Head to head · Docs ocr · October 2026 research run
Invofox vs OpenDocRouter
OpenDocRouter scores 56.6 (C) on agent readiness against Invofox's 46.8 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Invofox leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do docs ocr.
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
- Transparency & trust, 55 against 47
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
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
- Reliability, 43 against 30
- Schema & documentation, 85 against 70
- Agent ergonomics, 84 against 64
- Maintenance & community, 65 against 30
Watch for
Launched on 7 October 2026. The domain was registered on 23 September 2026 and both SDKs have one release, 1.0.0
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | Invofox | OpenDocRouter | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 30 | 43 | OpenDocRouter +13 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 70 | 85 | OpenDocRouter +15 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 64 | 84 | OpenDocRouter +20 |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 45 | 40 | Invofox +5 |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 30 | 30 | even |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 30 | 65 | OpenDocRouter +35 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 55 | 47 | Invofox +8 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 46.8 · D | 56.6 · C |
Facts side by side
| Fact | Invofox | OpenDocRouter |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Invofox, Inc. | LlamaIndex |
| Hosted endpoint | https://api.invofox.com | https://www.opendocrouter.ai/v1 |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary hosted service. The n8n community node on GitHub is MIT | Proprietary service under the LlamaIndex Terms of Service with an OpenDocRouter addendum. The Python and TypeScript SDKs are MIT |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-10-07 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2024-03-30 |
| 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 | 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 | none | 127 PyPI/wk |
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.
OpenDocRouter
One endpoint reaches 11 parsing models, each with a dated recipe version, a published token price and a ParseBench score, and failed pages aren't charged. The service launched on 7 October 2026, so it has no status page, incident history, SLA or changelog yet, and no key scopes were found in the reviewed documentation.
Before you call either
Invofox
- Ask the owner for an API key and the Document Type id or alias from app.invofox.com. No API endpoint lists Document Types
- Upload with POST /v1/ingest/uploads as multipart, with
infoas a JSON string. Send"useClassifier": truein place oftypeto have the type detected - Expect 404 from GET /documents/{id} for the first seconds. Poll from 5 seconds with doubling, and stop at approved, pendingCorrection or discarded
- Handle the
file.rejectedwebhook or check the import. A rejected file never produces a document, so polling the document waits indefinitely - Do not retry an upload blindly. There is no idempotency key, so send your own id in
clientDataand look it up withfilterfirst
OpenDocRouter
- Call
GET /v1/modelsfirst, which needs no key, and choose a model byavg_charge_per_page_usdand its ParseBench scores. Send itsidasmodel - Send
cache: trueon any request you might repeat. Without it the markdown exists only in the POST response and a resend is charged as a new request - Raise the SDK timeout above its 60-second default for sync parses. Pages can run for 270 seconds and the SDKs retry a timed-out request twice
- Check every page's
statusbefore using its markdown. A 200 can bepartial, and failed pages can be resent alone withpages - Treat 402 as final until credit is added. The hold is the model's maximum charge per page times the page count, and
GET /v1/creditsshowsavailable_usd
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, Invofox or OpenDocRouter?
OpenDocRouter scores 56.6 (C) on agent readiness against Invofox's 46.8 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Invofox leads on security & auth and transparency & trust.
Do Invofox and OpenDocRouter need an API key?
Both need an API key.
Can an agent call Invofox and OpenDocRouter without installing anything?
Yes. Invofox has a hosted endpoint at https://api.invofox.com and OpenDocRouter at https://www.opendocrouter.ai/v1.
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Machine-readable
- This page as Markdown
/compare/invofox-vs-opendocrouter.md· slim.min.md· JSON.json(or sendAccept: text/markdown) - Each listing in full
/api/v1/tools/invofox.json·/api/v1/tools/opendocrouter.json - From a terminal
anchor compare invofox opendocrouter(the CLI) - Over MCP
compare_tools {"a": "invofox", "b": "opendocrouter"}at/mcp, no key