How much does Google Document AI cost?
Usage price from
$1.50/minute
- Free plan
- Yes
- Free trial
- New customers get $300 in free credit for Document AI and other Google Cloud products;…
- Usage price
- $1.50/minute
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
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In your favor
- Free plan. First 1,000 pages of Enterprise Document OCR are free; pages beyond that are billed at $1.50 per 1,000
Watch out for
- Going over the Enterprise Document OCR (first 1,000 pages) allowance costs $1.50 per 1,000 pages. Included: 1000 pages.
How you buy and get started
Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Try it in console, Contact sales, Start free, Request a quote
- Sign up
- Self-serve start via Google Cloud console with free credit "Start free"
- Setup
- Not stated
- When sales steps in
- Not stated
- Support
- Billing support form and troubleshooter "Request help with billing questions by using the [billing support form](https://support.google.com/cloud/contact/cloud_platform_billing)."
What Google Document AI does
Document AI lets developers create processors through the Google Cloud Console or an API to extract structured data, classify and split documents, run OCR and summarize large documents. Pricing is pay-as-you-go per processed page, with custom quotes through sales.
- Good for
- Developers and enterprises processing documents at scale, such as mail rooms, shipping, mortgage processing and procurement, and feeding results into BigQuery or ML training.
- Channels
- Google Cloud Console, API
- Main product
- Document AI
- Also includes
- Custom extractor, Custom splitter, Custom classifier, Enterprise Document OCR, Form parser, Layout parser with initial chunking
- Connects to
- BigQuery, Agent Search, Cloud Storage
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Not stated
- Chat with PDFNot stated
- AI document summaries
Summarize large documents with a generative AI powered solution
- AI-assisted PDF editingNot stated
- OCR for scanned files
OCR extracts text from scanned documents, plots, reports, and presentations prior to saving on a cloud storage
- Structured data extraction
Custom extractor provides an easy way to extract structured data from documents.
- 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 | committed to GDPR compliance | "We’re committed to transparency, compliance with regulations like the GDPR, and privacy best practices."privacy |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise Document OCR (first 1,000 pages)per 1,000 pages | – | – | 1000 pages | $1.50/1,000 pages | "0 count to 1,000 count $0.00 (Free)" |
| Enterprise Document OCR (1,000 to 5,000,000 pages)per 1,000 pages | $1.50per minute | – | – | – | "$1.50 per 1,000 pages 1 - 5,000,000 pages per month" |
| Enterprise Document OCR (5,000,000+ pages)per 1,000 pages | $0.60per minute | – | – | – | "5,000,000 count and above $0.60" |
| OCR add onsper 1,000 pages | $6per minute | – | – | – | "$6 per 1,000 pages 1 - 5,000,000 pages per month" |
| Custom extractor (up to 1,000,000 pages)per 1,000 pages | $30per minute | – | – | – | "$30 per 1,000 pages 1 - 1,000,000 pages per month" |
| Custom extractor (1,000,000+ pages)per 1,000 pages | $20per minute | – | – | – | "1,000,000 count and above $20.00" |
| Form parserper 1,000 pages | $30per minute | – | – | – | "$30 per 1,000 pages 1 - 1,000,000 pages per month" |
| Layout Parser (includes initial chunking)per 1,000 pages | $10per minute | – | – | – | "$10 per 1,000 pages 1 - 1,000,000 pages per month" |
| Custom splitterper 1,000 pages | $5per minute | – | – | – | "$5 per 1,000 pages 1 - 1,000,000 pages per month" |
| Custom classifierper 1,000 pages | $5per minute | – | – | – | "$5 per 1,000 pages 1 - 1,000,000 pages per month" |
| Summarizerper 1,000 pages | $25per minute | – | – | – | "$25 per 1,000 pages 1 - 1,000,000 pages per month" |
| Invoice, expense, utility and US ID parsersper count (up to 10 pages) | $0.10per minute | – | – | – | "Invoice parser\* | $0.10 / 1 count" |
| Custom processor hostingper hour | $0.05per minute | – | – | – | "Hosting | $0.05 / 1 hour" |
| Custom quote | Quote | – | – | – | "Connect with our sales team to get a custom quote for your organization." |
Free plan: First 1,000 pages of Enterprise Document OCR are free; pages beyond that are billed at $1.50 per 1,000
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Per page processed; pretrained processors per count of up to 10 pages "Cost is based on number of processed pages per month, the relevant quota, and any purchased capacity reservation."
- Billed beyond usage
- Not stated
- Contract
- Not stated
- Refunds
- Failed requests are not billed "You are not billed for failed requests (4xx or 5xx response codes)."
- Auto renew
- Not stated
- Price change notice
- Not stated
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Ships updates
- 20 in the last 12 months Last on Sep 21, 2026, from their changelog
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Questions
Is Google Document AI free?
Yes. First 1,000 pages of Enterprise Document OCR are free; pages beyond that are billed at $1.50 per 1,000