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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
PlanPriceBillingWho it is forKey limitsAPI
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 youPickWhy
you are a developer starting out and want no commitmentPay 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 monthlyScale, $500/mo50,000 credits included, $0.01 per extra credit and higher rate limits.
you handle health dataScale, $500/mo, with the HIPAA BAA add-onThe BAA is available as an add-on on Scale or through Enterprise.
you need SSO, private deployment or custom contractsEnterprise (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.

Extend pricing page with plans and prices — screenshot of the coding AI tool, Oct 2, 2026
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.

Paid plans: what changes as you upgrade

Pay As You Go web

$0 source (opens in a new tab)

Usage

For: Developers starting out

Limits

  • 10,000 free credits
  • $0.0125 per additional credit
1 more
  • No contract or monthly minimum

Includes

  • Parse, Extract, Classify, Split, Edit APIs
  • Studio and Evals
2 more
  • Composer and Review Agent
  • Workflows

API included

Scale web

$500/mo source (opens in a new tab)

Month

For: Teams scaling document volume

Limits

  • 50,000 credits/month included
  • $0.01 per additional credit
1 more
  • Higher rate limits

Includes

  • Everything in Pay As You Go
  • Private Slack channel support
2 more
  • Custom data retention
  • HIPAA BAA add-on

API included

Enterprise web

Custom pricing source (opens in a new tab)

Custom

For: Large organizations

Limits

  • Custom per-credit pricing
  • Custom rate limits

Includes

  • BYOC and Hybrid deployments
  • SSO and SAML
2 more
  • Advanced RBAC
  • Custom MSA, DPA and SLAs

API included

Usage caps, credits and extra costs

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.

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