# Extend API + MCP vs Google Cloud Document AI (slim)

> Google Cloud Document AI scores 73.9 (BB) to Extend's 62.9 (B) for document parsing. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Google Cloud Document AI scores 73.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Extend API + MCP's 62.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Extend API + MCP leads on schema & documentation and payments & pricing. Both do document parsing.

- Extend API + MCP: B 62.9, rank #414 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/extend.min.md
- Google Cloud Document AI: BB 73.9, rank #82 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-cloud-document-ai.min.md
- Extend API + MCP, good for Teams building production extraction with evaluation sets and versioned processors, and for agents that need to build or tune extractors as well as run them. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 87 against 81; Payments & pricing, 30 against 20. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Google Cloud Document AI, good for Agents already on Google Cloud that need OCR, form and table extraction or chunks for retrieval, with IAM, audit logs and EU processing. Ahead on Reliability, 90 against 67; Security & auth, 80 against 43; Transparency & trust, 90 against 67. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.

| Category | Extend API + MCP | Google Cloud Document AI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 67 | 90 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 68 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 43 | 80 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 82 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 67 | 90 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Extend API + MCP | Google Cloud Document AI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Extend | Google Cloud |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.extend.ai` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Price for document parsing | $6.25 per 1,000 pages | not published |
| Licence | none | Proprietary service under the Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service. The client libraries are Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 86 | none |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| MCP registry | `ai.extend/extend` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-09-25 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-14 | 2026-09-02 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-14 | 2026-09-28 |
| Popularity | 124k npm/wk, 59k PyPI/wk | 499k npm/wk, 793k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | none |