# Reducto vs Unstructured

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Unstructured

| Attribute | Reducto | Unstructured |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 62.2 (74% (medium)) | 84.3 (55% (medium)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"air_gapped":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A document processing platform that converts PDFs, images, and other file formats into structured JSON using OCR and vision language models. Enables parsing, extraction, splitting, classification, and form filling through unified APIs designed for enterprise-grade accuracy. | Unstructured provides enterprise-grade data preprocessing and ETL capabilities that convert messy, unstructured documents (PDFs, images, tables, etc.) into machine-readable formats optimized for language models and AI workflows. It handles data ingestion, transformation, enrichment, and embedding across multiple sources and destinations with built-in security and compliance. |
| features.capabilities | `{"soc2_type_ii":true,"pricing_model":"pay_per_page_api","architecture_model":"managed_cloud_api","mit_or_apache_permissive_oss_license":true,"pdf_and_multimodal_image_ocr_parsing":true,"zero_data_retention_privacy_guarantees":true,"native_chunking_and_vectorization_for_rag":true,"strict_json_schema_forcing_and_validation":true,"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 | 4 | 40 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"AWS Marketplace"},{"name":"Claude"},{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"VS Code"}]` | `[{"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"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","GB","EU"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Standard","summary":"Free tier (15K credits), then $0.015/credit","features":["Parse, Extract, Edit, Split APIs","30+ file types (PDF, PNG, JPEG, XLTM, QPW, PPTX, PPT, HTML)","Table, form, image, graph, equation parsing","Layout analysis and bounding boxes","Structured schema extraction with citations","Multilingual OCR and automatic page rotation","Custom webhooks, enrichment VLM, table clustering, document splitting"],"minSeats":5,"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"credit"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.015,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Pay-as-you-go for early-stage teams","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"throughput":"350 guaranteed concurrent pages","free_credits":"15k","studio_seats":"5"}},{"free":false,"name":"Growth","summary":"Custom pricing. Volume discounts, zero data retention, BAA, premium support, regional endpoints","features":["Everything in Standard","Volume discounts","Zero data retention agreement","Business Associate Agreement (BAA)","Premium rate limits and priority support","EU/AU data residency endpoints","Studio evaluations"],"description":"Built for scaling teams","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"studio_seats":"unlimited"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing. Full infrastructure control, on-premises deployment, dedicated support","features":["Everything in Growth","VPC and on-premises deployments","Custom MSA, SLA, rate limits, and throughput","Custom processing pipelines","Dedicated on-call support","Role-based access control, SSO, SAML"],"description":"Built for full control & custom needs","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Batch Processing","components":[{"of":"parsing_credits","kind":"percentage","rate":-20}]}],"summary":"Free tier (15K credits), then $0.015/credit. Custom pricing for Growth and Enterprise. 20% discount on batch processing.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://reducto.ai/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-25T21:44:09.690Z"}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"15,000 pages/month free","features":["All features included"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Monthly free allowance with automatic resets","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"pages":"15,000/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pay-As-You-Go","summary":"$0.03/page after 15,000 free pages; bill capped at $3,000/month","features":["All features included"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"page"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.03,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Usage-based pricing after free monthly allowance","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Business","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Multi-user accounts","Dedicated Instance or VPC","Full data isolation","24/7 technical support"],"description":"Enterprise deployment with dedicated infrastructure and support","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free tier with 15,000 pages/month. Pay-as-you-go at $0.03/page with $3,000 monthly cap. Custom enterprise pricing available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://unstructured.io/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-21T13:45:12.559Z","startingPrice":{"unit":"page","amount":0.03,"currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":0.03,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.9 | - |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |

## Capabilities (AI Data Extraction Agents)

| Capability | Reducto | Unstructured |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Architecture model | Managed cloud API | 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 | Pay per page API | Pay per page API |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:43:37.199Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*