# Datalab vs Mindee API (slim)

> Datalab scores 65.6 (B) to Mindee's 57.8 (C) for ocr. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Datalab scores 65.6 (B) on agent readiness against Mindee API's 57.8 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Mindee API leads on reliability and maintenance & community. Both do ocr.

- Datalab: B 65.6, rank #413 of 1486 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/datalab.min.md
- Mindee API: C 57.8, rank #776 of 1486 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mindee.min.md
- Datalab, good for Hosted PDF and Office conversion and schema extraction with citations, from the team behind Marker. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 89 against 82; Agent ergonomics, 73 against 68; Security & auth, 56 against 40; Payments & pricing, 40 against 25. Also Free to start without a card; No incidents deducted, where Mindee API loses 6 points for them.
- Mindee API, good for Teams with a fixed set of document types (invoices, receipts, IDs) who want short retention and EU processing. Ahead on Reliability, 80 against 58; Maintenance & community, 85 against 79.

| Category | Datalab | Mindee API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 58 | 80 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 89 | 82 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 68 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 56 | 40 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 25 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 68 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Datalab | Mindee API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Endless Labs, Inc. (Datalab) | Mindee |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://www.datalab.to/api/v1` | `https://api-v2.mindee.net/v2` |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service under Datalab's terms; the Marker and Surya code is open source and model weights are free under revenue and funding thresholds | none |
| Tools exposed | 0 | none |
| Last release | 2026-11-06 | 2026-10-28 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-06-30 | 2025-06-23 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-06-30 | no date given |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 42 stars, 33k npm/wk, 5.5k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |

Why the edge:
- Reliability, Mindee API +22: Datalab 58 (Hosted lines. Status page at status.datalab.to (incident.io) with Website and Datalab API components; the history page is drawn by script, so components are confirmed and history isn't (15 of 20, 5 for history). Rate limits per plan with numbers, plus page and size limits (15). 429 is retryable with sample backoff, and 500 and 529 say to check a known request ID before resubmitting; webhooks deduplicate by request_id (13 of 15). Custom SLAs only for Enterprise (0). Generally available (10). 15+5+15+13+0+10 = 58.); Mindee API 80 (Statuspage at status.mindee.com with separate components for API V1, API V2 (api-v2.mindee.net) and Platform V2 (20). Its history feed, read on 2 November, lists two incidents since 4 August, both on API V1 only. They were 500 errors from the Invoices, Expense Receipts and Financial Documents APIs for 15 minutes on 11 August, and slower responses and failed requests for 10 minutes on 5 October. The listing is the V2 API, so no incident touches it in the window (30). 200 enqueue and 1,200 polling requests a minute per organisation (15). The error page says to wait a few seconds and try again on a 429, with no Retry-After and no idempotency key for enqueue (5 of 15). Custom SLAs on Enterprise only, none published (0). The V2 API is GA (10). 20 + 30 + 15 + 5 + 0 + 10 = 80.)
- Security & auth, Datalab +16: Datalab 56 (Several hashed API keys with per-key 30-day spend caps, revoke-and-replace rotation, no scopes (24 of 30). Spend caps limit damage; results and files can be deleted by the key holder, and there's no read-only key (10 of 20). Returns document text with no prompt-injection guidance (2 of 15). cost_breakdown per request and usage tracking in the dashboard (8 of 15). A Secureframe trust centre and a SOC 2 report on the Team plan, TOTP enforcement for teams; no disclosure policy or security.txt found (12 of 20). 24+10+2+8+12 = 56.); Mindee API 40 (Organisation-level API keys, several per organisation, deletable, with a recommendation to rotate every 3 months. Each key reaches every model in the organisation and keys never expire (20 of 30). The API only enqueues and reads jobs, so there's little to protect against, but there's no per-model or read-only key (10 of 20). Returns fields extracted from untrusted documents, with no prompt-injection guidance found (0 of 15). No audit log or per-key usage view found (0 of 15). The data processing page says Mindee V2 holds SOC 2 Type II and that a HIPAA BAA is available on Enterprise. No security.txt and no bug bounty found (10 of 20).)
- Payments & pricing, Datalab +15: Datalab 40 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-1,000-page rates for every processor and add-on on the public pricing page (20). A $10 to $20 monthly allowance with no card (20). A person signs up in a browser (0). 0+20+20+0 = 40.); Mindee API 25 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices and a per-credit rate are public, but the platform fee rendered as a placeholder in our fetch (15 of 20, our call). A 14-day free trial, and the pricing page doesn't say whether it needs a card (10 of 20, our call until that's confirmed). A person signs up in a browser and has to create a model in the platform before the first call (0).)
- Schema & documentation, Datalab +7: Datalab 89 (An OpenAPI 3.1 operation embedded in each reference page (spec version 0.0.1), no single downloadable file found (22 of 25). llms.txt with 159 pages and Markdown twins (10). Recipes say when to use each processor and mode (15 of 20). Typed request schemas with enums for output format and mode (12 of 15). An error table with type, HTTP code and whether to retry, plus SDK exception mapping (15). A written version policy and a dated changelog (15). 22+10+15+12+15+15 = 89.); Mindee API 82 (OpenAPI 3.1.0 spec at api-v2.mindee.net/openapi.json, version 2.0.0, 17 paths and 19 operations, 429 documented on 9 paths, read on 2 November (25). llms.txt and Markdown pages (10). The docs say plainly that a model must be defined in the platform before the API can use it, and recommend at most 25 fields per schema (13 of 20). Typed inputs, model_id and file required, optional switches for RAG, polygons, confidence and raw text (12 of 15). Errors follow a problem-details shape with status, title, detail and code, and the problem database lists cases across eight HTTP statuses (14 of 15). V1 and V2 APIs versioned by host, the spec marks the older /v2/inferences operations deprecated in favour of /v2/products/*, and each SDK keeps a dated CHANGELOG, but the public changelog at feedback.mindee.com says "No changes published" (8 of 15). 25 + 10 + 13 + 12 + 14 + 8 = 82.)
- Maintenance & community, Mindee API +6: Datalab 79 (Closed hosted service. Python SDK 0.9.1 on 6 November 2026 and a changelog entry on 4 November (30). Over twenty dated changelog entries since 8 August (20). Support by email, a Discord and public GitHub repositories for the open-source models; replies not sampled (12 of 15). An official Python SDK, current, no other languages (12 of 15). Package health not checked beyond release dates (5 of 10). 30+20+12+12+5 = 79.); Mindee API 85 (PHP SDK v3.4.0 on 28 October 2026, Java v5.7.1 and .NET v4.9.0 on 13 October, by their changelogs. The SDKs in the listing's packages last shipped Python v5.4.0 on 30 September and Node.js v5.10.0 on 23 September (30). Since 4 August Python shipped v5.3.0, v5.3.1 and v5.4.0 and Node.js seven releases from v5.6.1 to v5.10.0 (20). The public changelog page is empty. Community support on every plan and live chat on Pro, replies not sampled (10 of 15). Current official SDKs in Python, Node.js, Java, .NET, Ruby and PHP (15). The Python and Node.js repositories run unit, integration, regression and smoke-test workflows plus static analysis (10). 30 + 20 + 10 + 15 + 10 = 85.)
- Agent ergonomics, Datalab +5: Datalab 73 (Output as Markdown, HTML, JSON or chunks, `page_range` to limit pages, and cost_breakdown on results (20 of 25). File listing and pipeline endpoints, little else to paginate (14 of 20). Typed errors with retry guidance an agent can follow (18 of 20). No idempotency key; the docs say to poll a known request ID instead of resubmitting, and webhooks may be retried (12 of 20). Official Python SDK and CLI, one language (9 of 15). 20+14+18+12+9 = 73.); Mindee API 68 (Output is the schema you defined, so its size is under your control, and polygons, confidence and raw text are opt-in (20 of 25). Those switches are the only output controls, and results are fetched per job (12 of 20). Problem-details errors with a code per case (16 of 20). No idempotency key on enqueue. Failed jobs and 400s don't use credits, per the 30 September check, and webhooks replace polling (8 of 20). Two required fields, but model_id has to come from the web platform first. Python and Node.js SDKs checked, and the docs list more (12 of 15).)