Azure Document Intelligence
Azure Document Intelligence is Microsoft’s document-extract API, opened from Content Understanding Studio: pick Document Intelligence or the multimodal…
OUR TAKE
Pick Azure Document Intelligence for Azure shops who will stay on F0 or already have an agreement. Paid HTML hid $.
Good fit
Azure shops who will stay on F0 or already have an agreement.
Poor fit
Indie builders who want a $50 Cloud parse card (LlamaParse) without an Azure subscription.
F0 Free · Custom neural training $3/hour
USD, before tax · Checked 2026-10-28 · azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details
OUR TAKE
Pick Azure Document Intelligence for Azure shops who will stay on F0 or already have an agreement. Paid HTML hid $. Cite F0 and the $3 training hour, then confirm at checkout.
Good fit
Azure shops who will stay on F0 or already have an agreement.
Poor fit
Indie builders who want a $50 Cloud parse card (LlamaParse) without an Azure subscription.
F0 Free · Custom neural training $3/hour
USD, before tax · Checked 2026-10-28 · azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details
What it costs
USD, before tax · Checked 2026-10-28 · azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details
F0 Free
500 pages / month
$0
S0 Read / Prebuilt / Layout / Custom extract / Classify / Query fields
Not published by the vendor
Not published by the vendor
Custom neural training
first 10 hours free; then / hour
$3/hour
Re
Not published by the vendor
Not published by the vendor
Checked 2026-10-28·azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details
Before you pay
Good fit
Azure shops who will stay on F0 or already have an agreement.
Poor fit
Indie builders who want a $50 Cloud parse card (LlamaParse) without an Azure subscription.
Watch out
Paid HTML hid $. Cite F0 and the $3 training hour, then confirm at checkout.
Instead, try
AWS Textract if DetectDocumentText $1.50 / 1k with a public table; Google Document AI if Enterprise OCR first 1,000 pages $0, then $1.50 / 1k
Compare Azure Document Intelligence with
Limits, in full
- 01
Paid HTML hid $. Cite F0 and the $3 training hour, then confirm at checkout.
- 02
F0 is 500 pages, not a production invoice line.
- 03
Not a consumer PDF chat. See PDF.ai for that .
If Azure Document Intelligence isn't it
Why: DetectDocumentText $1.50 / 1k with a public table.
Free· paid from$1.50
Forms + Tables on the same page addChecked 2026-10-28·aws.amazon.com/textract/pricing
vs Azure Document Intelligence
Why: Enterprise OCR first 1,000 pages $0, then $1.50 / 1k.
Paid only$0.00
Try Document AI is a demoChecked 2026-10-28·cloud.google.com/document-ai/pricing
vs Azure Document Intelligence
Why: Studio parse without an Azure account.
Paid only$150
There is no $29 seat cardChecked 2026-10-22·reducto.ai/pricing
vs Azure Document IntelligenceLimits & alternatives3 limits · AWS Textract, Google Document AI, Reducto instead
Limits, in full
- 01
Paid HTML hid $. Cite F0 and the $3 training hour, then confirm at checkout.
- 02
F0 is 500 pages, not a production invoice line.
- 03
Not a consumer PDF chat. See PDF.ai for that .
If Azure Document Intelligence isn't it
Why: DetectDocumentText $1.50 / 1k with a public table.
Free· paid from$1.50
Forms + Tables on the same page addChecked 2026-10-28·aws.amazon.com/textract/pricing
vs Azure Document IntelligenceWhy: Enterprise OCR first 1,000 pages $0, then $1.50 / 1k.
Paid only$0.00
Try Document AI is a demoChecked 2026-10-28·cloud.google.com/document-ai/pricing
vs Azure Document IntelligenceWhy: Studio parse without an Azure account.
Paid only$150
There is no $29 seat cardChecked 2026-10-22·reducto.ai/pricing
vs Azure Document Intelligence