# LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction vs OpenDocRouter

> LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction scores 69 (B) to OpenDocRouter's 56.6 (C) for document parsing. OpenDocRouter is cheaper for document parsing, $0.80 against $15 per 1,000 pages. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-09

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.

- LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction: grade B, 69/100, rank #199 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/landingai-agentic-document-extraction.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/landingai-agentic-document-extraction.json
- OpenDocRouter: grade C, 56.6/100, rank #630 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/opendocrouter.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/opendocrouter.json
- Best document parsing, OCR and extraction APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/document-extraction/index.md
- All 109 documents comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/document-extraction/index.md

## 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

| Category | Weight | LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction | OpenDocRouter | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 85 | 43 | LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction +42 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 88 | 85 | LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction +3 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 84 | OpenDocRouter +9 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 43 | 40 | LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction +3 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 30 | LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 65 | LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction +20 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 63 | 47 | LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction +16 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **69 · B** | **56.6 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | LandingAI Agentic Document Extraction | OpenDocRouter |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | LandingAI, Inc. | LlamaIndex |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.ade.landing.ai` | `https://www.opendocrouter.ai/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |
| Price for document parsing | $15 per 1,000 pages | $0.80 per 1,000 pages |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary 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 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 | 2026-09-22 | 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 | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | 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

**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.


## For agents

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

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