- Free allowance
- Free plan, USD 0 a month: 10,000 credits a month, recurring (credits reset at the start of the next billing cycle).
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- volume-quota10,000 credits a month on the Free plan (Parse: 1 credit a page Fast, 3 Cost-effective, 10 Agentic, 45 Agentic Plus); an exhausted Free plan returns HTTP 402 until the next billing cycle
- Evidence
- documented18 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 | Free plan, USD 0 a month: 10,000 credits a month, recurring (credits reset at the start of the next billing cycle). Parse costs 1 credit a page on the Fast tier, 3 on Cost-effective, 10 on Agentic and 45 on Agentic Plus; 1,000 credits are USD 1.25 on a paid plan. When the credits run out, a credit-consuming request on the Free plan returns HTTP 402 unit credits; metered on unstated; the credit is consumed per page for Parse (per minute for audio, per sheet for spreadsheets); the vocabulary has no page term. All products (Parse, Extract, Classify, Split, Index) draw on the same 10,000 credits |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) 10,000 credits a month on the Free plan (Parse: 1 credit a page Fast, 3 Cost-effective, 10 Agentic, 45 Agentic Plus); an exhausted Free plan returns HTTP 402 until the next billing cycle source
- per-object-cap Parse 512 MB per file and 10,000 pages per job; Extract 100 MB per file and 500 pages per job; 130+ document, image, spreadsheet and audio formats source
- request-rate parse job creation 500 requests per 10 seconds per organization, the same on every plan; 5 concurrent parse jobs on the Free plan source
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| Binding | volume-quota 10,000 credits a month is the ceiling at 1 to 45 credits a page, far below the 512 MB and 10,000-page per-job caps |
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| Identity | email a LlamaCloud account made at login.llamaindex.ai ('sign in with your preferred method'); the Free plan asks for no payment details, which are entered only when upgrading to a paid plan; unverified: the sign-up form's fields (email, social login or phone) were not visible in the captured sign-in page |
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| Egress | not published |
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| Per-object cap | Parse: 512 MB per file and 10,000 pages per job after page selection; Extract: 100 MB per file and 500 pages per job |
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| Retention | parsed files are cached for 48 hours; retained (non-expiring) files stay until deleted, up to 10,000 files / 10 GB per project on the Free plan |
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| Interface | rest, cli REST API (POST /api/v2/parse) plus Python, TypeScript, Go and Java SDKs, a CLI and a web UI |
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| Tooling | the llama_cloud Python SDK and the TypeScript, Go and Java SDKs, the CLI, or plain REST with an API key generated in the LlamaCloud console |
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| Composes with | a recurring monthly credit with no card; the Fast tier at 1 credit a page is the cheapest way to spend it, and the paid Starter plan adds credits when the Free plan runs out |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded; no request was made because a key needs a signed-in account |
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| Notes | the Free plan's 10,000 credits are recurring each billing cycle; paid Starter is USD 50 a month with 40,000 credits |
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| Evidence note | documented the Free plan's credit amount, its monthly reset, the HTTP 402 behaviour, the per-page credit cost, the file and page limits and the rate limit are quoted from vendor pages read on 2026-11-03. The sign-up form's fields are unverified, and no request was made. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- volume-quota 10000 credits / month
- per-object-cap 512 MB
- request-rate 500 requests
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