Google Document AI alternative (2026)

The short answer

Switch if

The person using it is an ops lead, not an engineer, and you need a screen for exceptions.

Stay on Document AI if

GCP is your stack and engineers own the pipeline.

Pricing

What Document AI costs today

Invoice Parser and Expense Parser: $0.10 for every 10 pages in a document. A 1-page invoice costs the same as a 10-page one.
Custom Extractor and Form Parser: $30 per 1,000 pages up to 1M a month, then $20 per 1,000.
Enterprise Document OCR: $1.50 per 1,000 pages.
Failed requests are not billed.

The options

Document AI alternatives

Foxello

Same extraction job, with the Review Hub and export included. From €14.99/mo. Handles invoices, bills of lading, claims, forms and handwriting.

Amazon Textract

For teams on AWS. Analyze Expense is $0.01 per page in US West (Oregon). API only.

Nanonets

When extraction has to become a workflow. Per block run.

ABBYY

For on-prem and enterprise capture programs.

Docsumo

Quote-based, with a review queue and case checks.

Comparison

Pick by job

Need	Tool
Same job, with a review screen	Foxello
Already on AWS	Amazon Textract
Agents, not a parser	Nanonets
On-prem	ABBYY
Stay	Document AI, if engineers own the pipeline

How it works

How to switch

List what you built around Document AI. Upload, queue, review, export.

Run the same files through Foxello. Name the fields you were extracting.

Compare the plumbing you no longer need. Review UI, retry logic, storage.

Keep the cloud for what it is good at. Large clean volumes may stay where they are.

Context

Why teams look for an alternative

Per-page API pricing is cheap and honest, and the cost that is left is engineering. Someone has to build the review screen, handle low-confidence results and wire up the export. For a small team that cost is higher than the processing bill.

FAQ

Common questions

Is Foxello cheaper than Document AI?

Not at high volume on clean invoices. Document AI is priced per page and Foxello per monthly plan (about €0.05 to €0.10 per token depending on plan). Foxello is the alternative when nobody will build the queue.

Does Foxello have a review screen?

Yes. The Review Hub is included on every plan.

Where does my data go?

Documents stay in the EU and are never used for training.

Google Document AI alternative