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Reducto vs Extend
Extend offers managed document workflows for teams that don't want to build in-house. Reducto is the complete agentic document platform: stronger measured accuracy, document editing, and deployment from hosted to air-gapped.
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At a glance
How Reducto and Extend compare
Both are serious enterprise options. Reducto wins on measured extraction accuracy, platform breadth including document editing, and deployment flexibility.
| Dimension | Reducto | Extend |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Full platform: parse, extract, split, classify, and edit in one API. | Managed document workflow product for teams not building in-house. |
| Extraction accuracy, measured | Yes: 100% coverage, 99.6% precision and recall, 0 failures on micro1's benchmark. | Partial: 93.3% coverage, 86.4% precision; 15 of 225 documents not completed. |
| Parsing accuracy | Yes: Up to 99–100% zero-shot; handwriting, strikethroughs, redlines, charts. | Partial: Solid on standard documents; less published evidence on hard content. |
| Table extraction | Yes: 0.90 on RD-TableBench; merged cells, multi-level headers, borderless tables. | Partial: Handles common tables; no published benchmark results. |
| Enterprise deployment | Yes: SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, zero data retention; hosted to air-gapped. | Partial: Hosted platform only; on-prem and air-gapped not documented. |
| Toolkit breadth | Yes: Parse, Extract, Split, Classify, and Edit across 30+ file types. | Yes: Workflow builder with built-in human review; no document editing API. |
| Rate limits & throughput | Yes: 200 concurrent batches self-serve; adaptive ceiling grows with usage. | Partial: 10 RPS pay-as-you-go; enterprise starts at 75 RPS, 300 files/min. |
| Pricing | From $0.015/page pay-as-you-go; 15,000 free credits. | $300 minimum monthly fee; no pay-as-you-go tier. |
| Production scale | 4B+ pages processed; Harvey, Scale AI, and Vanta in production. | Mid-market and Fortune 500 customers; pages processed not published. |
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The comparison in depth
Where the differences actually show up
- Extraction accuracy, measured
- An independent benchmark commissioned by Reducto and conducted by micro1 evaluated six extraction systems on 225 real, human-validated documents averaging 88,700+ fields each, with a ground-truth answer key built from frontier models and human reviewers, not from any extraction product. Reducto Deep Extract ranked #1 on all four dimensions with 100% coverage, 99.6% precision, 99.6% recall, and 99.3% leaf accuracy, and completed every document with zero failures. Extend MAX completed 210 of 225 documents (93.3% coverage) at 86.4% precision, 92.7% recall, and 92.8% leaf accuracy, with 8 hard failures. Benchmarks are a starting point, not a verdict: the numbers that matter are the ones on your own documents, which is why we encourage head-to-head evals.
- How the parsing pipeline differs
- Reducto orchestrates 12+ models (layout-aware computer vision, OCR, and vision-language models) in a multi-pass pipeline, balancing accuracy, latency, and throughput for your workload rather than routing everything through one model. Reducto uses frontier models; it doesn't try to replace them. That architecture is what holds up on the content that breaks single-pass systems: handwriting, dense and irregular tables, strikethroughs, redlines, and chart extraction, at up to 99–100% zero-shot accuracy. When parsing quality gates downstream extraction and LLM output, this is the difference that compounds.
- Citations and human review
- Both platforms take review seriously; Extend builds human review into its workflows. Reducto's approach is to make review targeted instead of exhaustive: every extracted value links to its exact bounding-box position in the source document via a dedicated citation model, with confidence scores exposed in the API and reviewable in Studio. Reviewers jump straight to the fields that need eyes rather than re-reading documents, which is what makes verification workflows scale in compliance and audit settings.
- Editing documents, not just reading them
- Extend's toolkit covers reading documents: parsing, extraction, classification, and splitting. Reducto adds an Edit API for filling out forms with accurate field detection, overflow logic for long answers, and creating new documents, so workflows that end in a filled form or a generated document don't need a second vendor. Combined with 30+ file types, an MCP server, CLI, and Python/Node.js/Go SDKs, agents and pipelines can drive the entire document lifecycle through one platform.
- Enterprise deployment and compliance
- Extend is a credible hosted option for enterprise teams. Reducto goes further on deployment flexibility: SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA compliant (BAA available), zero data retention, and your choice of hosted, VPC, on-prem, or fully air-gapped deployment for the strictest security postures. Teams at Harvey, Scale AI, and Vanta run Reducto in production, and the platform has processed 4B+ pages.
- Pricing structure
- Extend's lowest plan carries a $300 minimum monthly fee with no pay-as-you-go option, which front-loads commitment before you've validated accuracy on your documents. Reducto starts at $0.015/page pay-as-you-go with 15,000 free credits (enough to run a real evaluation before spending anything) and scales into custom volume discounts. One platform price covers parse, extract, split, classify, and edit.
- Throughput and rate limits at scale
- Reducto throttles on concurrency (how much work runs at once) rather than queries per second. The self-serve baseline is 200 concurrent parse batches, roughly 2,000 pages in flight, the ceiling grows automatically under sustained traffic, and excess work queues and runs instead of returning errors. Details are in the throttling docs. Extend's published limits are 10 requests per second and 80 files per minute on pay-as-you-go, with enterprise tiers starting at 75 requests per second and 300 files per minute. At baseline, Reducto's self-serve tier sustains roughly an order of magnitude more throughput than Extend's published enterprise starting limits, which is the difference between clearing a backlog and being bottlenecked by your vendor's submission rate.
- Migrating from Extend
- Migration is mostly schema mapping: Reducto's Extract API takes a JSON schema and returns structured output with per-field citations and confidence scores, and the docs cover Python, Node.js, and Go SDKs. Teams typically start by running both systems on the same document set in Studio, comparing field-level results, then cutting over pipeline by pipeline. Our engineers run migration evals with you on your own documents.
Which fits your team
Who should pick which
Both are real enterprise options. Here's the honest split.
Choose Reducto if…
- Extraction accuracy is the deciding factor — in the independent micro1 benchmark, Deep Extract led every dimension and completed all 225 documents without a failure.
- Your documents include the hard stuff: handwriting, dense tables, strikethroughs, redlines, charts, and scans.
- You need VPC, on-prem, or air-gapped deployment, or HIPAA with a BAA and zero data retention.
- Your workflow extends into document editing (filling forms or generating documents), not just reading them.
- You want to validate on your own documents before committing: pay-as-you-go from $0.015/page with 15,000 free credits.
Extend may be a fit if…
- You want a managed, opinionated workflow product with built-in human review, and prefer configuring workflows over composing API primitives.
- You're already running Extend workflows that meet your accuracy bar, and the cost of switching outweighs the measured gains.
- Your documents are standard business formats where most modern extraction systems perform well, and a $300/month minimum fits your budget.
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