# Google Cloud Document AI vs OpenDocRouter (slim)

> Google Cloud Document AI scores 73.9 (BB) to OpenDocRouter's 56.6 (C) 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 OpenDocRouter's 56.6 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. OpenDocRouter leads on agent ergonomics and payments & pricing. Both do document parsing.

- Google Cloud Document AI: BB 73.9, rank #82 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-cloud-document-ai.min.md
- OpenDocRouter: C 56.6, rank #630 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/opendocrouter.min.md
- 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 43; Security & auth, 80 against 40; Maintenance & community, 80 against 65; Transparency & trust, 90 against 47. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.
- OpenDocRouter, good for Agents that need page-level markdown from PDFs and images and want to choose or compare models on price and published benchmark scores with one key. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 84 against 70; Payments & pricing, 30 against 20. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | Google Cloud Document AI | OpenDocRouter |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 90 | 43 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 70 | 84 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 80 | 40 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 65 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 90 | 47 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Google Cloud Document AI | OpenDocRouter |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Google Cloud | LlamaIndex |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://www.opendocrouter.ai/v1` |
| Auth | OAuth | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Price for document parsing | not published | $0.80 per 1,000 pages |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service. The client libraries are Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under the LlamaIndex Terms of Service with an OpenDocRouter addendum. The Python and TypeScript SDKs are MIT |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-02 | 2026-10-07 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-28 | 2024-03-30 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 499k npm/wk, 793k PyPI/wk | 127 PyPI/wk |