specification: FinOps Framework
specificationVersion: '1.0'
provider: LlamaParse
providerId: llamaparse
created: '2026-06-12'
modified: '2026-06-12'

billingModel: credit-based
description: >
  LlamaParse uses a credit-based billing model where all platform products (Parse, Extract,
  Classify, Split, Index, Sheets) are billed in credits. Credits are purchased via monthly
  subscription plans or consumed pay-as-you-go at $1.25 per 1,000 credits. Credits vary by
  product tier and page count, giving teams fine-grained cost control by selecting the
  appropriate processing tier for each document type.

focusColumns:
  - ChargePeriodStart
  - ChargePeriodEnd
  - ServiceName
  - ServiceCategory
  - UsageType
  - UsageUnit
  - UsageQuantity
  - BilledCurrency
  - BilledCost
  - EffectiveCost
  - PricingUnit
  - PricingQuantity

meters:
  - name: parse_credits_fast
    description: Credits consumed by Parse API in fast tier
    unit: credits
    pricingUnit: credits_per_page
    rate: 1
    product: Parse
    tier: fast

  - name: parse_credits_cost_effective
    description: Credits consumed by Parse API in cost-effective tier
    unit: credits
    pricingUnit: credits_per_page
    rate: 3
    product: Parse
    tier: cost_effective

  - name: parse_credits_agentic
    description: Credits consumed by Parse API in agentic tier
    unit: credits
    pricingUnit: credits_per_page
    rate: 10
    product: Parse
    tier: agentic

  - name: parse_credits_agentic_plus
    description: Credits consumed by Parse API in agentic-plus tier
    unit: credits
    pricingUnit: credits_per_page
    rate: 45
    product: Parse
    tier: agentic_plus

  - name: extract_credits_cost_effective
    description: Credits consumed by Extract API in cost-effective tier
    unit: credits
    pricingUnit: credits_per_page
    rate: 5
    product: Extract
    tier: cost_effective

  - name: extract_credits_agentic
    description: Credits consumed by Extract API in agentic tier
    unit: credits
    pricingUnit: credits_per_page
    rate: 15
    product: Extract
    tier: agentic

  - name: classify_credits_fast
    description: Credits consumed by Classify API in fast mode
    unit: credits
    pricingUnit: credits_per_page
    rate: 1
    product: Classify
    tier: fast

  - name: classify_credits_multimodal
    description: Credits consumed by Classify API in multimodal mode
    unit: credits
    pricingUnit: credits_per_page
    rate: 2
    product: Classify
    tier: multimodal

  - name: index_credits_standard
    description: Credits consumed by Index API in standard mode
    unit: credits
    pricingUnit: credits_per_page
    rate: 1
    product: Index
    mode: standard

  - name: index_credits_multimodal
    description: Credits consumed by Index API in multi-modal mode
    unit: credits
    pricingUnit: credits_per_page
    rate: 2
    product: Index
    mode: multi_modal

  - name: split_credits_standard
    description: Credits consumed by Split API per page
    unit: credits
    pricingUnit: credits_per_page
    rate: 4
    product: Split

  - name: split_credits_cached
    description: Credits consumed by Split API per page when file is cached
    unit: credits
    pricingUnit: credits_per_page
    rate: 3
    product: Split

  - name: addon_layout_extraction
    description: Additional credits per page for layout extraction add-on
    unit: credits
    pricingUnit: credits_per_page
    rate: 3
    product: Parse
    type: addon

  - name: addon_audio
    description: Credits per minute for audio processing add-on
    unit: credits
    pricingUnit: credits_per_minute
    rate: 3
    product: Parse
    type: addon

creditPricing:
  regions:
    - name: North America and Europe
      pricePerCredit: 0.00125
      currency: USD
      description: $1.25 per 1,000 credits

principles:
  - name: Visibility
    description: >
      LlamaCloud exposes per-product, per-tier credit consumption in the dashboard and billing
      portal, enabling teams to attribute costs to document types and processing modes.
    capabilities:
      - Credit usage tracking per organization and project
      - Real-time billing and usage dashboard at cloud.llamaindex.ai
      - Pricing documentation listing credits-per-page for all tiers

  - name: Optimization
    description: >
      Cost optimization is built into the platform tier structure. Teams should select the
      lowest tier sufficient for their accuracy requirements, use file caching to reduce
      re-processing costs, and leverage classification before expensive parse/extract operations
      to filter out irrelevant documents.
    strategies:
      - Use fast tier (1 credit/page) for simple text-heavy PDFs
      - Use cost-effective tier (3 credits/page) for standard business documents
      - Cache files to avoid re-upload costs
      - Use Extract-only pricing on previously parsed documents
      - Pre-filter with Classify before agentic Parse or Extract
      - Use pay-as-you-go to avoid over-provisioning on variable workloads