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Should I use Reducto?

The complete agentic document platform - llms.reducto.ai

Depends. Buy if you're an engineering team parsing messy, complex documents at production scale, especially in regulated industries. Skip it if you just need text out of clean PDFs — free open-source parsers handle that.

Confidence

Medium. Based on ~20 public sources. Caveat: most comparison and benchmark pages are hosted on Reducto's own site, so treat performance figures as vendor-reported.

Ratings

  • Value for money
  • Ease of useNot disclosed
  • Feature depth
  • Support quality
  • Security posture

Pricing

$0.015/page (1 credit)

Pay per page

ModelNot disclosed
Monthly feesNot disclosed
HardwareNot disclosed

Best for

  • AI teams building RAG on messy docs
  • Regulated industries: health, legal, finance
  • High-volume production document pipelines
  • Engineering teams needing audit-grade citations

Not for

  • Small teams with clean, simple PDFs
  • Non-technical users wanting no-code automation
  • Zero-budget prototypes and hobby projects
  • Teams without developer resources to integrate an API

Gotchas - check before you buy

high

Benchmark and comparison pages are vendor-authored; verify accuracy on your own documents

medium

Per-page pricing compounds fast at millions of pages — model your volume before committing

medium

Studio pipelines use proprietary Pipeline IDs — expect integration lock-in

medium

Self-serve tier unconfirmed; air-gapped and BAA deployments likely need sales contact

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Ranked #1 independently: 99.6% precision/recall, completed all 225 test documents
  • $0.015/page is half Unstructured's published list price
  • SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA BAA, zero data retention by default
  • Deploys from multi-tenant cloud to fully air-gapped on-prem
  • 4B+ pages processed; trusted by Harvey, Scale AI, Vanta

Cons

  • API-first platform — requires engineering resources, not no-code
  • Overkill for simple parsing; open-source parsers fit prototyping
  • Most accuracy comparisons live on Reducto's own marketing site
  • No public pricing tiers found; likely sales-led at volume

Sources & method

Analyzed 9/21/2026 - 10 sources - Strong posture: SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA BAA, zero data retention default, cloud to air-gapped deployment.

official x3review x5security x2

Key stats

  • Value for money: 4/5

    Rating

  • $0.015/page (1 credit)

    Starting price

  • 10

    Sources

  • Analyzed

  • Value for money: 4/5. $0.015/page is half Unstructured's list price
  • Feature depth: 5/5. Parse, extract, split, edit, redact, Studio pipelines, SDKs
  • Support quality: 4/5. Claims 99.9%+ uptime and enterprise SLAs
  • Security posture: 5/5. SOC 2 II, HIPAA BAA, zero retention, air-gapped option
  • 99.6% Independent accuracy precision/recall on 225-doc healthcare benchmark
  • 4B+ Pages processed across thousands of companies
  • $0.015 Pay-per-page price 1 credit/page; text, layout, tables, OCR included
  • SOC 2 + HIPAA Compliance Type II audited; BAAs available

Pricing

Pay per page

$0.015/page (1 credit)

  • Text, layout, tables, OCR included
  • Structure-preserving parse

Security

Strong posture: SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA BAA, zero data retention default, cloud to air-gapped deployment.

What users say

No independent user reviews found; nearly all sourced content is Reducto's own comparison and marketing pages.

Alternatives

Compare Reducto with each alternative.

  • Docling

    Free open-source parser; fine for simple PDFs and prototyping

  • LlamaParse

    LLM-focused parsing with a lighter footprint and free tier

  • Unstructured

    Open-source partitioning toolkit; strong self-hosting option

    Reducto vs Unstructured

  • Google Cloud Document AI

    Managed OCR/IDP inside Vertex AI for cloud-committed teams

Companies that use it

Full analysis

Based on ~20 public sources. Caveat: most comparison and benchmark pages are hosted on Reducto's own site, so treat performance figures as vendor-reported.

Enterprise-grade document AI for messy docs at scale. Top accuracy and compliance; overkill for simple PDF parsing.

Methodology

Based on ~20 public sources. Caveat: most comparison and benchmark pages are hosted on Reducto's own site, so treat performance figures as vendor-reported.

Sources

  1. Reducto: The Complete Agentic Document Platformllms.reducto.ai
    official
  2. Reducto on Y Combinatorycombinator.com
    review
  3. What is Reducto? Platform Overview and Capabilitiesllms.reducto.ai
    official
  4. Reducto Security, Compliance, and Deploymentllms.reducto.ai
    security
  5. Reducto Trust Centerllms.reducto.ai
    security
  6. Reducto vs. Unstructuredllms.reducto.ai
    review
  7. Docling vs LlamaParse vs Unstructured vs Reductollms.reducto.ai
    review
  8. Reducto vs. Parseurllms.reducto.ai
    review
  9. Reducto vs. Extendllms.reducto.ai
    review
  10. Reducto performance at scalellms.reducto.ai
    official

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