Cloudmersive OCR API vs Reducto

Cloudmersive OCR API converts scanned documents and photos of documents or receipts into text using deep-learning OCR. It lists support for more than 90 languages, including English, simplified and traditional Chinese, French, Spanish, German, and Italian. For document and receipt photos, the API can locate the item and correct skew or rotation before recognition. Receipt extraction can return business name, address, phone number, total, and date. Image and photo endpoints offer Basic, Normal, and Advanced recognition modes; an OCR task may consume multiple API calls, including when processing a multipage PDF. The free tier costs nothing and includes 600 calls monthly, one call per second, and a 3.5 MB maximum file size. Using a free-tier key with OCR endpoints requires adding a credit card, and the free tier allows one simultaneous request. Paid plans start at $19.99 a month. Deployment options include public cloud, dedicated managed instances, private cloud, on-premises, PaaS, and government cloud. Cloudmersive says its stateless APIs do not retain payload data after a transaction and its endpoints use HTTPS with TLS 1.2 or later.

Reducto provides document parsing, extraction, splitting, classification, and editing to turn files into structured data with citations. Its r-1 parsing model handles layout, tables, figures, and formatting, returning granular citations. The platform supports more than 30 file types, including PDFs, images, spreadsheets, slides, and text documents; its multilingual parsing covers more than 100 languages, including mixed-language documents. Teams can build document pipelines with an API, Python, Node.js and Go SDKs, a CLI, an MCP server, or the visual Studio tool. The MCP server is listed as working with Claude, Cursor, and VS Code. Standard includes 150 USD in free usage, then pay-as-you-go pricing based on products and pages processed: r-1 Parse is 10 USD per 1,000 pages and Extract is 20 USD per 1,000 pages. Reducto states that it is SOC 2 Type II audited and HIPAA compliant. Growth and Enterprise have custom pricing; Enterprise offers VPC and on-prem deployments, and both tiers include a zero data retention agreement.