Head to head · Document parsing · October 2026 research run

LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction vs OpenDocRouter

LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction scores 69 (B) on agent readiness against OpenDocRouter's 56.6 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. OpenDocRouter leads on agent ergonomics. Both do document parsing. OpenDocRouter is cheaper for document parsing, $0.80 against $15 per 1,000 pages.

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Which one, for what

LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction B

Good for Agents that need Markdown with block-level page coordinates and schema extraction with citations, in the US or EU.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 85 against 43
  • Payments & pricing, 40 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 85 against 65
  • Transparency & trust, 63 against 47

Watch for

The Explore plan has one API key that cannot be deleted or revoked. A leaked key is replaced by emailing support

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

  • Agent ergonomics, 84 against 75

Also in its favour

  • Cheaper for document parsing, $0.80 against $15 per 1,000 pages

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

CategoryWeight this runLandingAI Agentic Document ExtractionOpenDocRouterEdge
Reliability16%208543LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction +42
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28885LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction +3
Agent ergonomics13%16.27584OpenDocRouter +9
Security & auth14%17.54340LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction +3
Payments & pricing10%12.54030LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88565LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction +20
Transparency & trust7%8.86347LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction +16
Negative events≤1500
Total69 · B56.6 · C

Facts side by side

FactLandingAI Agentic Document ExtractionOpenDocRouter
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorLandingAI, Inc.LlamaIndex
Hosted endpointhttps://api.ade.landing.aihttps://www.opendocrouter.ai/v1
TransportsHTTPHTTP
AuthAPI keyAPI key
PricingPay per usePay per use
Price for document parsing$15 per 1,000 pages$0.80 per 1,000 pages
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under LandingAI's terms for Agentic Document Extraction. The Python and TypeScript libraries and the CLI are Apache-2.0, and the skills repository is MITProprietary service under the LlamaIndex Terms of Service with an OpenDocRouter addendum. The Python and TypeScript SDKs are MIT
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
Last release2026-09-222026-10-07
Terms last updatedno date given2026-10-07
Privacy policy last updatedno date given2024-03-30
Customer content may train modelsyesnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyesnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingyesyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textyes
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textyes
Popularitynone127 PyPI/wk

Verdicts

LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction

Parse, Extract and Ground have a public OpenAPI description, Markdown docs, published credit rates and page limits, and a status page showing no incident in 90 days. The Explore plan's single API key cannot be revoked without support, and the published terms let LandingAI train on customer documents unless Zero Data Retention, a Team and Enterprise setting, is on.

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

LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction

  1. Send Authorization: Bearer <key> to https://api.ade.landing.ai/v2/parse. EU keys work only on https://api.ade.eu-west-1.landing.ai
  2. Submit large files to /v2/parse/jobs. Synchronous parse times out at 475 seconds and is capped at the plan's pages-per-minute limit
  3. Leave jobs on the standard tier unless speed matters. It consumes half the credits of priority
  4. Run Extract on the Markdown that Parse returned, then call Ground for page numbers and boxes. Ground consumes no credits
  5. On a 429, read the message. One case clears with backoff and the other means the document is too large for the tier

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, LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction or OpenDocRouter?

LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction scores 69 (B) on agent readiness against OpenDocRouter's 56.6 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. OpenDocRouter leads on agent ergonomics.

Which is cheaper for document parsing, LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction or OpenDocRouter?

OpenDocRouter, at $0.80 per 1,000 pages against $15 per 1,000 pages for LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction. These are the vendors' published prices for the job.

Do LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction and OpenDocRouter need an API key?

Both need an API key.

Can an agent call LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction and OpenDocRouter without installing anything?

Yes. LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction has a hosted endpoint at https://api.ade.landing.ai and OpenDocRouter at https://www.opendocrouter.ai/v1.

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