# OpenDocRouter vs Veryfi API + MCP

> OpenDocRouter scores 56.6 (C) on agent readiness against Veryfi API + MCP's 55.2 (C), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Veryfi API + MCP leads on reliability, payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do docs ocr. Category scores, facts…

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- Updated: 2026-10-08

OpenDocRouter scores 56.6 (C) on agent readiness against Veryfi API + MCP's 55.2 (C), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Veryfi API + MCP leads on reliability, payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do docs ocr.

- OpenDocRouter: grade C, 56.6/100, rank #434 of 629. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/opendocrouter.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/opendocrouter.json
- Veryfi API + MCP: grade C, 55.2/100, rank #456 of 629. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/veryfi.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/veryfi.json

## Which one, for what

### 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:
- Schema & documentation, 85 against 50
- Agent ergonomics, 84 against 75

Watch for: Launched on 7 October 2026. The domain was registered on 23 September 2026 and both SDKs have one release, 1.0.0

### Veryfi API + MCP (C)

Good for: Expense, accounts-payable and lending flows that need line items from receipts, invoices and bank statements at a per-document price.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 55 against 43
- Payments & pricing, 40 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 78 against 65
- Transparency & trust, 58 against 47

Also in its favour:
- Runs on your own machine
- Free to start without a card

Watch for: API outage on 29 September and degraded, incomplete extraction on 1 October


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | OpenDocRouter | Veryfi API + MCP | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 43 | 55 | Veryfi API + MCP +12 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 50 | OpenDocRouter +35 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 84 | 75 | OpenDocRouter +9 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 40 | 40 | even |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 40 | Veryfi API + MCP +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 78 | Veryfi API + MCP +13 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 47 | 58 | Veryfi API + MCP +11 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **56.6 · C** | **55.2 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | OpenDocRouter | Veryfi API + MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | LlamaIndex | Veryfi |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://www.opendocrouter.ai/v1` | `https://api.veryfi.com/api/v8/partner` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the LlamaIndex Terms of Service with an OpenDocRouter addendum. The Python and TypeScript SDKs are MIT | MIT (MCP server and SDKs) |
| Tools exposed | none | 1 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-15 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-07 | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-03-30 | 2026-07-10 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 127 PyPI/wk | 31 stars, 5.7k npm/wk, 17k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |

## Verdicts

**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.

**Veryfi API + MCP.** Typed fields and line items for receipts, invoices, cheques, bank statements and tax forms. API outage on 29 September and degraded, incomplete extraction on 1 October.

## Before you call either

### 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`

### Veryfi API + MCP

1. Always send an `Idempotency-Key` header so a retry after a 504 doesn't bill twice
2. Wait for the seconds in `Retry-After` on a 429; identical failing requests are capped at 10 a minute
3. Set the `CLIENT-ID` header on every call
4. Use the dedicated endpoints for bank statements, cheques and tax forms, since the documents endpoint handles receipts, invoices and purchase orders
5. Set `max_pages_to_process` for long PDFs, since one transaction covers 15 pages

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, OpenDocRouter or Veryfi API + MCP?

OpenDocRouter scores 56.6 (C) on agent readiness against Veryfi API + MCP's 55.2 (C), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Veryfi API + MCP leads on reliability, payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust.

### Do OpenDocRouter and Veryfi API + MCP need an API key?

Both need an API key.

### Can an agent call OpenDocRouter and Veryfi API + MCP without installing anything?

Yes. OpenDocRouter has a hosted endpoint at https://www.opendocrouter.ai/v1 and Veryfi API + MCP at https://api.veryfi.com/api/v8/partner.


## For agents

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

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