Clairic vs LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction

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.

LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction

Parse, Extract and Ground have a public OpenAPI description, Markdown docs, published credit rates and page limits, and a status page showing no incident in 90 days. The Explore plan's single API key cannot be revoked without support, and the published terms let LandingAI train on customer documents unless Zero Data Retention, a Team and Enterprise setting, is on.

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

LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction

1. Send Authorization: Bearer <key> to https://api.ade.landing.ai/v2/parse. EU keys work only on https://api.ade.eu-west-1.landing.ai
2. Submit large files to /v2/parse/jobs. Synchronous parse times out at 475 seconds and is capped at the plan's pages-per-minute limit
3. Leave jobs on the standard tier unless speed matters. It consumes half the credits of priority
4. Run Extract on the Markdown that Parse returned, then call Ground for page numbers and boxes. Ground consumes no credits
5. On a 429, read the message. One case clears with backoff and the other means the document is too large for the tier