Mindee vs Konfuzio
The split here is hosted API against software you can run on your own servers. Mindee is a Paris-based per-page parsing API with credit prices on its website, a 14-day trial of 200 pages and SDKs in six languages. Konfuzio, from Helm & Nagel GmbH in Germany, offers SaaS or an on-premise licence, with human-in-the-loop review and audit trails built in, but no public price list. A development team adding extraction to a product will lean to Mindee, while a back office with confidential files will lean to Konfuzio.
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Choose Mindee ifyou have developers adding extraction to a product and want per-page prices published on the page, no sales call needed. You do not need a screen where a clerk corrects doubtful fields.
Choose Konfuzio ifyou handle documents that may not leave your own infrastructure, or you need reviewers to correct low-confidence results. You can budget from EUR 15,000 for implementation and have Linux skills in house for an on-premise start.
Mindee and Konfuzio side by side
| Mindee | Konfuzio | |
|---|---|---|
| Our OCR and document capture rank | #1 of 16 | #2 of 16 |
| Established in | France | Germany |
| List price, 10 November 2026 | Credit packs billed per page: Starter 44 per month, Pro 116 per month (annual billing), Enterprise custom from 500,000 credits a year | Quoted per project: SaaS subscription or on-premise licence, pilot from EUR 5,000, implementation from EUR 15,000 |
| Free tier | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hostable | — | Yes |
| Built for | Development teams adding extraction to a product they already own | Organisations whose documents may not leave their own infrastructure |
| Not for | Back-office teams who need a screen to correct results | Teams wanting a hosted service with no operations work |
Both are reviewed in full in our OCR and document capture ranking: Mindee and Konfuzio.
Where they differ
Mindee 1 · Konfuzio 3 · open 2- 01
Documents that may not leave the building
Konfuzio offers an on-premise licence, described as documents never leaving the customer's infrastructure, alongside SaaS hosted in Europe on German providers such as Hetzner and Telekom or on Azure, AWS and Google. Mindee is a hosted API only. Its homepage lets you host data in the EU or the US, and it contrasts itself with on-premise solutions without offering one. When a rule forbids any cloud, only Konfuzio of this pair can meet that requirement.
Edge: Konfuzio
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Credits, tiers and the 20 percent overage
Mindee prices in credits: Starter is shown at 44 per month or 529 per year, Pro at 116 per month or 1,393 per year on annual billing, with tiers from 6,000 to 300,000 credits. One page is 1 credit and a page with a confidence score 1.5. Overage credits carry a 20% surcharge. The currency symbol was not captured, though the page FAQ quotes dollars. Konfuzio publishes no list prices, so Mindee is easier to model.
Edge: Mindee
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Trial of 200 pages or a free assessment
Mindee lists no free plan, but a 14-day trial is offered from the Starter and Pro cards, and our assessment puts it at 200 pages. Konfuzio has no free plan or trial either. Its free offer is a Strategic Discovery assessment with no obligation, followed by a Business Value Validation pilot from EUR 5,000 that is fully credited if the project proceeds. A developer wanting to test tonight prefers Mindee. A buyer wanting a scoped pilot may prefer Konfuzio.
Depends on the buyer
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When a clerk has to fix a doubtful field
Konfuzio lists human-in-the-loop escalation, confidence-based routing, AI document classification, audit trails and monitoring, and our assessment says its training interface and review step run on your own hardware. Mindee returns typed, located and scored fields, yet our assessment says it has no reviewer interface, no audit trail of who corrected what and no workflow. A finance team buying Mindee is also commissioning a build project for that correction screen.
Edge: Konfuzio
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SDKs and connectors to wire it in
Mindee lists official SDKs for Python, Node.js, Java, .NET, PHP and Ruby, plus no-code connectors for Zapier, Make and n8n, and its functions include a data extractor, classifier, splitter and an edge detector for several documents photographed on one page. Konfuzio names SAP, Oracle, DATEV, SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, Shopware, Make and n8n, plus APIs, webhooks and message queues. Developers favour Mindee's kit, finance and HR teams favour Konfuzio's list.
Depends on the buyer
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Certifications, contracting entity and exit
Konfuzio names ISO 27001, GDPR, the EU AI Act, NIS2, DORA and TISAX, and its provider is Helm & Nagel GmbH of Asslar, which describes itself as owner-managed. Our assessment adds that its SDK is open source. Mindee names Mindee SAS in Paris as the contracting entity for Eurozone clients and Mindee Inc., a Delaware corporation, for others, and the page we read lists no certifications. On documented compliance, Konfuzio gives more.
Edge: Konfuzio
When neither fits
A buyer who wants hosted capture with zero operations and a reviewer screen will find neither a clean fit. Cradl AI and Parashift are worth pricing against them for back-office capture.
Mindee or Konfuzio: questions
3 answersCan Mindee process my files only in Europe?
Our assessment says processing can be pinned to Europe on the Pro plan, and the homepage says data can be hosted in the EU or the US.
For clients in the Eurozone the contracting entity is Mindee SAS in Paris. Other clients contract with Mindee Inc. in the United States.
What does Konfuzio cost to get started?
No public price list or plan tiers exist. The homepage names a Business Value Validation pilot from EUR 5,000, an Enterprise Implementation from EUR 15,000 and a Scale and Optimization tier priced by volume. The pricing page we tried returned a 404.
Who maintains docTR, the open source library Mindee created?
Our assessment says Mindee created docTR and that t2k GmbH now maintains it. Mindee's own homepage states no open-source licence and only links to a GitHub profile. Konfuzio separately lists an open source SDK in our assessment.
Sources
Checked 10 November 2026- Mindee pricing page: credit tiers, the 1 and 1.5 credit page rates, the 20% overage surcharge and the 14-day trial.
- Mindee home page: EU or US hosting, SDK languages, Zapier, Make and n8n connectors and the extractor and splitter functions.
- Mindee terms of service: Mindee SAS for Eurozone clients and Mindee Inc. for other clients.
- Konfuzio home page: pilot and implementation prices, on-premise licence, German cloud hosts, review features, integrations and certifications.
- Konfuzio imprint: Helm & Nagel GmbH in Asslar as the provider of the product.