# LlamaIndex — AI Compare Ninja

> Parse, structure, index, and serve documents as RAG or document agents.

## Overview
- **Category:** Development & Code (Agent & RAG frameworks)
- **Status:** Active · checked - Active open-source framework and active LlamaCloud document/agent services.
- **Paid from:** $50 / Month (LlamaCloud Starter)
- **Free access:** Free plan (10,000 credits/month ≈ about 1,000 typical parsing pages.)
- **Website:** https://www.llamaindex.ai/
- **Canonical URL:** https://www.aicompare.ninja/en/tool/llamaindex

## What it does
- Open-source framework for RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), data connectors, and agents
- LlamaParse: structured extraction from PDFs and complex documents
- LlamaCloud service with indexing, classification, and deployable Document Agents
- Python and TypeScript SDKs (Software Development Kits) available

## In brief
LlamaIndex is an open-source framework for RAG, data connectors, and agents in Python and TypeScript. LlamaCloud supplements the framework with hosted services: LlamaParse for structured document extraction, indexing, classification, and deployable Document Agents. The framework is free; LlamaCloud plans start at free and scale to Enterprise. All prices are in the pricing overview.


## Limits
LlamaCloud publishes a list price of $1.25 per 1,000 credits. Free includes 10,000 credits. Starter includes 40,000 credits and costs $50. Pro includes 400,000 credits and costs $500. The vendor estimates that 10,000 credits cover roughly 1,000 typical parsing pages. For Extract, Cost Effective costs 5 credits per page. Agentic costs 15 credits per page. Agentic Plus costs 50 credits per page. High-confidence scoring can add 5 credits per page. Framework, LLM, and vector-database costs are separate.

## Pricing tiers
| Tier | Price | Period | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LlamaIndex open source | free | Self-hosted | RAG, agent, and data framework; No LlamaIndex run quota; Own LLM, embedding, vector DB, and hosting costs; Python and TypeScript ecosystem |
| LlamaCloud Free | free | Month | 10,000 credits/month; About 1,000 parsing pages according to the vendor; Agentic OCR and structured extraction; 5 concurrent parse, extract, and classify jobs; 5 indexes with 50 files each, 1 project; External data sources via file upload only; Community support |
| LlamaCloud Starter | $50 | Month | 40,000 credits/month included; Pay-as-you-go up to 400,000 credits or $500/month; List price $1.25 per 1,000 credits; 5 concurrent parse, extract, and classify jobs; 50 indexes with 500 files each, 1 project; Basic email support |
| LlamaCloud Pro | $500 | Month | 400,000 credits/month included; Pay-as-you-go up to $5,000/month; 20 concurrent parse, extract, and classify jobs; 100 indexes with 2,000 files each, 5 projects; Priority support via Slack Connect; Limited-time one-time bonus of 800,000 credits worth $1,000, business email domains only |
| Enterprise | contact sales | Contract | Custom credit volumes with volume discount; 5x higher rate limits; Enterprise SSO and MFA; SaaS or hybrid cloud deployment; 100 concurrent jobs per job type; Dedicated account manager |

## Sources
All details regarding plans, limits, and features are based on official vendor documentation and the primary sources verified below.

- https://www.llamaindex.ai/pricing
- https://www.llamaindex.ai/
- https://developers.api.llamaindex.ai/getting-started/
- https://developers.api.llamaindex.ai/api/python/resources/configurations/methods/retrieve/

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*Source: AI Compare Ninja (2026) - https://www.aicompare.ninja/en/tool/llamaindex*