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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/unstructured.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/unstructured.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Mindee API for reliability (+38), schema \u0026 documentation (+35), agent ergonomics (+10), maintenance \u0026 community (+5), transparency \u0026 trust (+15).\n\nPick Unstructured API + MCP for payments \u0026 pricing (+15).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Mindee API | Unstructured API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 65 | 27 | Mindee API +38 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 86 | 51 | Mindee API +35 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 68 | 58 | Mindee API +10 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 40 | 42 | Unstructured API + MCP +2 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 40 | Unstructured API + MCP +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 80 | Mindee API +5 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 67 | 52 | Mindee API +15 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **61.5 · C** | **47 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Mindee API | Unstructured API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Mindee | Unstructured |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api-v2.mindee.net/v2` | `https://transform.unstructured.io/api/v2` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.unstructured/transform` |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Popularity | 42 stars, 33k npm/wk, 5.5k PyPI/wk | 16k stars, 385 npm/wk, 612k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 2.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**Unstructured API + MCP.** Apache-2.0 library partitions 45+ file types locally at no cost, tagged 11 times since 3 July. No status page, no published rate limits and no SLA.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Mindee API\n\n1. Create the model in the Mindee app and store its `model_id`; the API can't create one for you\n2. Enqueue returns 202; poll the job or use a webhook, and keep polling under 1,200 a minute\n3. Send `Authorization: $MINDEE_API_KEY` with no Bearer prefix\n4. Turn on confidence scores only when needed, since they cost 1.5 credits a page instead of 1\n5. Keep schemas to 25 fields or fewer, the documented recommendation\n\n### Unstructured API + MCP\n\n1. For local ingestion, `pip install \"unstructured[all-docs]\"` and call `partition()`; no key needed, and set `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` to stop telemetry\n2. Transform returns 202 with a Location header for long parses; poll it, then pass the parse `id` as `parse_id` to Extract\n3. Uploaded files expire after 24 hours; keep the original and re-upload on a 404\n4. Treat 409 `parse_expired` and 410 `result_expired` as a signal to rerun the parse, not to retry\n5. Check for an existing job ID before resubmitting, since there's no idempotency key\n\n## Other comparisons with Mindee API or Unstructured API + MCP\n\n- [Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API vs Unstructured API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-pdf-extract-vs-unstructured.md)\n- [Extend API + MCP vs Unstructured API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/extend-vs-unstructured.md)\n- [LlamaParse API + MCP vs Unstructured API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/llamaparse-vs-unstructured.md)\n- [Mistral OCR API vs Unstructured API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-ocr-vs-unstructured.md)\n- [Nanonets API + MCP vs Unstructured API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanonets-vs-unstructured.md)\n- [Reducto API + MCP vs Unstructured API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reducto-vs-unstructured.md)\n- [Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API vs Mindee API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/adobe-pdf-extract-vs-mindee.md)\n- [Extend API + MCP vs Mindee API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/extend-vs-mindee.md)\n- [LlamaParse API + MCP vs Mindee API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/llamaparse-vs-mindee.md)\n- [Mindee API vs Mistral OCR API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mindee-vs-mistral-ocr.md)\n- [Mindee API vs Nanonets API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mindee-vs-nanonets.md)\n- [Mindee API vs Reducto API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mindee-vs-reducto.md)\n- [Mindee API vs Veryfi API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mindee-vs-veryfi.md)\n- [Unstructured API + MCP vs Veryfi API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/unstructured-vs-veryfi.md)\n",
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