* * * MISTRAL OCR PRICING * * *
Mistral OCR Pricing, Decoded.
As of August 2026, Mistral OCR lists at about $1 per 1,000 pages, roughly $0.50 on batch. That's genuinely cheap. PennyOCR is $0.75 per 1,000 — synchronous, no batch queue — with the first 100 pages free every month and prepaid credits so the spend is capped by design.
START FREE — 100 PAGES
$0.75 / 1,000 PAGES
1,333 PAGES PER DOLLAR · NO CREDIT CARD
01 / TRY IT
ONE ENDPOINT.
POST a file, get JSON back — the extracted text, per page and joined. PDF, PNG, JPEG, WebP or TIFF.
curl https://api.pennyocr.com/v1/ocr \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $PENNYOCR_API_KEY" \
-F "file=@invoice.pdf"
# $0.75 per 1,000 pages, first 100 free02 / USE CASES
THE MATH.
100K PAGES
Mistral ~$100 (sync) / ~$50 (batch, async). PennyOCR $75, always synchronous.
FREE TIER
PennyOCR: 100 pages/month forever, no card. Check Mistral's current trial terms — they change.
SPEND CONTROL
Prepaid credits mean a runaway loop stops at your balance, not at your card limit.
HIDDEN COSTS
Neither of us charges extra for tables — unlike the big clouds, where table extraction is a separate $10–15/1k feature.
03 / PRICE CHECK
HALF THE PRICE OF THE BIG CLOUDS.
Per 1,000 pages, public list prices, first tier.
PENNYOCR$0.75
AWS TEXTRACT$1.50
GOOGLE CLOUD VISION$1.50
AZURE DOC INTELLIGENCE$1.50
YOU KEEP50%
ARE THESE NUMBERS CURRENT?
List prices as of August 2026 — verify on mistral.ai before deciding. Ours is on this page and /pricing.txt, and it doesn't have tiers to decode.
DOES CHEAPER MEAN WORSE?
We publish our benchmark (99.5% measured character accuracy) and give you 100 pages to verify. Cheap is a supply-chain choice, not a quality one.
WHAT'S THE CATCH?
We're a young product with one endpoint. If you need annotations or a big-vendor SLA today, we're honest about that — read /docs and decide.
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