# Clairic vs Extend API + MCP (slim)

> Clairic scores 66.3 (B) to Extend's 62.9 (B) for document extraction. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Clairic scores 66.3 (B) on agent readiness against Extend API + MCP's 62.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Extend API + MCP leads on reliability and maintenance & community. Both do document extraction.

- Clairic: B 66.3, rank #330 of 1184 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-clairic.min.md
- Extend API + MCP: B 62.9, rank #470 of 1184 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/extend.min.md
- Clairic, good for Typed fields, estimates and next-step forecasts from emails, invoices, receipts and other text or images inside Cloudflare, each with a null probability and confidence. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 78 against 68; Security & auth, 72 against 43; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Transparency & trust, 80 against 67. Also Free to start without a card.
- 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 Reliability, 67 against 51; Maintenance & community, 82 against 57. Also Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 4.0 against 3.3 out of 5.

| Category | Clairic | Extend API + MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 51 | 67 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 78 | 68 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 72 | 43 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 57 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 80 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Clairic | Extend API + MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Cloudflare | Extend |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run/@cf/cloudflare/clairic` | `https://api.extend.ai` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Price for document extraction | not published | $62.50 per 1,000 pages |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted preview under Cloudflare's Self-Serve Subscription Agreement and the model page's own terms. Cloudflare says open weights will follow soon, with no date or licence named | none |
| Tools exposed | none | 86 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `ai.extend/extend` |
| Last release | 2026-10-19 | 2026-09-25 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-09-12 | 2026-09-14 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-09-14 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 124k npm/wk, 59k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | 4/5 (2) |