Pick Extend if
document teams who will burn the 10,000 free Pay-as-you-go credits ($100 at list) on Parse or Extract, then pay $0.01/credit.
Read the Extend pageExtend vs Mistral OCR
Our take
Pick Extend if you're on a document team who will burn the 10,000 free Pay-as-you-go credits ($100 at list) on Parse or Extract, then pay $0.01/credit. Pick Mistral OCR if you're on a app team already on Mistral who will pay $4 / 1k pages. Skip Mistral OCR if you're on a team that want Apache $0 (PaddleOCR) or Azure F0 (Azure Document Intelligence).
Best for
Extend Pages → structured output at a known ¢/page
Mistral OCR A public $/1k OCR SKU on Mistral
Free plan
Extend No free plan
Mistral OCR No free plan
Lowest paid
Extend Pay As You Go $100
Mistral OCR OCR $4
Next step up
Extend
Mistral OCR Annotated pages $5
Coding agent
Extend Parse
Mistral OCR
Watch out
Extend There is no $29 seat
Mistral OCR $4 is per 1,000 pages, not a seat
Last checked
Extend 2026-10-22 · extend.ai/pricing
Mistral OCR 2026-10-28 · docs.mistral.ai/models/ocr-4-1
Which one, then?
Pick Mistral OCR if
app teams already on Mistral who will pay $4 / 1k pages.
Read the Mistral OCR page