# Clairic vs Invofox

> Clairic scores 66.3 (B) to Invofox's 46.8 (D) for document extraction. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-21

Clairic scores 66.3 (B) on agent readiness against Invofox's 46.8 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do document extraction.

- Clairic: grade B, 66.3/100, rank #330 of 1184. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-clairic.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudflare-clairic.json
- Invofox: grade D, 46.8/100, rank #980 of 1184. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/invofox.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/invofox.json
- Best document parsing, OCR and extraction APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/document-extraction/index.md
- All 142 documents comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/document-extraction/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Clairic (B)

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:
- Reliability, 51 against 30
- Schema & documentation, 85 against 70
- Agent ergonomics, 78 against 64
- Security & auth, 72 against 45
- Payments & pricing, 40 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 57 against 30
- Transparency & trust, 80 against 55

Watch for: Preview only. Cloudflare calls the endpoint an early checkpoint and expects to replace it under the unversioned ID `@cf/cloudflare/clairic`

### Invofox (D)

Good for: Teams that process a known set of business documents (invoices, payslips, bank statements, mortgage forms) at volume and can receive webhooks.

Watch for: No status page found. status.invofox.com does not resolve, and neither the site nor the docs link to one


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Clairic | Invofox | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 51 | 30 | Clairic +21 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 70 | Clairic +15 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 64 | Clairic +14 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 72 | 45 | Clairic +27 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 30 | Clairic +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 57 | 30 | Clairic +27 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 55 | Clairic +25 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **66.3 · B** | **46.8 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Clairic | Invofox |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Cloudflare | Invofox, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run/@cf/cloudflare/clairic` | `https://api.invofox.com` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| 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 | Proprietary hosted service. The n8n community node on GitHub is MIT |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-09-12 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | 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 | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | 3.3/5 (4) |

## Verdicts

**Clairic.** Clairic's price is public at $0.10 per million input tokens with no output charge, and its docs publish JSON Schemas, limitations and when to use a decision model instead. It is a preview that Cloudflare calls an early checkpoint, served under an unversioned ID with no SLA, and its promised open weights have no date or licence.

**Invofox.** Three public OpenAPI 3.1 files, llms.txt and Markdown docs describe an asynchronous upload and webhook flow, and the free plan covers 500 pages without a card. No status page, rate limit numbers, changelog or official SDK were found, and documents are retained by default, with zero retention limited to Scale and Enterprise.

## Before you call either

### Clairic

1. Send `model` as `clairic` in the body as well as in the URL. The input schema requires `model` and `fields`
2. Set `reference_date`, or add a line giving today's date to the state, for any field that depends on the current date
3. Treat a null `value` as not found, and read `p_null`, `confidence` or the 80% interval before acting. Typed output is well formed, not necessarily correct
4. Extract the inputs and do multi-step sums and table totals in code. Cloudflare says long arithmetic chains aren't reliable yet
5. Embed images as data URLs or base64 objects, at most four, 4 MiB each and 8 MiB in all. Remote image URLs are refused
6. Read the internal code on a 429. 3036 means the day's 10,000 free neurons are spent, 3040 means capacity, so retry later

### Invofox

1. Ask the owner for an API key and the Document Type id or alias from app.invofox.com. No API endpoint lists Document Types
2. Upload with POST /v1/ingest/uploads as multipart, with `info` as a JSON string. Send `"useClassifier": true` in place of `type` to have the type detected
3. Expect 404 from GET /documents/{id} for the first seconds. Poll from 5 seconds with doubling, and stop at approved, pendingCorrection or discarded
4. Handle the `file.rejected` webhook or check the import. A rejected file never produces a document, so polling the document waits indefinitely
5. Do not retry an upload blindly. There is no idempotency key, so send your own id in `clientData` and look it up with `filter` first

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Clairic or Invofox?

Clairic scores 66.3 (B) on agent readiness against Invofox's 46.8 (D), and leads in every scored category.

### Do Clairic and Invofox need an API key?

Both need an API key.

### Can an agent call Clairic and Invofox without installing anything?

Yes. Clairic has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run/@cf/cloudflare/clairic and Invofox at https://api.invofox.com.


## For agents

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

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