Airparser vs Mailparser (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Airparser if

• Fits if you pull fields from invoices or lead emails into a spreadsheet or CRM
• Works for teams that want extraction without building templates

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you parse more than 20 items a month on the free plan
• Skip it if you want to pay monthly without checking, since the prices shown are annual-billing rates
• Watch out: credits expire each billing period and cannot be bought alone, and refunds are very limited
• Watch out: document retention is 30 to 180 days depending on plan

Pick Mailparser if

• Fits if you copy details from order or lead emails into a CRM by hand
• Works for emails that follow the same layout every time

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if your data arrives as scans or photos, because images can't be parsed and OCR is a separate product
• Not for you if you want a free plan, as it's 30 days and 30 credits and then you pay
• Tight if your email volume jumps about, since emails past your credits wait in a queue
• Pricey if you need multi-factor sign-in, duplicate detection or webhook retries, which are add-ons on Starter
• Too light for teams on Starter, which lists no team members; Professional at $33.95 adds 5

Airparser

• Prices shown are the annual-billing rates; the monthly-billing price is not shown in the default view.
• Credits are consumed per page or email, expire at the end of each billing period, and cannot be bought separately.
• Refunds are described as very limited, pointing buyers to the free plan first.
• Document retention ranges from 30 to 180 days depending on plan.

Mailparser

• There is no free plan: the trial lasts 30 days and includes 30 credits.
• Images and scanned documents cannot be parsed; the vendor points to its separate product, Docparser, for documents that need OCR.
• On Starter, multi-factor authentication, duplicate detection, webhook retries and modifying extracted data are paid add-ons, and no team members are listed.
• When a paid plan runs out of credits, new emails wait in the queue until more credits are bought, the plan is upgraded or the cycle resets.

Airparser

AI document parsing

Pulls fields from emails, PDFs (including scans), images, Word files, text, HTML, Excel and CSV without templates.

OCR

Every plan can parse images, scanned documents and handwritten text. One credit covers a page, email, image or HTML document.

Post-processing

Python code reformats, merges or filters extracted fields, and an AI assistant drafts the code from a plain-language description.

Integrations and API

Sends parsed data to Zapier, Make, n8n, Google Sheets, Airtable, Excel and webhooks, or programmatically through the API.

Human review and MCP

A review step lets a person approve extracted data, and an MCP server connects Airparser to AI assistants.

Mailparser

Custom parsing rules

Rules that you set up pull fields from an email's subject, header, body and attachments, and can capture details such as the sender and recipients.

Automatic rule generation and templates

A parser creator analyzes the structure of an email and generates rules for it, and a library of rule templates covers emails from popular sites in several industries.

Attachment parsing

Text is read from PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, CSV, TXT and XML attachments, and spreadsheet rows can be extracted as tables. Images and scanned documents are not supported.

Routing to inboxes

Emails in different formats can all be forwarded to one address; routing rules then pass each message to the inbox it belongs to, so no mail filters are needed on the sending side.

Exports, integrations and webhooks

Parsed data downloads as XLS, CSV, JSON or XML, or is sent on to tools such as Google Sheets and Salesforce, to Zapier, or to any endpoint by webhook.

Data manipulation and cleanup

Extracted data can be reformatted, with sums, minimums, maximums and calculated columns. Emails and parsed data can be erased automatically minutes, hours or days after parsing.

Airparser

• Trial$0

  20 credits a month, all features included, 30 days of document retention.

• Starter$33

  per month, billed annually

  100 credits a month, 30 days of retention, OCR, AI code assistant, API, webhooks and integrations.

• Growth$49

  per month, billed annually

  500 credits a month and 90 days of document retention.

• Business$149

  per month, billed annually

  2,000 credits a month, 90 days of retention and unlimited team members.

• Premium$249

  per month, billed annually

  5,000 credits a month, 180 days of retention and unlimited team members.

Mailparser

• Starter$24.95

  per month, billed yearly; $29.95 billed monthly

  3,000 emails a year on yearly billing or 250 a month on monthly billing, with 20 inboxes. Multi-factor authentication and duplicate detection are paid add-ons.

• Professional$33.95

  per month, billed yearly; $39.95 billed monthly

  6,000 emails a year or 500 a month, 30 inboxes, 5 team members and multi-factor authentication.

• Business$83.95

  per month, billed yearly; $99.95 billed monthly

  24,000 emails a year or 2,000 a month, 50 inboxes and 50 team members, with duplicate detection and automatic retries of failed webhooks included.

• Premium$249.95

  per month, billed yearly; $299.95 billed monthly

  120,000 emails a year or 10,000 a month, unlimited inboxes and team members, and the option to modify extracted data points included.

• EnterpriseCustom

  A quoted package with a custom number of parsing credits, unlimited inboxes and team members, and every add-on included.

Airparser

• Annual discount

  About 17% off with annual billing

  The pricing page says every plan has a discount of roughly 17% when billed annually, equal to two months free.

Mailparser

• Annual discount

  Lower monthly rate on annual plans

  The pricing page advertises a 20% saving on annual plans. Its listed prices are $24.95 a month billed yearly against $29.95 billed monthly for Starter, which works out to about 17%.