# Clairic vs Mindee API

> Clairic scores 66.3 (B) to Mindee's 61.3 (C) 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 Mindee API's 61.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Mindee API leads on reliability and maintenance & community. 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
- Mindee API: grade C, 61.3/100, rank #534 of 1184. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mindee.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mindee.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:
- Agent ergonomics, 78 against 68
- Security & auth, 72 against 40
- Payments & pricing, 40 against 25
- Transparency & trust, 80 against 65

Also in its favour:
- Free to start without a card

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

### Mindee API (C)

Good for: Teams with a fixed set of document types (invoices, receipts, IDs) who want short retention and EU processing.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 65 against 51
- Maintenance & community, 85 against 57

Watch for: Every call needs a model_id created in the web platform first


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Clairic | Mindee API | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 51 | 65 | Mindee API +14 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 86 | Mindee API +1 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 68 | Clairic +10 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 72 | 40 | Clairic +32 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 25 | Clairic +15 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 57 | 85 | Mindee API +28 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 65 | Clairic +15 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **66.3 · B** | **61.3 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Clairic | Mindee API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Cloudflare | Mindee |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run/@cf/cloudflare/clairic` | `https://api-v2.mindee.net/v2` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| 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 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-19 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-09-12 | 2025-06-23 |
| 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 |
| Popularity | none | 42 stars, 33k npm/wk, 5.5k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | 3/5 (2) |

## 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.

**Mindee API.** Extracted data kept 12 hours by default (1 to 24 configurable), deletable on fetch, source files never stored. Every call needs a model_id created in the web platform first.

## 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

### Mindee API

1. Create the model in the Mindee app and store its `model_id`; the API can't create one for you
2. Enqueue returns 202; poll the job or use a webhook, and keep polling under 1,200 a minute
3. Send `Authorization: $MINDEE_API_KEY` with no Bearer prefix
4. Turn on confidence scores only when needed, since they cost 1.5 credits a page instead of 1
5. Keep schemas to 25 fields or fewer, the documented recommendation

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Clairic or Mindee API?

Clairic scores 66.3 (B) on agent readiness against Mindee API's 61.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Mindee API leads on reliability and maintenance & community.

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

Both need an API key.

### Can an agent call Clairic and Mindee API 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 Mindee API at https://api-v2.mindee.net/v2.


## For agents

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

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