- Free allowance
- 10,000 free pages once per account, no card required, all features included; after the first 10,000 pages the API refuses further page processing unless the account is upgraded to Pay-As-You-Go at USD 0.015 a page
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota10,000 pages once per account; further page requests fail until the account is upgraded to Pay-As-You-Go at USD 0.015 a page
- Evidence
- documented19 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | 10,000 free pages once per account, no card required, all features included; after the first 10,000 pages the API refuses further page processing unless the account is upgraded to Pay-As-You-Go at USD 0.015 a page unit mixed; metered on unstated; the unit is pages (a page, slide or image for .pdf, .pptx and .tiff; the file size divided by 100 KB for other types; the vocabulary has no page term). The 10,000-page credit is applied once per account and does not renew |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) 10,000 pages once per account; further page requests fail until the account is upgraded to Pay-As-You-Go at USD 0.015 a page source
- per-object-cap 100 MB (104,857,600 bytes) per document; extensions .bmp, .docx, .heic, .jpeg, .jpg, .pdf, .png, .pptx, .tiff; one document per request source
- request-rate unverified: the limits page states 'No public values are specified for result size, request rate, or concurrent jobs' source
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| Binding | volume-quota the 10,000 pages are a one-time credit that runs out before the 100 MB per-document cap matters |
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| Identity | email a Transform account: the login page at transform.unstructured.io offers registration with an email address or Continue with Google; the pricing page states no card is required for the 10,000 free pages and a card is entered only to upgrade to Pay-As-You-Go; unverified: whether registration is open or approval-gated, since the quickstart says 'If you do not have access, contact your account team' |
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| Egress | not published |
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| Per-object cap | 100 MB (104,857,600 bytes) per document on upload, parse or direct extract; one document per request; 50 MB per file through the MCP server (104857600 bytes) |
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| Retention | unverified: no retention period for uploaded documents or results read on the Transform pages captured |
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| Interface | rest REST (POST https://transform.unstructured.io/api/v2/parse with an unstructured-api-key header), a Python SDK, and an MCP server |
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| Tooling | plain REST with an API key from the Transform console, the Python SDK, or the Transform MCP server in an MCP client; the endpoint takes one local file per request, with no URL ingestion |
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| Composes with | 10,000 pages with no card, once, for the file types .bmp, .docx, .heic, .jpeg, .jpg, .pdf, .png, .pptx and .tiff; the next page costs USD 0.015, so it is a one-time trial lane rather than a monthly one |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded; no request was made because an API key needs a signed-in account |
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| Notes | the Transform MCP server limits files to 50 MB and accepts a broader file-type list than the web app and API |
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| Evidence note | documented the 10,000 free pages, their one-time application, the missing card requirement, the per-page price, the 100 MB cap and the nine accepted extensions are quoted from vendor pages read on 2026-11-03; whether registration is open to anyone is unverified, and no request was made. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- per-object-cap 100 MB
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