Airparser vs Extend

Airparser turns emails, PDFs, and other documents into structured fields you define. Its text and vision language models plus AI OCR handle typed text, scans, and handwriting, with recognition in more than 60 languages. Low-confidence results can wait for human review, correction, and approval before export. Parsed information can be downloaded as Excel, CSV, or JSON, or sent to webhooks and services including Zapier, Make, n8n, Google Sheets, and Airtable. Python post-processing is included in plans, and an AI code assistant can draft and test code from plain-language instructions. Airparser works through the web and an API, with workflow routing and cloud deployment. Each parsed email, document, or PDF page consumes one credit, and unused credits expire at the billing period’s end. A Trial plan is listed at free with 20 credits/month and 30 days’ retention. Paid plans start at $33 a month, billed annually.

Extend is document-processing infrastructure for AI applications that need to parse, extract, classify, split or edit files. Workflows join processors into pipelines that can classify documents, route them, validate results and deliver output to a webhook. Parsing can produce clean Markdown or blocks for retrieval-augmented generation and agents, and the pricing page lists support for more than 35 file types across all plans. Developers can use an API, Python, TypeScript, Java and Go SDKs, a browser dashboard, a CLI or an MCP server. The CLI installation script works on macOS and Linux. Deployment choices are managed cloud, BYOC in a customer cloud account, and Hybrid; fully air-gapped deployment is not currently offered. Extend states that it is HIPAA and GDPR compliant, with controls aligned to SOC 2 Type II requirements. Pay As You Go is free with 10,000 credits, then $0.0125 per additional credit; Scale is $500 per month.