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The project is hosted by the LF AI \u0026 Data Foundation and was started at IBM Research Zurich; no single legal entity publishes it.", "The security policy is on the repository's Security tab with private advisory reporting and an email route; docling-project.github.io has no security.txt.", "docling-project.github.io/docling/llms.txt answered 404 on 6 November 2026." ], "score": 52 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/docling.json", "live": { "slug": "docling", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "docling-project/docling", "version": "v2.148.0", "released": "2026-11-05", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:21:57.627571586Z" }, { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "io.github.docling-project/docling-mcp", "version": "3.5.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T18:16:28.95801333Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "docling", "version": "2.148.0", "released": "2026-11-05", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:21:53.500253508Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "docling-mcp", "version": "3.5.0", "released": "2026-11-04", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:21:54.889201724Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "docling-serve", "version": "1.38.2", "released": "2026-10-27", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:21:55.609213125Z" } ], "githubStars": 70222, "pypiWeekly": 946968, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://docling-project.github.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:37.972746959Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/docling-project/docling/main/CHANGELOG.md", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:20:39.957874821Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "d0ae114890b9" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T18:16:28.95801333Z" } }, "answer": "Docling scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against LlamaParse API + MCP's 62.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. 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The hosted MCP takes OAuth or the same key as a bearer token. EU accounts use api.cloud.eu.llamaindex.ai and mcp.eu.llamaindex.ai, and tokens don't cross regions.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Credits cost $1.50 per 1,000 on Pay as you go and $1.25 per 1,000 on Pro. Pay as you go has no subscription and includes 10,000 free credits a month. Pro is $500 a month with 400,000 credits, Enterprise is custom, and Starter is no longer offered to new customers. Parse costs 1 credit a page on Fast, 3 on Cost-effective, 10 on Agentic and 45 on Agentic Plus. Extract adds 5, 15 or 50 credits a page on top of the parse tier (https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaparse/general/billing/).", "priceSummary": "$1.25 / 1k pages", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 or per-call crypto payment in docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 26, "popularity": { "githubStars": 4267, "npmWeekly": 124970, "pypiWeekly": 767328, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaparse/", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.cloud.llamaindex.ai/api/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "docs.parse", "docs.ocr", "docs.extract", "docs.tables", "docs.chunk", "docs.classify" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "python", "typescript", "webhooks", "async-jobs", "enterprise", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-21", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.2, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 568, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 11, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 40, "reliability": 80, "schema": 82, "security": 53, "transparency": 67 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-04" }, "negative": -6, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-08-12 to 2026-09-08. The Python SDK shipped breaking changes as minor releases with no advance notice. 2.14.0 renamed files.get() to files.content(), and 2.16.0 removed the classify v1 job methods. Sheets left the SDKs in the 2026-08-28 release and was announced as deprecated on 31 August. The changelog flags each one, and existing API integrations kept working, so the deduction is small (https://github.com/run-llama/llama-cloud-py/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md, https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaparse/changelog/)", "2026-10-17. The changelog entry of that day says the `continuous` Extract versions \"have been retired\" and that jobs pinning one must switch to `latest` or a dated release. No earlier notice was found in the changelog for June to October or on the Extract versions page, so requests that worked the day before were refused with notice only on the day (-3) (https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaparse/changelog/2026-10/)" ], "verdict": "Pay as you go includes 10,000 free credits a month with no subscription, rate limits are published per endpoint with backoff guidance, and product-scoped MCP endpoints keep the tool list small. Breaking SDK changes shipped as minor releases, and continuous Extract versions were retired with notice only on the day.", "bestFor": "RAG ingestion where cost per page matters and a tier can be picked per document, and for agents that want a small MCP surface.", "strengths": [ "Pay as you go with 10,000 free credits a month and no subscription", "Per-endpoint rate limits published, with the 429 body and backoff with jitter documented", "Product-scoped MCP endpoints with 1 to 5 tools each, OAuth or API key, NA and EU", "API keys scoped to a project and, since 26 August 2026, able to expire", "Uploads cached 48 hours then deleted, do_not_cache to skip, no training unless opted in" ], "weaknesses": [ "Breaking SDK changes shipped as minor releases (files.get renamed, classify v1 removed)", "Continuous Extract versions were retired on 17 October 2026 with notice only that day", "429 responses carry no Retry-After header, and job creation has no idempotency key", "Agentic Plus parse plus Agentic Plus extract costs 95 credits a page, about $119 per 1,000 pages at Pro's credit price", "No security.txt or published advisories, and the trust centre needs JavaScript" ], "agentNotes": [ "Connect to a product endpoint such as `https://mcp.llamaindex.ai/parse/mcp` instead of the unified one to load 3 tools plus helpers", "API-key MCP callers can't use `getUploadUrl`; upload with `uploadFileByUrl` or connect with OAuth", "Pin a dated or numbered `version` on every parse or extract; `continuous` Extract versions no longer work", "On a 429 back off with jitter; no Retry-After is sent. 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or: npm i @llamaindex/llama-cloud", "http": "curl -X POST https://api.cloud.llamaindex.ai/api/v2/parse -H \"Authorization: Bearer $LLAMA_CLOUD_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"file_id\":\"\u003cfile_id\u003e\",\"tier\":\"agentic\",\"version\":\"latest\"}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http llamaparse https://mcp.llamaindex.ai/mcp" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/docs.parse", "tool": "https://letme.dev/llamaparse" }, "sameCompany": [ "llamaindex" ], "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Parse Fast", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 1.25, "note": "1 credit a page at Pro's $1.25 per 1,000 credits ($1.50 on Pay as you go)" }, { "item": "Parse Cost-effective", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 3.75, "note": "3 credits a page at Pro's credit price" }, { "item": "Parse Agentic", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 12.5, "note": "10 credits a page at Pro's credit price" }, { "item": "Parse Agentic Plus", "unit": "1k-pages", "usd": 56.25, "note": "45 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"name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "Self-hosted rule. Free MIT software with nothing to buy, so 20 + 20 + 20, and no payment protocol (0). 60.", "b": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Credits cost $1.50 per 1,000 on Pay as you go and $1.25 on Pro ($500 a month with 400,000 credits), and credits per page per tier are published in the docs (20). Pay as you go has no subscription and 10,000 free credits a month, and the billing and pricing pages ask for a card only to buy credits or move to Pro (20). A person signs up in a browser (0)." }, "scores": { "a": 60, "b": 40 } }, { "by": 9, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "docling", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "v2.148.0 on 5 November 2026, the day before this check (30). 13 releases from 9 October to 5 November (20). Open issues and pull requests are numerous, an AI triage workflow and PR reminders run, and six maintainers are named; replies not sampled (17 of 25). docling-mcp publishes to the official MCP registry on release under io.github.docling-project, per its workflow and server.json; the registry entry itself was not read (12 of 15). CI, a dependency-update workflow and uv.lock (10). 30+20+17+12+10 = 89.", "b": "Python and TypeScript SDK v2.19.0 tagged on 21 October 2026, 14 days ago, and the newest changelog entry is 17 October (30). SDK tags 2.14.0, 2.14.1, 2.15.0, 2.16.0, 2.17.0, 2.18.0 and 2.19.0 since 6 August, and 26 dated changelog entries from 6 August to 17 October (20). Public changelog and GitHub SDK repositories, issue replies not sampled (10 of 15). Current official SDKs in Python, TypeScript, Go, Java and .NET (15). Release-please, CI and test workflows, but 2.14.1 had to restore API surface deleted by a bad regeneration, and two breaking changes shipped as minor versions (5 of 10)." }, "scores": { "a": 89, "b": 80 } }, { "by": 5, "category": "reliability", "leads": "docling", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Local-software lines, graded on the library with docling-serve and docling-mcp. Installs from PyPI (`docling` 2.148.0, per the PyPI release feed) for Python 3.10 and later on macOS, Linux and Windows (20). Public CI workflows for checks, tests and heavy examples; the pass state of the default branch was not read (20 of 25). About 719 open issues and 223 open pull requests on the repository page against 13 releases in four weeks, many of them fixes; replies not sampled (15 of 25). Semantic-release changelog with Feature and Fix sections and Breaking sections where they apply (15). Version 2.x since 2024 (15). 20+20+15+15+15 = 85.", "b": "Statuspage at llamaindex.statuspage.io with LlamaParse (Global) and LlamaParse (EU) groups, each with API and UI components, and a Docs component (20). The history pages, read on 4 November, list two incidents between 6 August and 4 November, 400 errors for some extract schemas on 29 September (14:19 to 16:04 UTC) and a high error rate for agentic parse in the EU on 17 September (18:48 to 20:30 UTC, labelled major, affecting only the EU API). Both are partial, so minor only (20). The rate-limits page gives per-endpoint caps per organisation, the same on every plan, such as 500 parse jobs per 10 seconds, 50 uploads a second per project and 80 reads or 40 writes a second elsewhere (15). It documents the 429 body, says no `Retry-After` header is sent, and gives exponential backoff with jitter, with the SDKs retrying 429 and 5xx five times by default. No idempotency key or safe-retry guidance for job creation (10). The pricing table lists 99.9% uptime as a platform line, and the Support \u0026 SLAs page says contractual uptime commitments are negotiated in Enterprise agreements, with no SLA terms published (5 of 10). Parse and Extract are GA, with Turbo Extract in beta (10)." }, "scores": { "a": 85, "b": 80 } }, { "by": 5, "category": "schema", "leads": "llamaparse", "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": "OpenAPI spec at api.cloud.llamaindex.ai/api/openapi.json, per the 30 September check (25). llms.txt at developers.llamaindex.ai, per the same check (10). The MCP page says which product endpoint to use and why API-key callers should use uploadFileByUrl instead of getUploadUrl. Tool descriptions themselves not read (12 of 20). Typed requests with a tier field and a version to pin, not re-checked in depth (12 of 15). The 402 is documented, and we didn't find a full error reference (8 of 15). Dated changelog and dated parse versions such as agentic 2026-09-07 (15)." }, "scores": { "a": 77, "b": 82 } }, { "by": 5, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "docling", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "About 25 MCP tools in the default groups (15), selectable as conversion, generation and manipulation groups, with anchor tools to read one part of a document (22 of 25). `max_num_pages`, `max_file_size` and page ranges on conversion, Markdown or JSON export (15 of 20). Errors are exceptions with messages, such as an unknown document key listing the valid ones (12 of 20). readOnlyHint and destructiveHint on the MCP tools, and conversions are repeatable (18 of 20). Sensible defaults and one call to convert; Python only, with a docling-client package for docling-serve (10 of 15). 22+15+12+18+10 = 77.", "b": "The unified MCP endpoint lists 26 tools on the MCP page, which scores 15. Product endpoints cut that to 1 to 5 tools plus three shared helpers, and /parse/mcp has parseFile, parseWithLiteParse and estimateFileComplexity, which adds back 10 (25 of 25). Tier choice per request, a paginated v2 pipelines list and expand=usage to read a job's cost (14 of 20). The 402 message is clear, and other error bodies weren't checked (10 of 20). No idempotency key and no MCP annotations documented. Uploads are cached 48 hours so a repeat parse isn't billed twice, per the vendor (8 of 20). Official SDKs in Python, TypeScript and .NET (since 14 August 2026) (15)." }, "scores": { "a": 77, "b": 72 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "SDK + MCP", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Docling Project (LF AI \u0026 Data Foundation, started at IBM Research Zurich)", "b": "LlamaIndex", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.cloud.llamaindex.ai/api/v2", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "stdio, Streamable HTTP, HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "free", "b": "$1.25 per 1,000 pages", "name": "Price for document parsing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT", "b": "none", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "25", "b": "26", "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": "2026-10-21", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2024-06-07", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2026-08-24", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "not found in the text", "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": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "70k stars, 947k PyPI/wk", "b": "4.3k stars, 125k npm/wk, 767k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3.5/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Docling scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against LlamaParse API + MCP's 62.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. LlamaParse API + MCP leads on schema \u0026 documentation.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Docling or LlamaParse API + MCP?" }, { "answer": "Docling, at free against $1.25 per 1,000 pages for LlamaParse API + MCP. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.", "question": "Which is cheaper for document parsing, Docling or LlamaParse API + MCP?" }, { "answer": "Docling runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. LlamaParse API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cloud.llamaindex.ai/api/v2.", "question": "Can an agent call Docling and LlamaParse API + MCP without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Docling is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for LlamaParse API + MCP.", "question": "Are Docling and LlamaParse API + MCP open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 85 against 80", "Agent ergonomics, 77 against 72", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 89 against 80" ], "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, 82 against 77" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "RAG ingestion where cost per page matters and a tier can be picked per document, and for agents that want a small MCP surface.", "slug": "llamaparse", "watchFor": "Breaking 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"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/llamaparse-vs-mindee.json", "title": "LlamaParse API + MCP vs Mindee API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/llamaparse-vs-mindee" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/llamaparse-vs-veryfi.json", "title": "LlamaParse API + MCP vs Veryfi API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/llamaparse-vs-veryfi" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 5, "docling": 85, "edge": "docling", "key": "reliability", "llamaparse": 80, "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 5, "docling": 77, "edge": "llamaparse", "key": "schema", "llamaparse": 82, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 5, "docling": 77, "edge": "docling", "key": "ergonomics", "llamaparse": 72, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 0, "docling": 53, "edge": "", "key": "security", "llamaparse": 53, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 20, "docling": 60, "edge": "docling", "key": "payments", "llamaparse": 40, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 9, "docling": 89, "edge": "docling", "key": "maintenance", "llamaparse": 80, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 2, "docling": 65, "edge": "llamaparse", "key": "transparency", "llamaparse": 67, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Docling scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against LlamaParse API + MCP's 62.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. 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Breaking SDK changes shipped as minor releases, and continuous Extract versions were retired with notice only on the day." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/docling-vs-llamaparse", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/docling-vs-llamaparse.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/docling-vs-llamaparse.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/docling-vs-llamaparse.min.md" }, "markdown": "Docling scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against LlamaParse API + MCP's 62.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. LlamaParse API + MCP leads on schema \u0026 documentation. 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- LlamaParse API + MCP: grade B, 62.2/100, rank #568 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/llamaparse.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/llamaparse.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- Reliability, 85 against 80\n- Agent ergonomics, 77 against 72\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 89 against 80\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### LlamaParse API + MCP (B)\n\nGood for: RAG ingestion where cost per page matters and a tier can be picked per document, and for agents that want a small MCP surface.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 82 against 77\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: Breaking SDK changes shipped as minor releases (files.get renamed, classify v1 removed)\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- LlamaParse API + MCP (40): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Credits cost $1.50 per 1,000 on Pay as you go and $1.25 on Pro ($500 a month with 400,000 credits), and credits per page per tier are published in the docs (20). Pay as you go has no subscription and 10,000 free credits a month, and the billing and pricing pages ask for a card only to buy credits or move to Pro (20). A person signs up in a browser (0).\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Docling +9\n\n- Docling (89): v2.148.0 on 5 November 2026, the day before this check (30). 13 releases from 9 October to 5 November (20). Open issues and pull requests are numerous, an AI triage workflow and PR reminders run, and six maintainers are named; replies not sampled (17 of 25). docling-mcp publishes to the official MCP registry on release under io.github.docling-project, per its workflow and server.json; the registry entry itself was not read (12 of 15). CI, a dependency-update workflow and uv.lock (10). 30+20+17+12+10 = 89.\n- LlamaParse API + MCP (80): Python and TypeScript SDK v2.19.0 tagged on 21 October 2026, 14 days ago, and the newest changelog entry is 17 October (30). SDK tags 2.14.0, 2.14.1, 2.15.0, 2.16.0, 2.17.0, 2.18.0 and 2.19.0 since 6 August, and 26 dated changelog entries from 6 August to 17 October (20). Public changelog and GitHub SDK repositories, issue replies not sampled (10 of 15). Current official SDKs in Python, TypeScript, Go, Java and .NET (15). Release-please, CI and test workflows, but 2.14.1 had to restore API surface deleted by a bad regeneration, and two breaking changes shipped as minor versions (5 of 10).\n\n### Reliability: Docling +5\n\n- Docling (85): Local-software lines, graded on the library with docling-serve and docling-mcp. Installs from PyPI (`docling` 2.148.0, per the PyPI release feed) for Python 3.10 and later on macOS, Linux and Windows (20). Public CI workflows for checks, tests and heavy examples; the pass state of the default branch was not read (20 of 25). About 719 open issues and 223 open pull requests on the repository page against 13 releases in four weeks, many of them fixes; replies not sampled (15 of 25). Semantic-release changelog with Feature and Fix sections and Breaking sections where they apply (15). Version 2.x since 2024 (15). 20+20+15+15+15 = 85.\n- LlamaParse API + MCP (80): Statuspage at llamaindex.statuspage.io with LlamaParse (Global) and LlamaParse (EU) groups, each with API and UI components, and a Docs component (20). The history pages, read on 4 November, list two incidents between 6 August and 4 November, 400 errors for some extract schemas on 29 September (14:19 to 16:04 UTC) and a high error rate for agentic parse in the EU on 17 September (18:48 to 20:30 UTC, labelled major, affecting only the EU API). Both are partial, so minor only (20). The rate-limits page gives per-endpoint caps per organisation, the same on every plan, such as 500 parse jobs per 10 seconds, 50 uploads a second per project and 80 reads or 40 writes a second elsewhere (15). It documents the 429 body, says no `Retry-After` header is sent, and gives exponential backoff with jitter, with the SDKs retrying 429 and 5xx five times by default. No idempotency key or safe-retry guidance for job creation (10). The pricing table lists 99.9% uptime as a platform line, and the Support \u0026 SLAs page says contractual uptime commitments are negotiated in Enterprise agreements, with no SLA terms published (5 of 10). Parse and Extract are GA, with Turbo Extract in beta (10).\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: LlamaParse API + MCP +5\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- LlamaParse API + MCP (82): OpenAPI spec at api.cloud.llamaindex.ai/api/openapi.json, per the 30 September check (25). llms.txt at developers.llamaindex.ai, per the same check (10). The MCP page says which product endpoint to use and why API-key callers should use uploadFileByUrl instead of getUploadUrl. Tool descriptions themselves not read (12 of 20). Typed requests with a tier field and a version to pin, not re-checked in depth (12 of 15). The 402 is documented, and we didn't find a full error reference (8 of 15). Dated changelog and dated parse versions such as agentic 2026-09-07 (15).\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Docling +5\n\n- Docling (77): About 25 MCP tools in the default groups (15), selectable as conversion, generation and manipulation groups, with anchor tools to read one part of a document (22 of 25). `max_num_pages`, `max_file_size` and page ranges on conversion, Markdown or JSON export (15 of 20). Errors are exceptions with messages, such as an unknown document key listing the valid ones (12 of 20). readOnlyHint and destructiveHint on the MCP tools, and conversions are repeatable (18 of 20). Sensible defaults and one call to convert; Python only, with a docling-client package for docling-serve (10 of 15). 22+15+12+18+10 = 77.\n- LlamaParse API + MCP (72): The unified MCP endpoint lists 26 tools on the MCP page, which scores 15. Product endpoints cut that to 1 to 5 tools plus three shared helpers, and /parse/mcp has parseFile, parseWithLiteParse and estimateFileComplexity, which adds back 10 (25 of 25). Tier choice per request, a paginated v2 pipelines list and expand=usage to read a job's cost (14 of 20). The 402 message is clear, and other error bodies weren't checked (10 of 20). No idempotency key and no MCP annotations documented. Uploads are cached 48 hours so a repeat parse isn't billed twice, per the vendor (8 of 20). Official SDKs in Python, TypeScript and .NET (since 14 August 2026) (15).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Docling | LlamaParse API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 85 | 80 | Docling +5 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 77 | 82 | LlamaParse API + MCP +5 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 77 | 72 | Docling +5 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 53 | 53 | even |\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 | 80 | Docling +9 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 67 | LlamaParse API + MCP +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -8 | -6 | |\n| **Total** | | **64.3 · B** | **62.2 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Docling | LlamaParse API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | SDK + MCP | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Docling Project (LF AI \u0026 Data Foundation, started at IBM Research Zurich) | LlamaIndex |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.cloud.llamaindex.ai/api/v2` |\n| Transports | stdio, Streamable HTTP, HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | None | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| Price for document parsing | free | $1.25 per 1,000 pages |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | none |\n| Tools exposed | 25 | 26 |\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 | 2026-10-21 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2024-06-07 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-08-24 |\n| Customer content may train models | not read yet | not found in the text |\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 | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | yes |\n| Popularity | 70k stars, 947k PyPI/wk | 4.3k stars, 125k npm/wk, 767k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Docling\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### LlamaParse API + MCP\n\n- +2.9 on 4 November 2026 (C to B): new evidence, negative event\n- -0.1 on 28 October 2026: correction\n- +0.1 on 28 October 2026: new evidence\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**LlamaParse API + MCP.** Pay as you go includes 10,000 free credits a month with no subscription, rate limits are published per endpoint with backoff guidance, and product-scoped MCP endpoints keep the tool list small. Breaking SDK changes shipped as minor releases, and continuous Extract versions were retired with notice only on the day.\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### LlamaParse API + MCP\n\n1. Connect to a product endpoint such as `https://mcp.llamaindex.ai/parse/mcp` instead of the unified one to load 3 tools plus helpers\n2. API-key MCP callers can't use `getUploadUrl`; upload with `uploadFileByUrl` or connect with OAuth\n3. Pin a dated or numbered `version` on every parse or extract; `continuous` Extract versions no longer work\n4. On a 429 back off with jitter; no Retry-After is sent. A 429 saying resources are exhausted means wait for running Extract jobs\n5. Treat a 402 as out of credits, not a transient error\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Docling or LlamaParse API + MCP?\n\nDocling scores 64.3 (B) on agent readiness against LlamaParse API + MCP's 62.2 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. LlamaParse API + MCP leads on schema \u0026 documentation.\n\n### Which is cheaper for document parsing, Docling or LlamaParse API + MCP?\n\nDocling, at free against $1.25 per 1,000 pages for LlamaParse API + MCP. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.\n\n### Can an agent call Docling and LlamaParse API + MCP without installing anything?\n\nDocling runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. LlamaParse API + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cloud.llamaindex.ai/api/v2.\n\n### Are Docling and LlamaParse API + MCP open source?\n\nDocling is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for LlamaParse API + MCP.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/docling-vs-llamaparse.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/docling-vs-llamaparse.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"docling\", \"b\": \"llamaparse\"}`. 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