Switching from Nanonets: cost per invoice

Switch from Nanonets if you want no monthly fee, or one request with a JSON schema rather than a trained model to set up. Veralens bills per token from a $5 top-up, with no subscription. To see the output first, run a sample in the playground.

Nanonets prices

Source: Nanonets pricing, checked 2026-10-18. The page does not say how many pages one block run covers, so we show no Nanonets price per invoice.

Cost at your volume

The Veralens column is the measured cost of our 2-page sample invoice (PDF, 20 line items, JSON against a schema), first on vera-1.0-high, then on vera-1.0-low. One Nanonets invoice costs the sum of the blocks you run, so the Nanonets column shows the plan floor.

Measured on 2026-10-11 on the sample invoice, one job per engine. Every Veralens response shows the job's cost.

How to switch

1. Get a key. Add funds in Billing, from $5, and create an API key.
2. Replace the model with a schema. In Nanonets you pick a model id; in Veralens you list the fields in the request.
3. Swap the call. Nanonets uses HTTP Basic auth with the API key as the username (curl -u 'KEY:'). Veralens uses a Bearer key, as below.
4. Compare on the same invoice. Send one sample to both and read the Veralens usage.cost against your Nanonets invoice line.

cat > body.json <<'EOF'
{
  "sources": [{ "type": "document",
    "data": "data:application/pdf;base64,..." }],
  "schema": { "type": "object", "properties": {
    "invoice_number": { "type": "string" },
    "total": { "type": "number" } } },
  "webhook_url": "https://your.app/hooks/veralens"
}
EOF
BASE=https://veralens.ai/api/v1
curl -X POST "$BASE/jobs/create" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer vl_your_secret_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data-binary @body.json

You get 201 with the job in pending. Veralens is asynchronous: take the result from the webhook, or poll GET /jobs/:jobId/get every 2 to 3 seconds. The finished job reports usage.cost.

When Nanonets is the better choice

• You want workflow blocks around the extraction: review steps, routing and integrations.
• You want to train a model on your own layouts.
• You want free credits to start. Nanonets gives $50; Veralens has no free balance.

Also compared: Mindee and Veryfi. For the wider market, see what document extraction costs per 1,000 pages.