An honest side-by-side look at ContractParser and Parseur — where each one is stronger, and which to pick based on what you actually need.
Parseur and ContractParser solve different problems.
Parseur is a mature email-first document parser. The original shape is inbound email parsing — every order confirmation, every delivery notice, every lead capture form — with an established integration ecosystem and a free tier that renews monthly.
ContractParser does one thing: take a pile of contracts, extract the fields you care about, return a spreadsheet. Pay-per-page. No subscription, no credit balance, no inbox to configure. The Verified tier audits every extracted field with narrative reasoning, not a confidence number.
If your job is ongoing email parsing, Parseur is the established choice. If your job is “I have a stack of contracts and I need a spreadsheet by end of day,” ContractParser is built for that.
Both price per page, but with very different commitment structures.
Parseur: monthly subscription with volume-based tiers. One credit = one page (an email counts as one credit regardless of length; a three-page PDF costs three credits). Unused credits expire at the end of the billing period. Free tier is 20 pages/month, renewable. Paid plans start around $149/month and scale up through Pro, Scale, and Enterprise tiers (up to 10M pages/month on enterprise contracts).
ContractParser: pay per page. $0.10/page Standard, $0.20/page Verified (includes the audit pass). No subscription. No monthly commitment. No expiring credits. $2.00 minimum per batch.
Parseur's free tier (20 pages/month, no card) is genuinely useful for small steady volume. If you process 15-20 documents a month, you never pay a cent.
Subscriptions are a bad fit for one-time or irregular workloads. Process a 250-contract backlog over a weekend, then nothing for two months — and you've paid for three months of a paid plan whose credits evaporated unused.
Quick math: 250 pages once, then three months of silence.
| Approach | What you pay |
|---|---|
| Parseur paid plan ($149/mo × 3 months) | $447 |
| ContractParser Standard (250 pages × $0.10) | $25 |
| ContractParser Verified (250 pages × $0.20) | $50 |
The math reverses at high steady volume. A team parsing thousands of pages a month every month lands on Parseur's higher-volume tiers at a lower per-page cost than ContractParser. Pick the model that matches the usage.
Parseur is inbox-first. You get a dedicated address like your-name@in.parseur.com, forward or BCC documents to it, and Parseur extracts on receipt. Manual upload works, but the primary shape is continuous ingestion. Unlimited mailboxes on all plans mean you can run many parallel parsers for different document types.
ContractParser is batch-first. Drag-drop a folder or a ZIP (up to 1,000 documents per batch), pick fields from a checklist or write a custom prompt, download a CSV. No inbox to configure, no mailbox to remember, no workflow to maintain. Built for someone with a pile right now.
These are different product shapes. Parseur is a workflow engine. ContractParser is a batch tool.
Both use modern AI extraction with strong accuracy on well-formatted documents. The difference is how each handles uncertainty.
Parseur's output is structured data — fields and values ready to ship downstream. It doesn't flag uncertain fields or re-check its own work.
ContractParser's Verified tier ($0.20/page) runs a second AI pass after the initial extraction. The second pass audits every field, catches contradictions between fields (a total that doesn't match unit price × quantity, dates that fall outside the contract period, renewal terms that conflict with termination terms), and returns narrative reasoning explaining what it flagged.
A Verified flag looks like this:
totalValue calculation appears confused — mixes per-site, per-year, and portfolio figures inconsistently; $4,752/site/year × 4 sites × 10 years = $190,080, not $220,777.52.
For high-volume routine workflows, this audit is overkill. For contract review where a single wrong number matters, it's the point.
Parseur wins here. Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, Airtable, native webhooks, and thousands of downstream apps. Custom Python post-processing is available on higher tiers. Public REST API is included.
ContractParser currently imports directly from Salesforce (pick contracts attached to your Salesforce records) and exports CSV. Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, and Dropbox imports are planned. No public API at launch — on the roadmap.
If you're wiring document parsing into a larger automated system, Parseur has more connectivity available today.
Parseur has been in market since 2016 and runs a legitimate product for a specific job: automated email and document parsing at scale. We're not trying to replace them for that use case — they're good at it.
We built ContractParser for a different buyer: someone with a pile of varied contracts who wants answers now, without configuring an inbox or paying a subscription to get through the backlog.