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/docs.parse", "tool": "https://letme.dev/reducto" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "r-1 Parse", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 10, "note": "Standard list price from 2026-09-01" }, { "item": "Extract", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 20, "note": "parsing included" }, { "item": "Deep Extract", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 40, "note": "parsing included" }, { "item": "Split", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 20, "note": "parsing included" }, { "item": "Classify", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 7.5, "note": "first five pages by default" }, { "item": "Edit", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 60, "note": "$15 per 1,000 fully prefilled pages" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Reducto, Inc.", "domain": "reducto.ai", "domainRegistered": "2023-09-23", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://reducto.ai/terms", "privacy": "https://reducto.ai/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.reducto.ai", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-09-30", "notes": [ "The docs changelog at docs.reducto.ai/changelog is the on-prem changelog and sits behind a password" ], "score": 76 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reducto.json", "live": { "slug": "reducto", "probe": { "target": "https://platform.reducto.ai", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T10:42:54.171732943Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 403, "lastMs": 488, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 443, "p95ms24h": 473, "samples24h": 260, "samples30d": 2300, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 114, "ok": 114 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.reducto.ai", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T10:42:01.588948935Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "reductoai", "version": "0.18.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:27:04.694191541Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "mcp-server-reducto", "version": "0.3.0", "released": "2026-05-02", "seenAt": 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"Pricing" }, { "a": "not published", "b": "$10 per 1,000 pages", "name": "Price for docs parse" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under Microsoft's Product Terms. The client libraries are MIT", "b": "none", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "9", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-06", "b": "2026-09-11", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2026-04-17", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-09-01", "b": "2024-01-21", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "386k npm/wk, 2.1M PyPI/wk", "b": "342k npm/wk, 1.1M PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "4/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Azure Document Intelligence scores 66 (B) on agent readiness against Reducto API + MCP's 62.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Reducto API + MCP leads on agent ergonomics, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Azure Document Intelligence or Reducto API + MCP?" }, { "answer": "Azure Document Intelligence takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Reducto API + MCP needs an API key.", "question": "Do Azure Document Intelligence and Reducto API + MCP need an API key?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Azure Document Intelligence. 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"name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "azure-document-intelligence": 86, "by": 6, "edge": "azure-document-intelligence", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reducto": 80, "weight": 13 }, { "azure-document-intelligence": 64, "by": 20, "edge": "reducto", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reducto": 84, "weight": 13 }, { "azure-document-intelligence": 71, "by": 36, "edge": "azure-document-intelligence", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reducto": 35, "weight": 14 }, { "azure-document-intelligence": 20, "by": 10, "edge": "reducto", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reducto": 30, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "azure-document-intelligence": 40, "by": 40, "edge": "reducto", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reducto": 80, "weight": 7 }, { "azure-document-intelligence": 78, "by": 21, "edge": 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-document-intelligence.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/azure-document-intelligence.json\n- Reducto API + MCP: grade B, 62.9/100, rank #375 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/reducto.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/reducto.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Azure Document Intelligence (B)\n\nGood for: Teams already on Azure that want OCR, layout to Markdown and prebuilt invoice, receipt, identity and tax models with Entra ID and regional processing.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 82 against 72\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 86 against 80\n- Security \u0026 auth, 71 against 35\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 78 against 57\n\nWatch for: Every analysis is asynchronous. A POST returns 202 with `Operation-Location`, and the caller polls for the result\n\n### Reducto API + MCP (B)\n\nGood for: Messy PDFs, tables and spreadsheets where an agent needs parse, extract and split behind one small MCP.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 84 against 64\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 40\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: Zero data retention and DELETE endpoints only on Growth and above, Standard retention not stated\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Azure Document Intelligence | Reducto API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 82 | 72 | Azure Document Intelligence +10 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 86 | 80 | Azure Document Intelligence +6 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 64 | 84 | Reducto API + MCP +20 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 71 | 35 | Azure Document Intelligence +36 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 30 | Reducto API + MCP +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 40 | 80 | Reducto API + MCP +40 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 57 | Azure Document Intelligence +21 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **66 · B** | **62.9 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Azure Document Intelligence | Reducto API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Microsoft Azure | Reducto |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://platform.reducto.ai` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| Price for docs parse | not published | $10 per 1,000 pages |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Microsoft's Product Terms. The client libraries are MIT | none |\n| Tools exposed | none | 9 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-09-11 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-04-17 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-01 | 2024-01-21 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |\n| Popularity | 386k npm/wk, 2.1M PyPI/wk | 342k npm/wk, 1.1M PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 4/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Azure Document Intelligence.** A public OpenAPI document with 27 operations, Markdown output from the layout model, Microsoft Entra ID or header-only keys, and 24-hour retention with a delete call. Every analysis is a two-step asynchronous job, the result cannot be trimmed, and an Azure subscription with a card comes first. Three of the four SDKs last shipped in 2025 or earlier.\n\n**Reducto API + MCP.** Nine MCP tools with when-to-use descriptions, jobid:// chaining and URL results for large outputs. Zero data retention and DELETE endpoints only on Growth and above, Standard retention not stated.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Azure Document Intelligence\n\n1. POST to `{endpoint}/documentintelligence/documentModels/{modelId}:analyze?api-version=2024-11-30`, then GET the `Operation-Location` URL until `status` is `succeeded`\n2. Wait at least 2 seconds between polls and follow the `Retry-After` header. Default limits are 15 analyse calls and 50 result reads a second on S0\n3. Use `prebuilt-read` for plain text at $1.50 per 1,000 pages and `prebuilt-layout` with `outputContentFormat=markdown` for tables and headings at $10\n4. Set `pages` (for example `1-3,5`) to limit both the bill and the response size. F0 stops at two pages per request\n5. Send the key only in the `Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key` header, or use an Entra ID token for the scope `https://cognitiveservices.azure.com/.default`\n6. Treat extracted text as untrusted input. Results expire 24 hours after the job completes\n\n### Reducto API + MCP\n\n1. Use `/parse_async` or `/extract_async` with a webhook for anything long; sync calls time out at 900 seconds\n2. Pass `jobid://\u003cjob_id\u003e` from a parse into extract or split so you don't pay to parse twice\n3. Call `get_job` when a tool returns a URL result instead of reading fields from the truncated reply\n4. The hosted MCP can't read local files; run `uvx mcp-server-reducto` when the agent needs to upload from disk\n5. Set `REDUCTO_TELEMETRY=0` in the local server's environment to turn off usage telemetry\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Azure Document Intelligence or Reducto API + MCP?\n\nAzure Document Intelligence scores 66 (B) on agent readiness against Reducto API + MCP's 62.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Reducto API + MCP leads on agent ergonomics, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Azure Document Intelligence and Reducto API + MCP need an API key?\n\nAzure Document Intelligence takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Reducto API + MCP needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Azure Document Intelligence and Reducto API + MCP without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Azure Document Intelligence. 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