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Alternatives to Extend

5 Document Extraction APIs rivals, ranked by the same evidence-graded leaderboard — Extend itself ranks #2 with a PA Score of 33/100. Every “beats Extend on” below comes from a judged head-to-head round with cited evidence — see the methodology.

  1. #1Reducto logo
    Reducto

    Reducto, Inc.

    PA Score 39/100vs Extend →
    coverage
    40.9/100

    Beats Extend on: Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent) · Output comes pre-chunked for RAG — semantic boundaries, metadata, embedding-ready segments — not a wall of text

  2. #3LlamaParse logo
    LlamaParse

    LlamaIndex, Inc.

    PA Score 33/100vs Extend →
    coverage
    33.4/100

    Beats Extend on: Self-host the core product · Export all of my data in open formats and leave

  3. #4Datalab logo
    Datalab

    Endless Labs, Inc. (dba Datalab)

    PA Score 30/100vs Extend →
    coverage
    31.6/100

    Beats Extend on: Export all of my data in open formats and leave · Output comes pre-chunked for RAG — semantic boundaries, metadata, embedding-ready segments — not a wall of text

  4. #5Unstructured logo
    Unstructured

    Unstructured Technologies, Inc.

    PA Score 26/100vs Extend →
    coverage
    28.8/100

    Beats Extend on: Output comes pre-chunked for RAG — semantic boundaries, metadata, embedding-ready segments — not a wall of text · One API handles my whole document mix — PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HTML, images, email — without per-format plumbing

  5. #6Mistral Document AI logo
    Mistral Document AI

    Mistral AI

    PA Score 20/100vs Extend →
    coverage
    20.4/100

    Beats Extend on: Parsed output preserves document hierarchy — headings, sections, reading order — so downstream LLMs see structure, not soup · I get clean markdown/JSON designed for LLM consumption, with noise like repeated headers and page furniture stripped

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