LlamaParse: Pricing, Features & Alternatives

LlamaParse is the document parsing service in LlamaCloud, from the team behind the LlamaIndex framework. It turns PDFs, Office files, spreadsheets, images and audio into clean Markdown or JSON, with tables and layout preserved, ready to chunk and embed. Each document runs through one of four tiers: Fast for plain text, Cost-effective for most business documents, and Agentic and Agentic Plus, which use LLMs and vision models for complex layouts, charts and scans. The same credits pay for Extract (structured fields from a schema), Classify and Split.

Credits cost $1.25 per 1,000. Parsing a page costs 1 credit on Fast, 3 on Cost-effective, 10 on Agentic and 45 on Agentic Plus, so 1,000 pages run from about $1.25 to $56. Free gives 10,000 credits a month, Starter is $50 a month with 40,000 included, and Pro is $500 with 400,000. Re-parsing the same file within 48 hours is free. LiteParse is a separate open-source parser that runs without a vision model. As of October 2026.