# 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. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invofox-vs-opendocrouter
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invofox-vs-opendocrouter.md (~2,350 tokens)
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- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/invofox-vs-opendocrouter.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- 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

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.

- Invofox: grade D, 46.8/100, rank #641 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/invofox.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/invofox.json
- OpenDocRouter: grade C, 56.6/100, rank #489 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/opendocrouter.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/opendocrouter.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
- 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

### OpenDocRouter (C)

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 | Invofox | OpenDocRouter | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 30 | 43 | OpenDocRouter +13 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 85 | OpenDocRouter +15 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 64 | 84 | OpenDocRouter +20 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 45 | 40 | Invofox +5 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 30 | 65 | OpenDocRouter +35 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 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

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

### OpenDocRouter

1. Call `GET /v1/models` first, which needs no key, and choose a model by `avg_charge_per_page_usd` and its ParseBench scores. Send its `id` as `model`
2. Send `cache: true` on any request you might repeat. Without it the markdown exists only in the POST response and a resend is charged as a new request
3. 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
4. Check every page's `status` before using its markdown. A 200 can be `partial`, and failed pages can be resent alone with `pages`
5. 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/credits` shows `available_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.


## For agents

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

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