What is the cost of document intellegence service with form recognizer

Hello Naveen Kumar, K Krishna,

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I understand that you're trying to sort out the pricing for the Document Intelligence service with Form Recognizer, particularly if you're being charged $1.50 or $10 for processing 1,000 pages. Here's how it generally works:

Azure Document Intelligence pricing varies depending on what you're using. The service offers both Pay-as-You-Go and Commitment Tiers payment options, and prices are typically based on the number of pages processed. According to the pricing information, you might be seeing different rates based on the feature or model you're using.

1. For Azure Document Intelligence, pricing is per page processed, and the cost depends on which capability is being used. The ~$1.50 per 1,000 pages price applies only to basic OCR (Read) scenarios. This includes:
   • Plain text recognition
   • Basic layout extraction
   • No structured fields, key-value pairs, or semantic document understanding
   This pricing corresponds to the Read model, not full document analysis. Although it’s sometimes assumed that all prebuilt models fall under the $1.50 tier, that rate does not apply when using full document analysis features. The $1.50 pricing is strictly for OCR-only extraction, not for structured or semantic processing.
2. Prebuilt document analysis – ~$10 per 1,000 pages When you use any of the following:
   • prebuilt-document
   • prebuilt-invoice
   • prebuilt-receipt
   • prebuilt-idDocument
   • prebuilt-layout (with structured output)
   the service performs full document analysis, not just text extraction. This includes:
   • Key-value pair detection
   • Table extraction
   • Structured and semantic document understanding
   Because prebuilt-document:analyze falls into this category, it is billed at ~$10 per 1,000 pages.

Custom models

Pricing is higher for custom intelligence:

• Custom classification: ~ $10 per 1,000 pages
• Custom extraction: typically ~ $30 per 1,000 pages

Model training is billed separately from inference.

To clarify exactly what you're being charged, you can check your usage directly from the Azure Portal:

1. Go to your Document Intelligence resource.
2. Navigate to the Metrics tab under the Monitoring section.
3. Look at the Processed pages metric; apply any necessary splits to dive deeper into what service is incurring costs.

You can calculate your costs by multiplying the processed pages by the unit price of each feature, which can be verified on the Azure AI Document Intelligence pricing page.
Also please refer this

Document Intelligence Metrics in Azure Portal

Check usage and estimate cost

I Hope this helps. Do let me know if you have any further queries.

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