Benchmark Methodology
Document Set
We test every platform on a standardized set of 1,000+ documents sourced from real businesses. The set includes invoices (40%), bank statements (15%), tax forms (10%), receipts (10%), contracts (10%), shipping documents (10%), and identity documents (5%).
Documents span three quality levels: digital-native PDFs (40%), high-quality scans (35%), and degraded/low-quality scans (25%). Multi-language documents represent 20% of the set.
Scoring Dimensions
- Extraction Accuracy (30%) — Field-level accuracy on our standard document set. Blind-tested with ground truth comparison.
- Ease of Use (20%) — Time to first extraction, learning curve, and whether non-technical users can operate it.
- Value for Money (15%) — Total cost of ownership at three volume tiers (100, 1,000, 10,000 pages/month), including engineering costs.
- Integrations (15%) — API quality, pre-built connectors, and ecosystem breadth.
- Scalability (10%) — Throughput, latency under load, and infrastructure overhead.
- Support & Docs (10%) — Documentation quality, support responsiveness, and community resources.
Testing Process
Each platform is tested by at least two team members. Accuracy testing is fully blind — the evaluator doesn't know which platform produced which output during scoring.
We re-run benchmarks quarterly to account for model updates and new feature releases. Scores are updated within 30 days of any major platform change.
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