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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mindee.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mindee.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Extend API + MCP for payments \u0026 pricing (+5).\n\nPick Mindee API for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Extend API + MCP | Mindee API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 67 | 65 | Extend API + MCP +2 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 86 | Extend API + MCP +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 68 | 68 | even |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 43 | 40 | Extend API + MCP +3 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 25 | Extend API + MCP +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 82 | 85 | Mindee API +3 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 67 | 67 | even |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **62.9 · B** | **61.5 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Extend API + MCP | Mindee API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Extend | Mindee |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.extend.ai` | `https://api-v2.mindee.net/v2` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | none |\n| Tools exposed | 86 | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `ai.extend/extend` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-25 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Popularity | 124k npm/wk, 59k PyPI/wk | 42 stars, 33k npm/wk, 5.5k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Extend API + MCP.** Hosted MCP with OAuth scoped to workspaces and to test or production, and a tools filter with nine groups. Parse is billed on top of Extract, Split and Classify, so Performance Extract costs 5 credits a page.\n\n**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.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Extend API + MCP\n\n1. Connect with `https://mcp.extend.ai/mcp?tools=parse,extract,files` to keep the schema small\n2. Every MCP call names a workspace and TEST or PRODUCTION; start in TEST\n3. Read `retryable` on an error before retrying, and honour `Retry-After` on a 429\n4. Budget 5 credits a page for Performance Extract, since the parse step is billed on top\n5. Sync `POST /extract` blocks up to 5 minutes; use `/extract_runs` and poll or a webhook for long files\n\n### Mindee API\n\n1. Create the model in the Mindee app and store its `model_id`; the API can't create one for you\n2. Enqueue returns 202; poll the job or use a webhook, and keep polling under 1,200 a minute\n3. Send `Authorization: $MINDEE_API_KEY` with no Bearer prefix\n4. Turn on confidence scores only when needed, since they cost 1.5 credits a page instead of 1\n5. Keep schemas to 25 fields or fewer, the documented recommendation\n\n## Other comparisons with Extend API + MCP or Mindee API\n\n- [Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API vs Extend API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-pdf-extract-vs-extend.md)\n- [Extend API + MCP vs LlamaParse API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/extend-vs-llamaparse.md)\n- [Extend API + MCP vs Mistral OCR API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/extend-vs-mistral-ocr.md)\n- [Extend API + MCP vs Nanonets API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/extend-vs-nanonets.md)\n- [Extend API + MCP vs Reducto API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/extend-vs-reducto.md)\n- [Extend API + MCP vs Unstructured API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/extend-vs-unstructured.md)\n- [Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API vs Mindee API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-pdf-extract-vs-mindee.md)\n- [Extend API + MCP vs Veryfi API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/extend-vs-veryfi.md)\n- [LlamaParse API + MCP vs Mindee API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/llamaparse-vs-mindee.md)\n- [Mindee API vs Mistral OCR API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mindee-vs-mistral-ocr.md)\n- [Mindee API vs Nanonets API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mindee-vs-nanonets.md)\n- [Mindee API vs Reducto API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mindee-vs-reducto.md)\n- [Mindee API vs Unstructured API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mindee-vs-unstructured.md)\n- [Mindee API vs Veryfi API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mindee-vs-veryfi.md)\n",
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