How much does Amazon Textract cost?
Usage price from
$0/page after 1m
- Free plan
- Not stated
- Free trial
- Three-month AWS Free Tier for new AWS customers: Detect Document Text 1,000 pages/month,…
- Usage price
- $0/page after 1m
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
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In your favor
- Free trial. Three-month AWS Free Tier for new AWS customers: Detect Document Text 1,000 pages/month, Analyze Document up to 1,000 pages/month (signatures only) or 100 pages/month (forms, tables, queries), Analyze Expense 100, Analyze ID 100, Analyze Lending 2,000 pages/month
Watch out for
- Going over the Detect Document Text API (first 1M pages/month) allowance costs $0 per page after 1m. Included: 0 .
How you buy and get started
Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Get started with Amazon Textract, Contact sales, Request custom pricing, Create an AWS account
- Sign up
- Create an AWS account and start in the console "Get started building with Amazon Textract in the AWS Management Console."
- Setup
- Not stated
- When sales steps in
- High volume use cases "For high volume use cases, connect with our sales team to request a custom pricing proposal."
What Amazon Textract does
Amazon Textract goes beyond basic OCR to pull printed text, handwriting, layout, key-value pairs, tables, signatures, IDs and mortgage data from PDFs and images. It is sold as pay-per-page APIs inside an AWS account, with a three-month free tier for new customers.
- Good for
- Developers and organizations in financial services, healthcare and public sector that need to automate extraction of data from forms, invoices, IDs and mortgage documents at scale.
- Channels
- API, AWS Management Console
- Main product
- Amazon Textract
- Also includes
- Detect Document Text API (OCR for text and handwriting), Analyze Document API (Forms, Tables, Queries, Custom Queries, Signatures), Analyze Expense API, Analyze ID API, Analyze Lending API
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Not stated
- Chat with PDFNot stated
- AI document summariesNot stated
- AI-assisted PDF editingNot stated
- OCR for scanned files
Detect Document Text API uses OCR technology to extract text and handwriting from a document.
- Structured data extraction
It goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to identify, understand, and extract specific data f
- Multi-document Q&ANot stated
- Answers with citationsNot stated
- E-sign and security controlsNot stated
The same 8 checks appear on every tool in AI PDF tools. Each tick quotes the vendor's own site.
Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | Not stated | |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | Not stated | |
| GDPR | Not stated | |
| CCPA | Not stated | |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | Not stated | |
| Trust center | Not stated |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detect Document Text API (first 1M pages/month)per page | $0per page after 1m | – | – | $0/page after 1m | "The pricing per page in US West (Oregon) region for the first one million pages is $0.0015" |
| Analyze Document API - Tables (first 1M pages/month)per page | $0.01per page after 1m | – | – | $0.01/page after 1m | "The pricing for Tables in the US West (Oregon) region is $0.015 per page for the first 1M " |
| Analyze Document API - Forms (first 1M pages/month)per page | $0.05per page after 1m | – | – | $0.04/page after 1m | "Pages with forms is $0.05 for one million pages, and $0.04 per page after one million." |
| Analyze Document API - Queries (first 1M pages/month)per page | $0.01per minute | – | – | – | "The pricing per page in the US West (Oregon) region for one million pages is $0.015, for a" |
| Analyze Document API - Signatures (first 1M pages/month)per page | $0per page after 1m | – | – | $0/page after 1m | "Price per page for first 1M pages = $0.0035\*1000000 = $3500" |
| Analyze Document API - Custom Queries (first 1M pages/month)per page | $0.03per page after 1m | – | – | $0.01/page after 1m | "The pricing in the US West (Oregon) region is $0.025 per page for the first 1M pages in a " |
| Analyze Expense API (first 1M pages/month)per page | $0.01per page after 1m | – | – | $0.01/page after 1m | "Price per page = $0.01 for the first 1 million and $0.008 for the next 500,000" |
| Analyze ID API (first 100K pages/month)per page | $0.03per page after 100k | – | – | $0.01/page after 100k | "Price per page = $0.025 for the first 100K and $0.01 for the next 500,000" |
| Analyze Lending API (first 1M pages/month)per page | $0.07per page after 1m | – | – | $0.06/page after 1m | "Price per page = $0.07 for the first 1M and $0.055 for the next 200,000" |
| High-volume custom quote | Quote | – | – | – | "For high volume use cases, connect with our sales team to request a custom pricing proposa" |
Fine print
- Auto renew
- Not stated
- Billed beyond usage
- Not stated
- Billing increment
- Per page, with tiered rates by monthly volume "Total charge per month = $0.0015 \* 1,000,000 + $0.0006 \* 1,000,000 = $1,500 + $600 = $2,100"
- Contract
- Not stated
- Price change notice
- Not stated
- Refunds
- Not stated
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- Amazon Web Services, Inc.
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Questions
Is Amazon Textract free?
There's no free plan. Free trial: Three-month AWS Free Tier for new AWS customers: Detect Document Text 1,000 pages/month, Analyze Document up to 1,000 pages/month (signatures only) or 100 pages/month (forms, tables, queries), Analyze Expense 100, Analyze ID 100, Analyze Lending 2,000 pages/month.