LlamaIndex evals 14 document extractors: paying 5x more doesn't buy better accuracy
llama_index · x · 2026-09-05
LlamaIndex benchmarked 14 frontier document extraction systems across 370 enterprise documents, plotting accuracy against per-page cost. The headline finding: higher cost does not equal better extraction.
- Agentic Plus achieved the highest accuracy overall at less than 1/3 the cost of the runner-up.
- The Agentic and Cost Effective configurations routinely beat systems charging several times more per page.
The takeaway for practitioners: pick extraction models by measured accuracy-per-dollar, not price. The post doubles as promotion for LlamaParse's Extract feature, which comes with 10,000 free credits on signup.
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