# AWS Textract vs Unstructured

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Unstructured

| Attribute | AWS Textract | Unstructured |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 54.2 (75% (high)) | 75.4 (53% (medium)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Amazon Bedrock offers pre-built foundation models from multiple AI providers, with capabilities for custom model training, inference at scale, knowledge base integration, and automated document processing. Pricing is consumption-based on tokens, pages processed, or provisioned capacity. It is indexed under Document AI.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_br","question":"What is AWS Textract?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"AWS Textract offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.04. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_br","question":"Is AWS Textract free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to AWS Textract. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_br","question":"What platforms does AWS Textract support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for AWS Textract, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_br","question":"Can AWS Textract be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 10 integrations for AWS Textract, including AWS CloudWatch, AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway, Amazon S3, AWS IAM, Amazon Bedrock, Knowledge Bases and Bedrock Data Automation, plus 2 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_br","question":"What does AWS Textract integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed HIPAA and GDPR for AWS Textract. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as AWS Textract not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/trust-center/?nc1=f_cc","question":"What security certifications does AWS Textract have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"AWS Textract is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_br","question":"Where is AWS Textract available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"An ETL platform that automatically transforms complex, unstructured documents and data into structured formats suitable for GenAI applications, supporting 65+ file types with built-in enrichment and embedding capabilities. It is indexed under Document AI.","source":"https://unstructured.io/pricing","question":"What is Unstructured?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Unstructured offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.01. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://unstructured.io/pricing","question":"Is Unstructured free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Unstructured supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://unstructured.io/pricing","question":"What platforms does Unstructured support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Unstructured can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://unstructured.io/pricing","question":"Can Unstructured be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 40 integrations for Unstructured, including Airtable, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, Jira, PostgreSQL, S3, Salesforce and SFTP, plus 32 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://unstructured.io/pricing","question":"What does Unstructured integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for Unstructured. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Unstructured not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://unstructured.io/pricing","question":"What security certifications does Unstructured have?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Unstructured is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://unstructured.io/pricing","question":"Where is Unstructured available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | An AWS cloud service that uses machine learning to extract text, handwriting, layout elements, and structured data from scanned documents and images, eliminating manual data entry processes. | A platform that processes PDFs, scans, images, and other document formats using AI to extract and organize their content into structured formats for language models. Offers open-source libraries and a metered-usage cloud API. |
| features.capabilities | `{"prebuilt_models":true,"table_extraction":true,"id_document_parsing":true,"custom_model_training":true,"handwriting_recognition":true,"human_in_the_loop_review":true,"llm_vlm_based_extraction":true}` | `{"open_source":true,"soc2_type_ii":true,"pricing_model":"pay_per_page_api","prebuilt_models":true,"table_extraction":true,"architecture_model":"managed_cloud_api","confidence_scoring":false,"id_document_parsing":false,"rpa_erp_integration":false,"custom_model_training":true,"handwriting_recognition":false,"human_in_the_loop_review":false,"llm_vlm_based_extraction":true,"web_scraping_to_markdown_or_json":true,"mit_or_apache_permissive_oss_license":true,"pdf_and_multimodal_image_ocr_parsing":true,"zero_data_retention_privacy_guarantees":true,"javascript_rendering_for_spa_web_scraping":false,"native_chunking_and_vectorization_for_rag":true,"strict_json_schema_forcing_and_validation":false,"fine_tuned_document_layout_analysis_models":true,"human_in_the_loop_hitl_confidence_review_queue":false,"tabular_layout_preservation_for_complex_tables":true}` |
| integrations.count | 4 | 40 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"AWS CloudWatch"},{"name":"AWS Lambda"},{"name":"AWS API Gateway"},{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"AWS IAM"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock"},{"name":"Knowledge Bases","native":true,"category":"rag","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Bedrock Data Automation","native":true,"category":"data_processing","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"AWS Marketplace","native":true,"category":"integrations","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Asana","native":false,"category":"productivity","direction":"inbound"}]` | `[{"name":"Airtable"},{"name":"Google Cloud Storage"},{"name":"Google Drive"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"Salesforce"},{"name":"SFTP"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Snowflake"},{"name":"SQLite"},{"name":"Zendesk"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock"},{"name":"Astra DB"},{"name":"DuckDB"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"IBM Milvus"},{"name":"IBM watsonx.data"},{"name":"Weaviate"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Azure OpenAI"},{"name":"Google Gemini"},{"name":"AWS Bedrock"},{"name":"IBM watsonx"},{"name":"NVIDIA"},{"name":"Together.ai"},{"name":"VertexAI"},{"name":"Cohere"},{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"Azure Blob Storage"},{"name":"Databricks"},{"name":"OpenSearch"},{"name":"Neo4j"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"Box"},{"name":"OneDrive"},{"name":"Confluence"},{"name":"Dropbox"},{"name":"LangChain"},{"name":"SAP"},{"name":"Teradata"},{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"Codex"},{"name":"Gemini","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"outbound"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Textract","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"page"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0015,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Usage-based pricing with rates varying by API feature (Detect Text, Forms, Tables, ID documents, Lending) and volume."}],"summary":"Usage-based: from $0.0015 to $0.07 per page depending on feature and volume. Free tier available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://aws.amazon.com/textract/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-09-28T11:39:13.363Z","startingPrice":{"unit":"page","amount":0.0015,"currency":"USD"}}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Usage-based","summary":"$0.015/page after 10,000 free pages","features":["OCR","Parsing","Partitioning","VLM enrichment","Chunking","Embedding"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"page"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.015,"currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"free_pages":"10,000"}}],"summary":"$0.015/page. 10,000 free pages.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://unstructured.io/insights/pricing-models-for-document-processing-at-scale","retrievedAt":"2026-10-02T16:20:07.914Z","startingPrice":{"unit":"page","amount":0.015,"currency":"USD"}}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":0.0015,"currency":"USD"}` | `{"amount":0.015,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.certifications | - | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO 27001","status":"active"}]` |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/ | - |

## Capabilities (Document AI)

| Capability | AWS Textract | Unstructured |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Prebuilt models | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom model training | ✓ | ✓ |
| Table extraction | ✓ | ✓ |
| Handwriting recognition | ✓ | ✗ |
| Id document parsing | ✓ | ✗ |
| Human in the loop review | ✓ | ✗ |
| Confidence scoring | - | ✗ |
| LLM vlm based extraction | ✓ | ✓ |
| RPA ERP integration | - | ✗ |
| Open source | - | ✓ |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:53:38.591Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*