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Reducto vs Extend
Reducto is the complete agentic document platform: stronger measured accuracy, document editing, and deployment from hosted to air-gapped. Extend offers managed document workflows for teams that don't want to build in-house.
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At a glance
How Reducto and Extend compare
Both are serious enterprise options. Reducto wins on measured extraction accuracy, deployment flexibility including fully air-gapped environments, and a platform spanning parsing through document editing.
| 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: Deep Extract: 100% coverage, 99.6% precision and recall, 0 failures on micro1’s long-document 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: Merged cells, multi-level headers, borderless tables. | Partial: Handles common tables; evaluate merged cells and irregular layouts on your documents. |
| Enterprise deployment | Yes: SOC 2 Type II; HIPAA/BAA on Growth+; documented retention policies; hosted to air-gapped. | Partial: Cloud, BYOC, and Hybrid deployment; no fully air-gapped option. |
| Toolkit breadth | Yes: Parse, Extract, Split, Classify, and Edit across 30+ file types. | Yes: Workflow builder with built-in human review and an Edit API for PDF form filling. |
| Rate limits & throughput | Yes: Standard Parse baseline: 200 concurrent batches in US, 60 in EU; adaptive ceiling grows with usage. | Partial: 10 RPS pay-as-you-go; enterprise starts at 75 RPS, 300 files/min. |
| Pricing | From $0.01/page pay-as-you-go; $150 in free credits. | PAYG: 10,000 free credits, then $0.0125/credit; no monthly minimum. |
| Production scale | 5B+ 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 seven 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 failures and 7 incompatibilities reported separately. These are Deep Extract results, not r-1 Parse results. 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 reaches up to 99–100% zero-shot accuracy on complex documents. Reducto’s parsing pipeline balances accuracy, latency, and throughput for your workload. With r-1, layout understanding, text recognition, and table parsing come together in one full-page pass, with specialized agentic processing available for custom instructions and advanced chart extraction. That architecture handles the content that makes document processing difficult: handwriting, dense and irregular tables, and strikethroughs. r-1 has 20% lower error than Reducto’s previous agentic pipeline. 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: with citations enabled, extracted values link to their bounding-box positions 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 includes parsing, extraction, classification, splitting, and an Edit API for detecting and filling PDF form fields. Reducto's Edit API supports workflows 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 offers Cloud, BYOC, and Hybrid deployment for enterprise teams, but does not currently offer a fully air-gapped option. Reducto goes further on deployment flexibility: SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA processing with a BAA on Growth and Enterprise, documented data-retention policies, 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 5B+ pages.
- Pricing structure
- Extend offers pay-as-you-go with 10,000 free credits, then $0.0125 per credit, with no monthly minimum. Cost per page depends on the processor and mode. Reducto starts at $0.01/page pay-as-you-go for Parse r-1 with $150 in free credits (enough to run a real evaluation before spending anything) and scales into custom volume discounts. One platform covers parse, extract, split, classify, and edit, with per-product pricing and parsing included with Extract and Deep Extract.
- Throughput and rate limits at scale
- Reducto queues Parse work using a concurrency throttle; separate API request-rate limits also apply. The Standard baseline is 200 concurrent parse batches in the US and 60 in the EU; 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. For teams clearing large document backlogs, Reducto’s adaptive concurrency lets processing capacity grow with sustained demand.
- 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 Reducto-commissioned micro1 long-document 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 on Growth+ and documented data-retention terms.
- 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: Parse r-1 at $0.01/page with $150 in 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 pay-as-you-go fits your budget.
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Research before you choose
- BenchmarkComplex Document Extraction Benchmark
See how Deep Extract performed on micro1’s independent benchmark of complex document extraction.
- GuideIDP Enterprise Evaluation
Use a practical framework to evaluate document processing platforms for enterprise workloads.
- GuideBest OCR APIs for Complex Documents
Compare the OCR capabilities that matter when documents contain scans, tables, and mixed layouts.
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