Amazon Textract alternatives for teams that want agentic workflows
Textract returns text, fields and tables. Docsumo is an intelligent document processing (IDP) platform: AI agents check every document in the file, your own team clears the exceptions, and the workflow follows your process.
A mortgage file for M. and D. Rivera, conventional 30-year, $412,000.00. Docsumo's AI agents sort and split the seven documents, read every field and table row, and check the file: the latest pay stub's monthly income of $7,670.00 is 4.1% below the W-2's $8,000.00 a month. A workflow agent routes the file to the lender's underwriting queue, where their own underwriter clears the exception with a note.
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Both read text, fields and tables. The difference is everything after the JSON.
| Docsumo OursIDP platform | Amazon TextractDocument AI API | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | A finished processAI agents read, check and route every document; your team clears the exceptions. | APIs that return JSONText, forms, tables and queries; the application around them is yours. |
| Case review | Each document checked against the othersEnterpriseYour team gets only what failed, with the reason. | Left to your applicationsAnalyze Expense normalises fields so your apps can compare documents. |
| Workflow | Built to your processEnterpriseCase types, stages and rules, on a canvas or in plain English. | Built in your codeAWS lists document workflows as something you build with Textract. |
| Human review | Built-in review queueConfidence thresholds per field; click a field to see its source line. | Closed to new customersAmazon A2I, the review add-on, is in maintenance; you set your own flag rules. |
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| Pricing | Quoted plans, up to 10% off annual billing | $0.0015 a page (text) to $0.070 (tables, forms, queries), US West (Oregon) |
| Free trial | 14 days, up to 1,000 pages, 10 users | Three months on the AWS Paid plan: 100 to 2,000 pages a month by API |
| Your documents and AI training | Not used to train shared or third-party models | May be used to improve Amazon's AI unless you opt out |
| Deployment | Docsumo cloud; no on-prem | AWS regions, including AWS GovCloud (US) |
| Security | CertifiedSOC 2 Type 2ISO 27001HIPAAGDPR | As statedHIPAA eligiblePCIISOSOC |
Textract may be the better pick if you
- have engineers to build review, checks and routing on AWS
- want published pay-as-you-go prices per page
- need AWS GovCloud (US) regions
Sources and the date we checked them
Amazon Textract: pricing, FAQ and the Free Tier page; Amazon A2I: developer guide, services in maintenance. Docsumo: pricing and security. Checked 25 Sep 2026.
Textract reads the page. The rest of the process is yours to build.
The layers a document process needs, from OCR at the bottom to routing at the top.
- Included
- Partly included
- You build and run it
| Amazon TextractDocument AI API | DocsumoIDP platform | |
|---|---|---|
| You build itA use case you build on AWS | Workflow and routing | IncludedEnterpriseCanvas or plain English |
| PartlyCloudTrail logs the API calls | Audit trail | IncludedBusinessAudit logging |
| You build itYour applications compare | Checks across documents | IncludedEnterpriseEach document vs the others |
| You build itA2I add-on closed to new customers | Review queue | IncludedPer-field confidence thresholds |
| PartlyAnalyze Lending: mortgage files only | Sorting and splitting | IncludedBusinessAny document set |
| IncludedForms, tables and queries | Fields and tables | Included250+ document types, plus any other |
| IncludedDetect Document Text API | OCR and text | IncludedPrinted and handwritten |
Sources and the date we checked them
Amazon Textract: pricing and FAQ; Amazon A2I: developer guide and services in maintenance. Docsumo: pricing. Checked 25 Sep 2026.
- 01Pick the filesWeek 0
- 02Set up your processWeek 1
- 03Run bothWeeks 1–2
- 04SwitchWeek 2
How switching works
- Pick the files. Take 150–200 recent files, hard ones included, with Textract's output as the baseline.
- Set up your process. Model your document types, checks and stages; point a webhook at a test endpoint.
- Run both. Send the same files to both. Count the fields a person fixed.
- Switch. Move the production webhook and retire the review and routing code you maintained.
Amazon Textract competitors and alternatives, compared
As each vendor states on its own site. "Not stated" means we couldn't find it there, not that the product lacks it.
| Tool | Free trial | Pricing | Deployment | Human review |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DocsumoOursIDP platformTeams that want checks, review and workflow built in | 1,000 pages14 days, 10 users | QuotedUp to 10% off annual plans | CloudDocsumo-hosted; no on-prem | Your teamBuilt-in review queue |
| Amazon TextractDocument AI APIEngineers building their own pipeline on AWS | 3-month free trialAWS Paid plan; 1,000 text pages a month | $1.50 per 1,000 pagesText only; forms $0.05 a page (Oregon) | AWS cloudAWS regions incl. GovCloud; VPC endpoints | Closed to new customersA2I review add-on; you set flag rules |
| Google Document AIDocument AI APIDevelopers on Google Cloud building their own pipeline | $300 Google Cloud creditNew customers, 90 days | $1.50 per 1,000 pagesOCR. Custom extractor: $30 per 1,000 | Google CloudUS or EU multi-region; some single regions (limited) | DeprecatedBuilt-in HITL review, since 16 Jan 2024 |
| Azure Document IntelligenceDocument AI APIDevelopers on Azure building their own document pipeline | 500 free pages a monthFirst 2 pages per file; card to sign up | $1.50 per 1,000 pagesRead OCR; prebuilt $10, custom $30 per 1,000 | Cloud or on-prem containersv4.0 containers: Read and Layout only | No review queue statedYou set score thresholds for review |
| Amazon Bedrock Data AutomationDocument AI APIAWS teams that want gen-AI output from documents and media | AWS credits$100 for new accounts, up to $100 more | $10 per 1,000 pagesStandard output; custom $0.04 a page | AWS cloudCross-Region inference within your geography | No review queue statedConfidence scores route to manual review |
Sources, checked 25 Sep 2026
As each vendor states it: Docsumo pricing, security · Amazon Textract trial, pricing, deployment, security, review · Google Document AI trial, pricing, deployment, review, security · Azure Document Intelligence trial, pricing, deployment, review, security · Amazon Bedrock Data Automation overview, pricing, free tier. Prices in USD.
“The accuracy and service have been amazing since day one, and the team is still incredibly responsive a year later.”
Mark Bentley, Head of Credit, Grid FinanceQuestions about Amazon Textract alternatives.
What is the best alternative to Amazon Textract?
It depends on whether you want an API or a finished process. Docsumo (ours) is an intelligent document processing (IDP) platform: AI agents check every document in the file, your team clears the exceptions and workflows follow your process. Google Document AI and Azure Document Intelligence are the closest cloud APIs; on AWS, Bedrock Data Automation is Amazon's newer gen-AI service. Stay on Textract if your engineers want to build the rest. If you're building extraction into your own product, Docsumo's document extraction API returns fields with confidence scores and includes a white-label review screen.
How much does Amazon Textract cost?
AWS publishes per-page prices by API and feature. In US West (Oregon), for the first million pages a month: Detect Document Text $0.0015 a page, tables $0.015, forms $0.05, and tables, forms and queries together $0.070. Rates drop after a million pages.
Is Amazon Textract free?
Not after the trial. New AWS customers on the Paid plan get three months: up to 1,000 pages a month of text detection and 100 with forms and tables. Docsumo's free trial runs 14 days, up to 1,000 pages and 10 users.
Does Amazon Textract include human review?
Not in Textract itself. Amazon A2I, the add-on that sends Textract results to human reviewers, is closed to new customers: AWS lists it among services in maintenance. You set rules to flag low-confidence results and build the review step. Docsumo includes a review queue with confidence thresholds per field.
Does Amazon use my documents to improve its AI?
Textract's FAQ says that unless you opt out, some content it processes may be stored in another AWS region to improve Textract and other Amazon machine-learning technologies. Docsumo doesn't use your documents to train shared or third-party models.
Can Docsumo run in my AWS account or on-prem?
No. Docsumo is cloud-hosted, with SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR compliance. If documents must stay inside your own AWS account, Textract fits better.
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