# Marker vs Unstructured

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Unstructured

| Attribute | Marker | Unstructured |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 49.4 (76% (high)) | 75.4 (53% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 6 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 0 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 40,445 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"An open-source tool that extracts text, tables, and layouts from PDF files with high accuracy. It offers multiple processing modes (fast, balanced, OCR) and optional integration with language models for enhanced formatting and content extraction. It is indexed under AI Data Extraction Agents.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"What is Marker?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Marker offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"Is Marker free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Marker supports a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does Marker support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Marker can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"Can Marker be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 7 integrations for Marker, including Gemini, Claude, OpenAI, Azure, Vertex, OpenRouter and Ollama. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"What does Marker integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 for Marker. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Marker not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker","question":"What security certifications does Marker have?","confidence":0.48},{"answer":"Yes. Marker is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker","question":"Is Marker open source?","confidence":0.95}]` | `[{"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 | `{"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | A tool that transforms PDFs into structured markdown and JSON formats using advanced machine learning models for layout analysis and optical character recognition. Supports integration with various language models including Claude, Gemini, and OpenAI-compatible APIs. | 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 | `{"pricing_model":"free_open_source","architecture_model":"open_source_library","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,"fine_tuned_document_layout_analysis_models":true,"tabular_layout_preservation_for_complex_tables":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 | 7 | 40 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Gemini"},{"name":"Claude"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"Vertex"},{"name":"OpenRouter"},{"name":"Ollama"},{"name":"Azure OpenAI","native":false,"category":"llm","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Google Vertex AI","native":false,"category":"llm","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"}]` |
| language.primary | Python | - |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | - |
| market.availability | - | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Open Source","features":["PDF to markdown/JSON conversion","Layout analysis with OCR","Table recognition","LLM integration support"],"description":"Free for research, personal use, and startups under $5M funding/revenue","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Commercial","description":"Commercial use of model weights beyond startup threshold requires licensing","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free open source (research, personal, startups <$5M). Commercial licensing available.","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://github.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-14T22:33:59.878Z"}` | `{"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 | open_source | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | free | low |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":0.015,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 6 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/datalab-to/marker/releases/tag/v2.0.0","date":"2026-07-20T19:41:39Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/datalab-to/marker/releases/tag/v1.10.2","date":"2026-01-31T00:12:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.10.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/datalab-to/marker/releases/tag/v1.10.1","date":"2025-09-30T15:40:24Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.10.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/datalab-to/marker/releases/tag/v1.10.0","date":"2025-09-24T01:19:13Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.10.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/datalab-to/marker/releases/tag/v1.9.3","date":"2025-09-09T20:43:45Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.9.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/datalab-to/marker/releases/tag/v1.9.2","date":"2025-09-04T18:47:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.9.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/datalab-to/marker/releases/tag/v1.9.1","date":"2025-09-02T14:39:45Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.9.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/datalab-to/marker/releases/tag/v1.9.0","date":"2025-08-29T23:03:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.9.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/datalab-to/marker/releases/tag/v1.8.5","date":"2025-08-23T17:09:33Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.8.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/datalab-to/marker/releases/tag/v1.8.4","date":"2025-08-20T16:47:03Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.8.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/datalab-to/marker/releases/tag/v1.8.3","date":"2025-08-04T18:16:49Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.8.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/datalab-to/marker/releases/tag/v1.8.2","date":"2025-07-15T18:26:09Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.8.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/datalab-to/marker/releases/tag/v1.8.1","date":"2025-07-04T18:45:30Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.8.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/datalab-to/marker/releases/tag/v1.8.0","date":"2025-06-27T19:55:09Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.8.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/datalab-to/marker/releases/tag/v1.7.5","date":"2025-06-11T20:36:33Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/datalab-to/marker/releases/tag/v1.7.4","date":"2025-06-02T23:11:13Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/datalab-to/marker/releases/tag/v1.7.3","date":"2025-05-22T19:41:35Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/datalab-to/marker/releases/tag/v1.7.2","date":"2025-05-20T16:47:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/datalab-to/marker/releases/tag/v1.7.1","date":"2025-05-19T22:50:02Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/datalab-to/marker/releases/tag/v1.7.0","date":"2025-05-19T21:07:30Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.7.0"}]` | - |
| security.certifications | - | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO 27001","status":"active"}]` |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://github.com/security | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2FVikParuchuri%2Fmarker&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | - |

## Capabilities (AI Data Extraction Agents)

| Capability | Marker | Unstructured |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Architecture model | Open source library | Managed cloud API |
| PDF and multimodal image OCR parsing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Web scraping to markdown or json | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tabular layout preservation for complex tables | ✓ | ✓ |
| Strict json schema forcing and validation | - | ✗ |
| Fine tuned document layout analysis models | ✓ | ✓ |
| Native chunking and vectorization for rag | - | ✓ |
| Javascript rendering for spa web scraping | ✗ | ✗ |
| Human in the loop hitl confidence review queue | - | ✗ |
| Zero data retention privacy guarantees | ✓ | ✓ |
| SOC2 type ii | - | ✓ |
| Mit or apache permissive oss license | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pricing model | Free open source | Pay per page API |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-17T15:31:42.567Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*