ExtractFoxNanonets alternatives in 2026
The best Nanonets alternatives are ExtractFox for a single upload-and-extract step with a flat quota ($9/month for 100 files, or $5 once for 50), Parseur and Parsio for parsing emails and documents into Google Sheets or Zapier (from $49/month for 100 pages and $24/month billed yearly for 100 credits), Docparser for rule-based parsers ($39/month for 100 documents), and Amazon Textract for developers who want a per-page API ($1.50 per 1,000 pages for plain text, $15 for tables). Nanonets itself gives $50 in free credits, then bills $0.02 to $0.30 per workflow block run.
By ExtractFox team · Prices checked on each vendor's own pricing page · Updated
Nanonets and its alternatives side by side
| Tool | Paid plans start at | Free | What you pay for | Setup | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ExtractFox | $9/mo for 100, or $5 once for 50 | 2 extractions without signup, then 5/month with a free account | 1 file, any page count (PDF up to 50 MB) | None: pick a document type or describe the fields | PDFs, scans and photos to Excel, CSV or JSON without templates |
| Parseur | $49/mo for 100 pages | 20 pages/month | 1 PDF page; an email or spreadsheet counts as 1 | AI engine, or a template per layout | Emails and PDFs into Google Sheets, Zapier, Make or webhooks |
| Parsio | $24/mo billed yearly for 100 credits ($29 monthly) | 30 credits/month, no card | 1 credit per page (template), 2 (GPT parser), 3 (AI parser) | Choose a parser; GPT parser is set up with a prompt | Emails and documents into Google Sheets, Zapier, Make or n8n |
| Docparser | $39/mo for 100 documents ($32.50 billed yearly) | 14-day trial, no card | 1 document of up to 5 pages | Create a parser and its parsing rules | Recurring layouts you tune once, with Zapier and webhooks |
| Amazon Textract | $1.50 per 1,000 pages (text only) | 3 months: 1,000 text pages and 100 table, form or expense pages a month | 1 page, per feature | Code against the AWS API | Developers building their own pipeline on AWS |
| Nanonets | $100/mo for 100 credits after $50 free | $50 in credits, no card | Per block run: $0.02, $0.10 or $0.30 | Build a workflow from blocks | Multi-step workflows: classify, extract, validate, route |
- Paid plans start at
- $9/mo for 100, or $5 once for 50
- Free
- 2 extractions without signup, then 5/month with a free account
- What you pay for
- 1 file, any page count (PDF up to 50 MB)
- Setup
- None: pick a document type or describe the fields
- Best for
- PDFs, scans and photos to Excel, CSV or JSON without templates
- Paid plans start at
- $49/mo for 100 pages
- Free
- 20 pages/month
- What you pay for
- 1 PDF page; an email or spreadsheet counts as 1
- Setup
- AI engine, or a template per layout
- Best for
- Emails and PDFs into Google Sheets, Zapier, Make or webhooks
- Paid plans start at
- $24/mo billed yearly for 100 credits ($29 monthly)
- Free
- 30 credits/month, no card
- What you pay for
- 1 credit per page (template), 2 (GPT parser), 3 (AI parser)
- Setup
- Choose a parser; GPT parser is set up with a prompt
- Best for
- Emails and documents into Google Sheets, Zapier, Make or n8n
- Paid plans start at
- $39/mo for 100 documents ($32.50 billed yearly)
- Free
- 14-day trial, no card
- What you pay for
- 1 document of up to 5 pages
- Setup
- Create a parser and its parsing rules
- Best for
- Recurring layouts you tune once, with Zapier and webhooks
- Paid plans start at
- $1.50 per 1,000 pages (text only)
- Free
- 3 months: 1,000 text pages and 100 table, form or expense pages a month
- What you pay for
- 1 page, per feature
- Setup
- Code against the AWS API
- Best for
- Developers building their own pipeline on AWS
- Paid plans start at
- $100/mo for 100 credits after $50 free
- Free
- $50 in credits, no card
- What you pay for
- Per block run: $0.02, $0.10 or $0.30
- Setup
- Build a workflow from blocks
- Best for
- Multi-step workflows: classify, extract, validate, route
Try ExtractFox on your own file
Two extractions without an account. Nothing to set up.
What Nanonets does
Nanonets is a document workflow builder: you chain blocks (formatting, classification, validation, extraction) and each run of a block bills separately, $0.02 for simple operations, $0.10 for standard AI and $0.30 for complex AI. New accounts get $50 in credits with no card; the Starter plan then lists $100 a month for 100 credits. Nanonets puts a typical invoice at 4 to 6 blocks, under $2 an invoice. Growth and Enterprise are priced by quote.
The alternatives
1. ExtractFox
A browser tool and REST API that reads PDFs, scans and photos with a multimodal model and returns a table you can download as Excel, CSV or JSON. There are no templates or parsers to set up, and an extraction counts per file, not per page. It doesn't parse email inboxes and has no Zapier, Make or webhook connectors yet.
Best for: PDFs, scans and photos to Excel, CSV or JSON without templates
2. Parseur
Parses emails, PDFs and spreadsheets with AI or templates. Every PDF page is a credit and unused credits expire each billing period. Mini is $89 a month for 300 pages.
Best for: Emails and PDFs into Google Sheets, Zapier, Make or webhooks
3. Parsio
Pre-trained AI parsers for 15+ document types, a prompt-based GPT parser, templates and OCR. The AI parser uses 3 credits per page, so check which parser your documents need before comparing plans.
Best for: Emails and documents into Google Sheets, Zapier, Make or n8n
4. Docparser
Rule-based parsing (zones, anchor keywords, table rules) per parser. A credit covers up to 5 pages, so multi-page documents are cheap once the parser is tuned.
Best for: Recurring layouts you tune once, with Zapier and webhooks
5. Amazon Textract
An API, not an app: plain text detection costs $1.50 per 1,000 pages, tables $15, forms $50 and receipts and invoices (Analyze Expense) $10, at US West (Oregon) rates. Features enabled on the same page bill separately and add up.
Best for: Developers building their own pipeline on AWS
When to stay with Nanonets
Stay with Nanonets if you need the whole workflow in one place (classifying incoming documents, validation rules, approvals and routing to other systems), or you want models trained on your own documents.
Questions people ask
Pdf data extraction api pay as you go
Amazon Textract is true pay-per-page ($1.50 per 1,000 pages for text, $15 for tables, US West rates). Nanonets bills per block run, $0.02 to $0.30. ExtractFox's REST API comes with every paid plan from $9/month for 100 files, and a one-time $5 pack of 50 extractions whose credits don't expire is the closest it has to pay-as-you-go.
Cheap alternative to docparser or parseur for pdf data extraction
ExtractFox: $9 a month for 100 files of any page count, or $5 once for 50, with two free extractions without an account and 5 a month on a free one. Parseur starts at $49/month for 100 pages, Docparser at $39/month for 100 documents of up to 5 pages, and Parsio at $24/month billed yearly for 100 credits.
Ai tool to extract data from images and photos into a spreadsheet
ExtractFox reads photos and scans (PNG, JPG, WEBP, HEIC up to 20 MB) as well as PDFs and returns rows you can download as Excel or CSV. Nanonets can do the same inside a workflow, billed per block run.
Extract data from passport or id card into json
ExtractFox's passport extractor returns the holder's fields as JSON and checks the machine-readable zone's check digits; fields that fail are flagged for review instead of guessed. Amazon Textract's Analyze ID does the same over the AWS API, billed per page.
Sources
Every price and limit for another tool comes from these pages, read on the date shown. ExtractFox's figures are on the pricing page.
- Nanonets pricing · checked October 9, 2026
- Parseur pricing · checked October 9, 2026
- Parsio pricing · checked October 9, 2026
- Docparser pricing · checked October 9, 2026
- Amazon Textract pricing · checked October 9, 2026