Extend alternative

An Extend alternative for AI document extraction

Compare the same source and review rules. Illustrative workflow.

Decide whether you need extraction infrastructure or a place to finish the review.

Extend documents schema-based extraction with confidence scores and citations. Its extraction flow uses parsing underneath. Dynamite Docs offers a workspace for checking extracted values and exporting results. The comparison turns on who owns the application and the review process around the extraction.

An engineering team may value evaluation tools and a configurable document pipeline. A finance reviewer may first need a consistent spreadsheet with the source at hand. Start with that deliverable, then include the integrations and recovery steps required to make it repeatable.

Test your document. Review a real file before choosing a plan. Check the source, the rows and the exported result.

Decision register

Compared with: Extend
Dynamite Docs scope: Extraction, review and export
Method: Published capabilities, no head-to-head benchmark
Sources checked: October 9, 2026

Choose by the work you need to finish

The fit judgments below are our assessment of the published capabilities. Validate them with your own documents and required integrations.

Finish a review and export task

Evaluate Dynamite Docs for a person who needs to inspect the original file, correct rows and hand the result to a spreadsheet or an existing system. Try the actual export formats.

Operate an extraction pipeline

Evaluate Extend for schema extraction inside a product or workflow. Its pricing lists Studio and Evals alongside document operations. Include that tooling in the trial if your team will maintain the pipeline.

Dynamite Docs vs Extend

Published by Dynamite Docs. Competitor facts come from the linked first-party sources, checked October 9, 2026. Plan scope can change; an unconfirmed capability is not treated as absent.

Buying decision	Dynamite Docs	Extend
Extraction	Inferred fields and tables with editable results	Schema-based extraction, confidence scores and citations (vendor source)
Application ownership	Reviewer workspace plus paid integration options	Document infrastructure with Studio and Evals (vendor source)
Pricing unit	Monthly PE allowances for hosted processing	Credits; confirm the operations used per document (vendor source)
Entry billing	Free trial and paid plans listed on /pricing	10,000 introductory credits, then $0.0125/credit (vendor source)
Deployment	Hosted workspace with optional local model inference	Enterprise BYOC/VPC or hybrid options by agreement (vendor source)

Test your document. Review a real file before choosing a plan. Check the source, the rows and the exported result.

Compare price, usage units and included work

USD pricing as of October 9, 2026. Monthly and annual billing are shown separately. A page, document credit and workflow block are different units. These entry plans do not establish equivalent capacity or total cost.

Product	Entry price and billing	Included usage or unit	What to confirm
Dynamite Docs	Free 28-day trial; Starter $13/month or $130/year, billed once every 12 months	100 monthly PE on Starter; 25 monthly PE during the free trial	CSV, JSON, XLSX downloads on Free. Starter adds 500 MB storage, Google integrations, API and webhooks. Provider charges are separate for BYOK.
Extend	10,000 introductory credits, then $0.0125/credit	Pay as you go, without a monthly minimum; Scale $500/month includes 50,000 credits	Confirm credit usage for your operation sequence, additional usage and enterprise deployment.

Check all Dynamite Docs prices and limits. Successfully processed hosted and local no-AI pages use one PE each; failed pages cost zero. Free and Starter own-key runs use the same allowance; Pro and Ultra own-key runs cost zero PE. Monthly caps are hard. Provider and file-size limits still apply.

Plan a migration test before switching

Evaluate the change process as well as the first result

Prepare a small reference set containing both stable layouts and one unfamiliar layout. Write the required field names, data types and repeated-row structure before either trial. Save the checked reference outside the extraction tool so you can identify a regression after a schema or instruction changes.

Then introduce a deliberate change: an optional field becomes required or the destination needs a separate tax column. Update the extraction configuration and repeat the full reference set. Record how much work is needed to find the affected records, correct them and preserve the contract expected by the destination.

Prove delivery and exception ownership

Send the result through the same receiving application that production will use. Include an invalid value, an empty required field and a repeated submission. Decide whether the reviewer corrects the source result, the exported file or a downstream record. Keep that decision consistent so a retry cannot silently overwrite a reviewed value.

Compare the complete billable sequence rather than multiplying the entry credit rate by an assumed page count. Include any preparation, review, workflow and deployment requirements in the purchase scope. Retain the previous configuration and a rollback plan until the new path meets the agreed acceptance checks.

Run a comparison with your own files

1. Define the schema before the test. Use required fields, a repeated line-item table and an optional section. Set the expected behavior for blanks and absent sections. Compare the usable records, not only whether an API request succeeded.
2. Exercise a schema change. Add a new supplier layout and change a destination column. Track how each workflow is updated and how existing consumers stay compatible during the change. Include review time in the result.
3. Reconcile the credit estimate. Run the entire sequence you intend to deploy, including splitting or classification when needed. Save the measured usage and ask which operations are charged again during a retry.

Choose the model account for your extraction workflow

Use included hosted processing, connect your own AI provider keys, or run model inference through the Ollama companion on Hobby, Pro and Ultra. Compare provider terms, model quality and the complete data path for the documents you process.

Each successfully processed hosted page costs one PE. Free and Hobby provider-key runs use the monthly PE allowance; Pro and Ultra provider-key runs cost zero PE. Your provider bills your account directly with zero markup.

Local Ollama inference runs on your computer; account and workspace features remain hosted.

Hosted: Predictable allowances with hard caps and no surprise overages.
Provider key (BYOK): Connect your own AI account for unlimited runs on Pro and Ultra.
Local Ollama: Run model inference on your computer. Account and workspace features remain hosted.
Custom endpoint: Connect any OpenAI-compatible model endpoint to the same review flow.

Compare hosted, own-key, custom and local AI routes.

Plan the application around the extraction

Choose who owns the schema, review interface and exception queue before switching.

Dynamite Docs does not import Extend workflows, evaluation sets or API contracts.
Credits are not automatically equivalent to pages; verify the complete operation sequence.
Customer-cloud deployment and local model inference describe different data boundaries.

How we maintain this comparison

Written and maintained by the Dynamite Docs team. We sell one of the products compared here. Fit recommendations are our assessment, not an independent ranking.

We reviewed the linked vendor product and pricing pages on October 9, 2026. Dynamite Docs allowances and capabilities come from our current plan definitions. We have not run a shared head-to-head accuracy, speed or cost benchmark.

Compare extraction, review, intake, delivery, deployment and total cost separately. A feature that we could not confirm remains unconfirmed. Vendor statements describe published capabilities, not results we have reproduced.

Check the quoted plan and implementation scope before purchase. We review these comparisons quarterly, with the next review due January 9, 2027, or earlier after a material product or pricing change.

Sources and review date

Extend extraction overview, Extend. Reviewed 2026-10-09.
Extend credit pricing and plans, Extend. Reviewed 2026-10-09.

Questions about extend alternative

Does Extend support structured extraction?

Yes. Its extraction documentation describes schemas, confidence and citations. The useful comparison is how that output enters your application and how reviewers resolve exceptions.

Does the free credit allowance recur monthly?

The reviewed pricing page describes 10,000 introductory credits for pay as you go. Treat them as an introductory allowance unless your agreement explicitly says otherwise.

Continue with the exact document task

Compare all alternatives: Compare document APIs, review workspaces, parsers and automation platforms.
Dynamite Docs plans and limits: Check processing, storage, export formats and integration access.
Test extraction quality: Use representative files and account for manual correction work.
Plan the data handoff: Check how your destination receives the reviewed result.

Test your document or compare processing, storage and integration limits.