The short answer
Unstructured is billed per page (~$0.03). It has a free tier: 1,000 pages/mo (hosted free API). Paid usage is quoted by the vendor rather than listed as a public price.
Plans and prices
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Let's Go (Free) | $0 (15,000 pages) | 15,000 free pages with no expiration, full feature access, no commitment |
| Pay-As-You-Go | $0.03 / page | Flat per-page rate for any file type and pipeline; no minimums or hidden fees |
| Business / Enterprise | Custom | Dedicated instance, VPC or multi-tenant SaaS, multi-user, custom SLAs, dedicated support |
How Unstructured bills you
The pricing model is per page (~$0.03). Open-source-rooted ingestion API that normalizes any document into LLM-ready chunks, with a generous free tier and Python-first tooling. Best suited to: document preprocessing for llms/rag.
What to watch for on the bill
- Open-source library can be computationally expensive and slow on long documents requiring OCR
The pricing page we read
Source: https://unstructured.io/pricing. Prices change, so confirm there before you commit.
Compare Unstructured with alternatives
Other document ai & ocr apis: AWS Textract, Google Document AI, Azure AI Document Intelligence, Mindee, Nanonets.
Looking at quality rather than price? See the Unstructured score on APIbenchmarks. Full entry: Unstructured pricing.