Extend pricing in 2026: Pay As You Go, Scale and Enterprise explained
Extend suits developers who want parse, extract, classify and split APIs with a free 10,000-credit start and no contract.
Starting price
$500/mo (Scale)
Free option
Yes
Plans
3
Prices checked
Oct 2, 2026
Scale$500.00
Extend plans and what they include
Extend charges per credit. Pay As You Go starts with 10,000 free credits and no contract, monthly minimum or sales call, then bills $0.0125 for each additional credit. It already includes the Parse, Extract, Classify, Split and Edit APIs, Studio and Evals, Composer and Review Agent, and Workflows.
Scale is $500 per month with 50,000 credits included and $0.01 per additional credit, plus higher rate limits, private Slack channel support, custom data retention and a HIPAA BAA add-on. Enterprise is custom-priced with BYOC and hybrid deployments, SSO and SAML, advanced RBAC and custom MSA, DPA and SLAs. Prices checked on 2026-10-02.
Extend plans compared
Plans and prices
Plan
Price
Billing
Who it is for
Key limits
API
Pay As You Go web
$0
Usage
Developers starting out
10,000 free credits; $0.0125 per additional credit; No contract or monthly minimum
Included
Scale web
$500/mo
Monthly
Teams scaling document volume
50,000 credits/month included; $0.01 per additional credit; Higher rate limits
Included
Enterprise web
Custom pricing
Custom
Large organizations
Custom per-credit pricing; Custom rate limits
Included
Which Extend plan to pick
Which plan to pick
If you
Pick
Why
you are a developer starting out and want no commitment
Pay As You Go (10,000 free credits)
No contract or monthly minimum; $0.0125 per credit after the free ones.
your document volume is growing and credits run out monthly
Scale, $500/mo
50,000 credits included, $0.01 per extra credit and higher rate limits.
you handle health data
Scale, $500/mo, with the HIPAA BAA add-on
The BAA is available as an add-on on Scale or through Enterprise.
you need SSO, private deployment or custom contracts
Enterprise (custom)
BYOC and hybrid deployments, SAML, advanced RBAC and custom SLAs.
What is free, what costs extra
Free access and trial
Pay As You Go includes 10,000 free credits; no contract, monthly minimum or sales call.
No separate trial; the free credits serve as the entry point.
Extra costs and taxes
Per-credit overage: $0.0125 (Pay As You Go), $0.01 (Scale). Extract costs 3 credits/page plus 2 credits/page for automatic parse in Performance mode; Light mode is cheaper.
Costs that are easy to miss
Extract costs 3 credits per page, plus 2 credits per page for automatic parse in Performance mode. Light mode is cheaper.
Past the free credits, Pay As You Go costs $0.0125 per credit, which adds up at high volume.
Scale is a fixed $500 per month before any volume benefit.
Regulated healthcare use needs the Scale add-on or Enterprise.
Extend pricing and usage limits
Prices checked Oct 2, 2026 on the official US pricing page. Official pricing ↗ Prices and limits change often.
The official Extend pricing page as we saw it. extend.ai, captured Oct 2, 2026
Free access and trial conditions
Pay As You Go includes 10,000 free credits; no contract, monthly minimum or sales call.
No separate trial; the free credits serve as the entry point.
Per-credit overage: $0.0125 (Pay As You Go), $0.01 (Scale). Extract costs 3 credits/page plus 2 credits/page for automatic parse in Performance mode; Light mode is cheaper.
How much Extend costs per year
At the listed prices, a single user pays between $6,000 and $6,000 a year on the fixed-price plans, or nothing on the free tier within its limits. Annual billing discounts, taxes and usage-based extras are listed per plan above where the vendor publishes them.
Extend FAQ
What does Extend charge per page for extraction?
In Performance mode extraction costs 3 credits per page plus 2 credits per page for the automatic parse; at $0.0125 per credit a 10-page document is about $0.63. source (opens in a new tab)
Does Extend require a contract or monthly minimum?
No. Pay As You Go has no contract, monthly platform fee or sales call; it includes 10,000 free credits. source (opens in a new tab)
What does Extend Scale cost and include?
Scale is $500 per month with 50,000 credits included, $0.01 per extra credit, Slack support, higher rate limits and a HIPAA BAA add-on. source (opens in a new tab)
How does Extend Light mode compare to Performance mode on cost?
Light Parse is 0.5 credits per page versus 2 for Performance, and Light Extract is 0.7 versus 3, about 4 times cheaper. source (opens in a new tab)
Does Extend have a free tier?
Pay As You Go includes 10,000 free credits. There is no separate trial; the free credits are the entry point.
How much does Extend Scale cost?
$500 per month, with 50,000 credits included and $0.01 per additional credit.
How many credits does extracting a page use?
Extract costs 3 credits per page, plus 2 credits per page for automatic parse in Performance mode.
Is a contract required?
Not on Pay As You Go, which has no contract, monthly minimum or sales call.