Hyland OnBase vs Unstract

Hyland OnBase is an operational content management product for capturing and governing enterprise documents, automating content-centered workflows, and feeding data to business systems. Automated capture classifies and verifies business data from multiple sources. Configurable workflows, forms, and rules route documents and manage exceptions, while case management can cover documents, emails, tasks, approvals, compliance, and verifications. OnBase also supports secure document retention and destruction through the records lifecycle. Listed controls include OCR, version history, granular access control, audit logs, rule-based classification, legal holds, and disposition workflows. Reporting includes interactive dashboards and audit trails. Hyland says its solutions connect with more than 500 unique applications. Deployment options include on-premises and hosted configurations, and OnBase Mobile is accessed through the Hyland Mobile app for iOS and Android. Pricing is on request; the Base subscription is listed for 100 named users, without a price. A free plan is also listed. Hyland is headquartered in Westlake, Ohio, and was founded in 1991.

Unstract is a document processing platform that extracts structured data from unstructured documents and automates document workflows. Prompt Studio uses natural-language instructions to build extraction projects that can be deployed as APIs or ETL pipelines. Agentic Prompt Studio uses multi-agent pipelines to define schemas, create extraction prompts, and validate results across documents. Unstract describes its document processing as document agnostic and says it works without prior training or templates. Human-in-the-loop workflows can route selected documents for review, approval, and validation. LLMChallenge uses two language models to challenge extracted responses; SinglePass and Summarized Extraction are described as ways to reduce token use. Integrations include Anthropic, OpenAI, and Vertex AI models, along with file systems and databases such as Azure Cloud Storage, PostgreSQL, and S3/Minio. Deployment options are managed cloud, on-premise enterprise, and open-source self-hosted editions. The cloud offering says data is encrypted in transit and at rest and is not used for training. The free Open Source plan is self-hosted and limited to one user. Starter costs $499 a month, billed monthly, with 5,000 pages monthly and a 0.10 USD per-page overage.