# Invofox vs Mindee API

> Mindee API scores 61.3 (C) on agent readiness against Invofox's 46.8 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Invofox leads on security & auth and payments & pricing. Both do docs extract. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- Updated: 2026-10-08

Mindee API scores 61.3 (C) on agent readiness against Invofox's 46.8 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Invofox leads on security & auth and payments & pricing. Both do docs extract.

- Invofox: grade D, 46.8/100, rank #557 of 629. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/invofox.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/invofox.json
- Mindee API: grade C, 61.3/100, rank #325 of 629. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mindee.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mindee.json

## Which one, for what

### Invofox (D)

Good for: Teams that process a known set of business documents (invoices, payslips, bank statements, mortgage forms) at volume and can receive webhooks.

Ahead on:
- Security & auth, 45 against 40
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 25

Also in its favour:
- Free to start without a card

Watch for: No status page found. status.invofox.com does not resolve, and neither the site nor the docs link to one

### Mindee API (C)

Good for: Teams with a fixed set of document types (invoices, receipts, IDs) who want short retention and EU processing.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 65 against 30
- Schema & documentation, 86 against 70
- Maintenance & community, 85 against 30
- Transparency & trust, 65 against 55

Watch for: Every call needs a model_id created in the web platform first


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Invofox | Mindee API | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 30 | 65 | Mindee API +35 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 86 | Mindee API +16 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 64 | 68 | Mindee API +4 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 45 | 40 | Invofox +5 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 25 | Invofox +5 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 30 | 85 | Mindee API +55 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 55 | 65 | Mindee API +10 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **46.8 · D** | **61.3 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Invofox | Mindee API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Invofox, Inc. | Mindee |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.invofox.com` | `https://api-v2.mindee.net/v2` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service. The n8n community node on GitHub is MIT | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2025-06-23 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 42 stars, 33k npm/wk, 5.5k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |

## Verdicts

**Invofox.** Three public OpenAPI 3.1 files, llms.txt and Markdown docs describe an asynchronous upload and webhook flow, and the free plan covers 500 pages without a card. No status page, rate limit numbers, changelog or official SDK were found, and documents are retained by default, with zero retention limited to Scale and Enterprise.

**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.

## Before you call either

### Invofox

1. Ask the owner for an API key and the Document Type id or alias from app.invofox.com. No API endpoint lists Document Types
2. Upload with POST /v1/ingest/uploads as multipart, with `info` as a JSON string. Send `"useClassifier": true` in place of `type` to have the type detected
3. Expect 404 from GET /documents/{id} for the first seconds. Poll from 5 seconds with doubling, and stop at approved, pendingCorrection or discarded
4. Handle the `file.rejected` webhook or check the import. A rejected file never produces a document, so polling the document waits indefinitely
5. Do not retry an upload blindly. There is no idempotency key, so send your own id in `clientData` and look it up with `filter` first

### Mindee API

1. Create the model in the Mindee app and store its `model_id`; the API can't create one for you
2. Enqueue returns 202; poll the job or use a webhook, and keep polling under 1,200 a minute
3. Send `Authorization: $MINDEE_API_KEY` with no Bearer prefix
4. Turn on confidence scores only when needed, since they cost 1.5 credits a page instead of 1
5. Keep schemas to 25 fields or fewer, the documented recommendation

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Invofox or Mindee API?

Mindee API scores 61.3 (C) on agent readiness against Invofox's 46.8 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Invofox leads on security & auth and payments & pricing.

### Do Invofox and Mindee API need an API key?

Both need an API key.

### Can an agent call Invofox and Mindee API without installing anything?

Yes. Invofox has a hosted endpoint at https://api.invofox.com and Mindee API at https://api-v2.mindee.net/v2.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invofox-vs-mindee.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invofox-vs-mindee.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "invofox", "b": "mindee"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare invofox mindee`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/invofox.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mindee.json

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