Comment by johndough

> I think it offers an optimal balance of affordability & reliability.

It is hard to trust "you" when ChatGPT wrote that text. You never know which part of the answer is genuine and which part was made up by ChatGPT.

To actually answer that question: Pricing varies quite a bit depending on what exactly you want to do with a document.

Text detection generally costs $1.5 per 1k pages:

https://cloud.google.com/vision/pricing

https://aws.amazon.com/textract/pricing/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/ai-documen...