Document AI pricing

This document explains Document AI pricing details.

Document AI is a solution and intended to be used with other Google Cloud products. You might need to review the pricing for Cloud Vision, Cloud Natural Language API, or Vertex AI. You are not billed for failed requests (4xx or 5xx response codes).

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

Digitize text

Processor	Price (USD)
Enterprise Document OCR Processor	0 count to 1,000 count $0.00 (Free) / 1,000 count, per 1 month / account 1,000 count to 5,000,000 count $1.50 / 1,000 count, per 1 month / account 5,000,000 count and above $0.60 / 1,000 count, per 1 month / account
OCR add ons 2	$6.00 / 1,000 count

Extract structures and entities from documents

Processor	Price (USD)
Custom extractor 1	0 count to 1,000,000 count $30.00 / 1,000 count, per 1 month / account 1,000,000 count and above $20.00 / 1,000 count, per 1 month / account
Form Parser	0 count to 1,000,000 count $30.00 / 1,000 count, per 1 month / account 1,000,000 count and above $20.00 / 1,000 count, per 1 month / account
Layout Parser (Includes initial chunking)	$10.00 / 1,000 count

Break documents into chunks

Processor	Price
Re-chunking parsed documents	$0.02 / 1,000 count

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

Pricing examples

Example 1

You sent 100 pages to Form Parser in your monthly billing cycle. Your monthly bill is:

($30 / 1,000 pages) * (100 pages) = $3 for prediction services

Example 2

You sent 6 million pages to Form Parser in your monthly billing cycle, your monthly bill is:

($20 / 1,000 pages) * (5,000,000 pages) = $100,000 for prediction services
($30 / 1,000 pages) * (1,000,000 pages) = $30,000 for prediction services
Total: $130,000

Classify documents

Processor	Price (USD)
Custom splitter	0 count to 1,000,000 count $5.00 / 1,000 count, per 1 month / account 1,000,000 count and above $3.00 / 1,000 count, per 1 month / account
Custom classifier	0 count to 1,000,000 count $5.00 / 1,000 count, per 1 month / account 1,000,000 count and above $3.00 / 1,000 count, per 1 month / account
Summarizer	$0.025 / 1 count

Service tiers

With service tiers you can reserve capacity for requests.

Tier	Price (USD)
Provisioned	$0.410958904 / 1 hour

Custom processor hosting

With custom processors, you pay for hosting and prediction.

Hosting charges

Operation	Price (USD)
Hosting	$0.05 / 1 hour

Pricing example:

One processor version deployed for a year costs $438 ($.05 * 24 * 365).

Pretrained processor charges

Processor	Price (USD)
Invoice parser*	$0.10 / 1 count
Expense parser (formerly receipt parser)*	$0.10 / 1 count
Utility parser* 3	$0.10 / 1 count
Procurement document splitter & classifier 3 4	$0.05 per classified document
Bank statement parser	$0.75 per classified document
Pay slip parser	$0.30 per classified document
W2 parser	$0.30 per classified document
Lending document splitter and classifier	$0.05 per classified document
US driver license parser	$0.10 / 1 count
US passport parser	$0.10 / 1 count
Identity document proofing	$0.10 / 1 count

* 1 count equals up to 10 pages in a document

Pricing examples

Here are a few pricing examples:

To parse a document with between 1 to 10 pages costs $0.10.
To parse a document with between 11 to 20 pages costs $0.20.
To parse a document with between 91 to 100 pages costs $1.

Note that documents with more than 10 pages are not supported by synchronous requests. You can process multiple documents, each up to 200 pages, by sending a batch request. For more information, see Limits for specialized processors.

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

If the input document has multiple eligible forms, only the first is processed and charged the price listed. If the input document has no eligible form, processing doesn't occur and no charge is made.

Billing questions

Use the following resources to get help with billing questions:

To learn more about billing, read the Cloud Billing documentation.
Resolve billing concerns by using the billing concerns troubleshooter.
Request help with billing questions by using the billing support form.
To change or disable billing on a project, go to the Billing page in the Google API Console. For more information, see Modify a Project's Billing Settings in the Google API Console Help.

Caution: When you disable billing for a project, you also disable all product resources in that project.

What's next

Read the Document AI documentation.
Get started with Document AI.
Try the Pricing calculator.
Learn about Document AI solutions and use cases.

Notes

[1] The cost to call the custom extractor is the same whether you use a generative AI-powered processor version or custom model.

[2] Only available for Enterprise Document OCR processor (v2).

[3] This processor is only available to limited access customers.

To request API access, fill out and submit the Document AI limited access customer request form. The form requests information about you, your company, and your use case. Note that a Google Cloud Project ID is required for access. To create a new Google Cloud project, or identify your existing project's Project ID see the following instructions.

After you submit the form, the Document AI team will review your request to ensure you meet the criteria for access. If approved, you will receive an email with instructions on how to access and use this feature.

[4] You are not billed if a document is classified as "other," by Procurement Document Splitter & Classifier instead of a specific document type.

[5] The size of a page depends on the file format.

Images (JPEG/JPG, PNG, BMP, HEIF): Each image = 1 page
PDF: Each page in the PDF = 1 page
TIFF: Each image in the TIFF = 1 page
Word (DOCX): Up to 3,000 characters = 1 page
Excel (XLSX): Each tab = 1 page
Powerpoint (PPTX): Each slide = 1 page
HTML: Up to 3,000 characters = 1 page
Parsed Documents: Up to 3,000 characters = 1 page

Request a custom quote

With Google Cloud's pay-as-you-go pricing, you only pay for the services you use. Connect with our sales team to get a custom quote for your organization.