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Your own API key, or the AI included.

Try everything in Essential free for 3 days, with no file limit. Then choose: a lifetime license with your own API key, or BatchAI Cloud with the AI included.

Free 3-day trial

  • Unlimited files per batch
  • Excel, CSV, Word and Markdown export
  • Cost estimate before every batch
  • No key? 100 pages with BatchAI Cloud

Starts with your first batch, with everything in Essential, with your own API key or BatchAI Cloud; no card, no account.

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Do you have an API key?

Two situations: pick yours. It decides who pays for the AI. What's an API key?

Lifetime license

One payment, for good. The AI is paid separately, to your provider.

Included, for life

  • The app for life, every 1.x version
  • 1, 3 or 10 computers, with the features of the plan
  • Your own API key (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini), or a local server from Pro

Not included

The AI, paid to your provider (usually $5 of credit to start). Without a key or a local server, no file is processed.

The license doesn't include the AI: you need your own API key. No API key? BatchAI Cloud includes the AI

7-day money-back guarantee Compare the features of each plan

BatchAI Cloud

The AI included, no API key. A monthly subscription, cancel anytime.

Included while subscribed

  • The AI (Claude), with no API key or account at a provider
  • 3,000 to 30,000 pages a month depending on the plan, shared across your computers
  • The app and the plan's features, cancel anytime

Not included

Your own API key or a local server, and the app once the subscription ends

Your files go through our server in Europe to Anthropic, in memory only: never stored.

With a lifetime license: from $19/month. Free trial: 100 pages included.

Compare plans

Everything in each plan, line by line. The free trial includes everything in Essential, with no file limit.

Features included in the free trial and in the Essential, Pro and Team licenses
Free trial Free, 3 days Try it free Essential $79 once, plus tax + your own API key for the AI Pro $149 once, plus tax + your own API key for the AI Team $349 once, plus tax + your own API key for the AI
License
Computers This computer 1 3 10
Duration 3 days Lifetime Lifetime Lifetime
All 1.x updates Included Included Included Included
7-day money-back guarantee Not included Included Included Included
Batches
Unlimited files per batch Included Included Included Included
Simultaneous requests One request = one file, or one part of a large PDF. More simultaneous requests is faster, not more expensive. 4 Up to 8 Up to 20 Up to 32
Several batches at once Included Included Included Included
Your own API key: Claude, ChatGPT (OpenAI) or Gemini The AI isn't included: your provider bills it, often a few cents per batch. Included Included Included Included
Spreadsheet, text per file or synthesis report Included Included Included Included
Export to Excel, CSV, Word and Markdown Included Included Included Included
Cost and time estimates, cost cap Before every batch, then live Included Included Included Included
Pause and resume Included Included Included Included
Review and fix values by hand Included Included Included Included
Time savers
Presets: repeat jobs in one click Included Included Included Included
Learns from your corrections Included Included Included Included
Automatic checks and duplicate detection Included Included Included Included
Line items and multi-document PDFs Included Included Included Included
Economy mode: the AI at half price (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini), results within 24 h Included Included Included Included
History, JSON export, copy to Google Sheets, file renaming Included Included Included Included
Industry template packs Included Included Included Included
Accounting exports: DATEV, FEC, Xero, QuickBooks Not included Not included Included Included
Working together
Presets shared with your team Not included Not included Included Included
Local models: Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM Files never leave your network Not included Not included Included Included
Automation
Watched folder: new files processed automatically Not included Not included Not included Included
Webhook: results sent to Zapier, Make or n8n Not included Not included Not included Included

BatchAI Cloud plans have the features of the license of the same level, except those that use your own AI: your own API key, local models and economy mode.

Choose a lifetime license or BatchAI Cloud

Every license: lifetime use, all 1.x updates, Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini with your own API key. Move it to a new computer anytime.

Secure checkout by Lemon Squeezy, which adds the tax due in your country. License keys by email, one per computer.

More than 10 computers? Take Team, then add more at $25 each from the app's License screen. The keys arrive by email.

Do the math

The subscription math.

Online extraction tools charge by the page, every month. With your own API key, you pay the AI at cost and the app once.

  • Your own API key You pay Anthropic, OpenAI or Google directly, at their price. No markup, no credits.

  • The app, $79 once No monthly fee on top, whatever your volume.

100 pages a month

Online extraction tool
$588
BatchAI Local Essential + your key
$79
You keep
$509 86% less

BatchAI Cloud, no key · $348 (Cloud Essential, 40% less)

1,000 pages a month

Online extraction tool
$1,548
BatchAI Local Essential + your key
$83
You keep
$1,465 94% less

BatchAI Cloud, no key · $348 (Cloud Essential, 77% less)

10,000 pages a month

Online extraction tool
$5,988
BatchAI Local Essential + your key
$118
You keep
$5,870 98% less

BatchAI Cloud, no key · $828 (Cloud Pro, 86% less)

100,000 pages a month

Online extraction tool
$44,388
BatchAI Local Essential + your key
$469
You keep
$43,919 98% less

BatchAI Cloud, no key · Over 30,000 pages: your own key

AI with Claude Haiku 5.5 at public prices. Online tool: cheapest public plan of a typical extraction tool for the same volume, October 2026. Estimate yours

AI cost

What the AI will cost you.

Usually a few cents to a few dollars a month, billed by your provider.

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≈ $0.33 per 1,000 pages at public prices.

Your estimated AI bill

$0.13per month

400 pages a month with Claude Haiku 5.5, billed by Anthropic.

First year

BatchAI Local Essential + your key
$80.56
Online extraction tool
$1,548

Over 3 years

BatchAI Local Essential + your key
$83.68
Online extraction tool
$4,644

At 400 pages a month, an online extraction tool costs $129 a month. You keep $1,467 in the first year.

No key? Cloud Essential: $29/month, so $348 the first year, 77% less than the online tool.

≈ Estimate at public API prices as of October 25, 2026; your provider's invoice prevails. About 2,000 input and 250 output tokens per page, as in the app. Online tool: cheapest public plan of a typical extraction tool for the same volume, October 2026.

Next month's folder, done in minutes.

Free 3-day trial with everything in Essential and no file limit. Then a lifetime license from $79 with your own API key, or BatchAI Cloud from $29/month with the AI included.

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