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Free MIT software with nothing to buy, so 20 + 20 + 20, and no payment protocol (0). 60.", "b": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Credit price and per-page and per-character credit rates are public (20). 1,000 free credits on signup, and the pricing FAQ says no card is needed (20). A person signs up in a browser and copies the key from the web app (0)." }, "scores": { "a": 60, "b": 40 } }, { "by": 11, "category": "schema", "leads": "landingai-agentic-document-extraction", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "No OpenAPI file is published; docling-serve is a FastAPI app that serves its schema when run, and docling-mcp's tools carry typed inputs with Field descriptions from Pydantic (20 of 25). No llms.txt on the docs site; Markdown docs and AGENTS.md in the repository (5 of 10). MCP tool docstrings say what each tool returns and which other tool supplies its key, with little on when not to use one (14 of 20). Pydantic types with descriptions, few enums (12 of 15). Many runnable examples in docs/examples, with errors raised as Python exceptions that name the fix, such as OperationNotAllowed and unknown document keys listing valid ones (11 of 15). Changelog per release (15). 20+5+14+12+11+15 = 77.", "b": "Public OpenAPI 3.1 description of the nine Gen2 operations, and a second for Gen1 (25). `llms.txt`, `llms-full.txt` and a Markdown twin of every page (10). The overview says when to use Parse, Extract and Ground, and a separate guide compares synchronous calls with jobs on each tier. Operation descriptions in the description file are short, and one list operation has none (15 of 20). Parameters carry defaults, enums and ranges, but the job status filter is a plain string, the description file declares no security scheme, and parse options travel as a form field (10 of 15). Code samples in cURL, Python and TypeScript, and troubleshooting pages for every status code and 422 message. The description file itself lists only 200, 202, 206, 404 and 422 (13 of 15). Versioned `/v2` path, dated model snapshots and a dated changelog with an RSS feed (15). We read the description file and Markdown twins, not the rendered reference." }, "scores": { "a": 77, "b": 88 } }, { "by": 10, "category": "security", "leads": "docling", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "Framework reading. No credentials for local use; docling-serve has one optional shared key, off by default (20 of 30). Remote services are off unless explicitly enabled, local file fetch is guarded by flags, and MCP tools carry read-only and destructive annotations; manipulation tools can delete items and save files (12 of 20). Converted documents are untrusted text and no prompt-injection guidance was found (3 of 15). Logging only, no audit trail (3 of 15). A disclosure policy with private reporting, 28 advisories published in public with fixed versions, under the LF AI \u0026 Data Foundation; no bug bounty (15 of 20). 20+12+3+3+15 = 53. The advisories themselves are the deduction.", "b": "Bearer key in a header, never in the URL. On the Explore plan there is one key that cannot be deleted or revoked, and a leaked key is replaced by emailing support. Team and Enterprise create several named keys and revoke them. No scopes on any plan (15 of 30, between the one-key and revocable-key lines). No read-only or restricted keys. Admin and Developer roles limit who may revoke keys, and an IP allowlist and SSO are Enterprise only (5 of 20). The API returns text from untrusted documents, and no prompt-injection guidance was found in the reviewed documentation (0 of 15). The Usage page logs every job with timestamp, API key, endpoint and credits, searchable and downloadable as CSV (10 of 15). The security page claims SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA with a BAA, third-party penetration tests and immutable audit logs. The libraries' SECURITY.md takes reports through GitHub private reporting. No security.txt and no bug bounty were found, and the trust centre could not be read (13 of 20)." }, "scores": { "a": 53, "b": 43 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "SDK + MCP", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Docling Project (LF AI \u0026 Data Foundation, started at IBM Research Zurich)", "b": "LandingAI, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.ade.landing.ai", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "stdio, Streamable HTTP, HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "free", "b": "$15 per 1,000 pages", "name": "Price for document parsing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT", "b": "Proprietary service under LandingAI's terms for Agentic Document Extraction. The Python and TypeScript libraries and the CLI are Apache-2.0, and the skills repository is MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "25", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "io.github.docling-project/docling-mcp", "b": "not listed", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-11-05", "b": "2026-10-16", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "70k stars, 947k PyPI/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3.8/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction scores 69.1 (B) on agent readiness against Docling's 64.3 (B), and leads in 1 of 7 scored categories. Docling leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Docling or LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction?" }, { "answer": "Docling, at free against $15 per 1,000 pages for LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.", "question": "Which is cheaper for document parsing, Docling or LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction?" }, { "answer": "Docling runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction has a hosted endpoint at https://api.ade.landing.ai.", "question": "Can an agent call Docling and LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Docling is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction.", "question": "Are Docling and LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 53 against 43", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Runs on your own machine", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Self-hosted PDF and Office conversion to Markdown or JSON for RAG and agents that can't send documents out.", "slug": "docling", "watchFor": "28 advisories from 2 June to 23 October 2026, five High, including arbitrary file read and write through the opt-in Tectonic TikZ engine" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 88 against 77" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "No incidents deducted, where Docling loses 8 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Agents that need Markdown with block-level page coordinates and schema extraction with citations, in the US or EU.", "slug": "landingai-agentic-document-extraction", "watchFor": "The Explore plan has one API key that cannot be deleted or revoked. 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Invofox", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/docling-vs-invofox" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invofox-vs-landingai-agentic-document-extraction.json", "title": "Invofox vs LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invofox-vs-landingai-agentic-document-extraction" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/docling-vs-mindee.json", "title": "Docling vs Mindee API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/docling-vs-mindee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/docling-vs-veryfi.json", "title": "Docling vs Veryfi API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/docling-vs-veryfi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/landingai-agentic-document-extraction-vs-mindee.json", "title": "LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction vs Mindee API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/landingai-agentic-document-extraction-vs-mindee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/landingai-agentic-document-extraction-vs-veryfi.json", "title": "LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction vs Veryfi API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/landingai-agentic-document-extraction-vs-veryfi" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 0, "docling": 85, "edge": "", "key": "reliability", "landingai-agentic-document-extraction": 85, "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 11, "docling": 77, "edge": "landingai-agentic-document-extraction", "key": "schema", "landingai-agentic-document-extraction": 88, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 2, "docling": 77, "edge": "docling", "key": "ergonomics", "landingai-agentic-document-extraction": 75, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 10, "docling": 53, "edge": "docling", "key": "security", "landingai-agentic-document-extraction": 43, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 20, "docling": 60, "edge": "docling", "key": "payments", "landingai-agentic-document-extraction": 40, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 4, "docling": 89, "edge": "docling", "key": "maintenance", "landingai-agentic-document-extraction": 85, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 1, "docling": 65, "edge": "docling", "key": "transparency", "landingai-agentic-document-extraction": 64, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction scores 69.1 (B) on agent readiness against Docling's 64.3 (B), and leads in 1 of 7 scored categories. Docling leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do document parsing.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "docling": "An MIT Python library with a CLI, a REST server and a 25-tool MCP server converts PDFs, Office files, HTML and scans into structured documents on the user's own machine, with near-daily releases. Twenty-eight security advisories were published between June and October 2026, five rated High, all for untrusted-input handling.", "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." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/docling-vs-landingai-agentic-document-extraction", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/docling-vs-landingai-agentic-document-extraction.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/docling-vs-landingai-agentic-document-extraction.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/docling-vs-landingai-agentic-document-extraction.min.md" }, "markdown": "LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction scores 69.1 (B) on agent readiness against Docling's 64.3 (B), and leads in 1 of 7 scored categories. Docling leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do document parsing.\n\n- Docling: grade B, 64.3/100, rank #475 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/docling.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/docling.json\n- LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction: grade B, 69.1/100, rank #258 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/landingai-agentic-document-extraction.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/landingai-agentic-document-extraction.json\n- Best document parsing, OCR and extraction APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/document-extraction/index.md\n- All 182 documents comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/document-extraction/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Docling (B)\n\nGood for: Self-hosted PDF and Office conversion to Markdown or JSON for RAG and agents that can't send documents out.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 53 against 43\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: 28 advisories from 2 June to 23 October 2026, five High, including arbitrary file read and write through the opt-in Tectonic TikZ engine\n\n### LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that need Markdown with block-level page coordinates and schema extraction with citations, in the US or EU.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 88 against 77\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- No incidents deducted, where Docling loses 8 points for them\n\nWatch for: The Explore plan has one API key that cannot be deleted or revoked. A leaked key is replaced by emailing support\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Docling +20\n\n- Docling (60): Self-hosted rule. Free MIT software with nothing to buy, so 20 + 20 + 20, and no payment protocol (0). 60.\n- LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction (40): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Credit price and per-page and per-character credit rates are public (20). 1,000 free credits on signup, and the pricing FAQ says no card is needed (20). A person signs up in a browser and copies the key from the web app (0).\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction +11\n\n- Docling (77): No OpenAPI file is published; docling-serve is a FastAPI app that serves its schema when run, and docling-mcp's tools carry typed inputs with Field descriptions from Pydantic (20 of 25). No llms.txt on the docs site; Markdown docs and AGENTS.md in the repository (5 of 10). MCP tool docstrings say what each tool returns and which other tool supplies its key, with little on when not to use one (14 of 20). Pydantic types with descriptions, few enums (12 of 15). Many runnable examples in docs/examples, with errors raised as Python exceptions that name the fix, such as OperationNotAllowed and unknown document keys listing valid ones (11 of 15). Changelog per release (15). 20+5+14+12+11+15 = 77.\n- LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction (88): Public OpenAPI 3.1 description of the nine Gen2 operations, and a second for Gen1 (25). `llms.txt`, `llms-full.txt` and a Markdown twin of every page (10). The overview says when to use Parse, Extract and Ground, and a separate guide compares synchronous calls with jobs on each tier. Operation descriptions in the description file are short, and one list operation has none (15 of 20). Parameters carry defaults, enums and ranges, but the job status filter is a plain string, the description file declares no security scheme, and parse options travel as a form field (10 of 15). Code samples in cURL, Python and TypeScript, and troubleshooting pages for every status code and 422 message. The description file itself lists only 200, 202, 206, 404 and 422 (13 of 15). Versioned `/v2` path, dated model snapshots and a dated changelog with an RSS feed (15). We read the description file and Markdown twins, not the rendered reference.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Docling +10\n\n- Docling (53): Framework reading. No credentials for local use; docling-serve has one optional shared key, off by default (20 of 30). Remote services are off unless explicitly enabled, local file fetch is guarded by flags, and MCP tools carry read-only and destructive annotations; manipulation tools can delete items and save files (12 of 20). Converted documents are untrusted text and no prompt-injection guidance was found (3 of 15). Logging only, no audit trail (3 of 15). A disclosure policy with private reporting, 28 advisories published in public with fixed versions, under the LF AI \u0026 Data Foundation; no bug bounty (15 of 20). 20+12+3+3+15 = 53. The advisories themselves are the deduction.\n- LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction (43): Bearer key in a header, never in the URL. On the Explore plan there is one key that cannot be deleted or revoked, and a leaked key is replaced by emailing support. Team and Enterprise create several named keys and revoke them. No scopes on any plan (15 of 30, between the one-key and revocable-key lines). No read-only or restricted keys. Admin and Developer roles limit who may revoke keys, and an IP allowlist and SSO are Enterprise only (5 of 20). The API returns text from untrusted documents, and no prompt-injection guidance was found in the reviewed documentation (0 of 15). The Usage page logs every job with timestamp, API key, endpoint and credits, searchable and downloadable as CSV (10 of 15). The security page claims SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA with a BAA, third-party penetration tests and immutable audit logs. The libraries' SECURITY.md takes reports through GitHub private reporting. No security.txt and no bug bounty were found, and the trust centre could not be read (13 of 20).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Docling | LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 85 | 85 | even |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 77 | 88 | LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction +11 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 77 | 75 | Docling +2 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 53 | 43 | Docling +10 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 40 | Docling +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 89 | 85 | Docling +4 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 64 | Docling +1 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -8 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **64.3 · B** | **69.1 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Docling | LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | SDK + MCP | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Docling Project (LF AI \u0026 Data Foundation, started at IBM Research Zurich) | LandingAI, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.ade.landing.ai` |\n| Transports | stdio, Streamable HTTP, HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | None | API key |\n| Pricing | Free | Pay per use |\n| Price for document parsing | free | $15 per 1,000 pages |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Proprietary service under LandingAI's terms for Agentic Document Extraction. The Python and TypeScript libraries and the CLI are Apache-2.0, and the skills repository is MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 25 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.docling-project/docling-mcp` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-11-05 | 2026-10-16 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not read yet | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 70k stars, 947k PyPI/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.8/5 (4) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Docling\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction\n\n- +0.1 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Docling.** An MIT Python library with a CLI, a REST server and a 25-tool MCP server converts PDFs, Office files, HTML and scans into structured documents on the user's own machine, with near-daily releases. Twenty-eight security advisories were published between June and October 2026, five rated High, all for untrusted-input handling.\n\n**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.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Docling\n\n1. Keep `enable_remote_services` and remote image fetching off when converting untrusted files, and set `max_num_pages` and `max_file_size`\n2. Upgrade to v2.148.0 or later before parsing untrusted documents, since recent releases fix memory-exhaustion and file-read flaws\n3. Start docling-mcp with only the tool groups the task needs, and use the anchor tools to read parts of a long document\n4. Treat converted text as untrusted input, never as instructions\n5. Set DOCLING_SERVE_API_KEY before exposing docling-serve beyond localhost\n\n### LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction\n\n1. Send `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e` to `https://api.ade.landing.ai/v2/parse`. EU keys work only on `https://api.ade.eu-west-1.landing.ai`\n2. 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\n3. Leave jobs on the `standard` tier unless speed matters. It consumes half the credits of `priority`\n4. Run Extract on the Markdown that Parse returned, then call Ground for page numbers and boxes. Ground consumes no credits\n5. On a 429, read the message. One case clears with backoff and the other means the document is too large for the tier\n6. Pin `model` on Extract (`extract-20260819` or `extract-20260903`). The default moved on 16 October 2026 and can move again\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Docling or LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction?\n\nLandingAI Agentic Document Extraction scores 69.1 (B) on agent readiness against Docling's 64.3 (B), and leads in 1 of 7 scored categories. Docling leads on security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Which is cheaper for document parsing, Docling or LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction?\n\nDocling, at free against $15 per 1,000 pages for LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.\n\n### Can an agent call Docling and LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction without installing anything?\n\nDocling runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction has a hosted endpoint at https://api.ade.landing.ai.\n\n### Are Docling and LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction open source?\n\nDocling is open source (MIT). 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