# LlamaIndex review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Document parsing and extraction platform for AI agents Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. LlamaIndex now centers on LlamaParse, a commercial platform that parses, extracts, splits, classifies and indexes documents so language models and agents can use them. The company also maintains the open-source LlamaIndex and Workflows libraries and LiteParse, a local parser. Pricing on the site is in credits. - **Category:** AI Agents - **Made by:** LlamaIndex - **Website:** https://www.llamaindex.ai - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you do not write code, as it is an API product. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, LlamaIndex has a free plan, and paid plans start at $500 per month (Pro), after pay-as-you-go from $0. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Pay-as-you-go plan: $0 a month with 10K free credits (about 1,000 pages), then $1.50 per 1,000 credits. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Pay-as-you-go | $0 per month, plus $1.50 per 1,000 credits | 10K credits included, 5 concurrent parse jobs, 1 project and basic community support. | | Pro | $500 per month, with credits at $1.25 per 1,000 | 400K credits included, 20 concurrent jobs, 5 projects and priority Slack support; an 800K-credit bonus is offered for a limited time. | | Enterprise | Custom | Volume credit discounts, 5x higher rate limits, SSO, VPC or hybrid deployment and a dedicated account manager. | Read from https://www.llamaindex.ai/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with LlamaIndex before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Startup program with free credits** (Startups): The pricing page invites startups to apply for free credits, dedicated support and community spotlights. Source: https://www.llamaindex.ai/pricing ## Key features - **Parse:** Turns PDFs, Office files, spreadsheets and images into text, markdown or JSON, with table, chart and layout handling and several accuracy tiers. - **Extract, classify and split:** Schema-based extraction agents pull structured fields from documents, with citations and confidence scores; documents can also be classified and split. - **Index:** A chunking and embedding pipeline prepares documents for retrieval in RAG applications. - **Document agent builder:** A builder turns natural-language descriptions into workflows, with starter templates and one-click deploys from GitHub repositories. - **Open-source libraries:** LlamaIndex, Workflows and LiteParse are open-source projects the company maintains for building AI apps and parsing documents locally. ## Good for - Developers feeding complex documents into RAG or agent pipelines - Teams automating document-heavy work such as invoices or claims - Builders who want open-source libraries with an optional paid parser ## Worth knowing - The pricing page covers LlamaParse only; the open-source LlamaIndex and Workflows libraries are separate and free. - Cost scales with pages: parsing starts at 1 credit a page and layout-aware modes cost more. - Pro is $500 a month; SSO, VPC deployment and custom BAAs need Enterprise. - Pricing is shown separately for US and Europe regions; the figures here are the US page. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. LlamaIndex's hosted product, LlamaParse, turns documents into text and structured data for language models, and the company also keeps open-source libraries. It is priced in credits, and Pro starts at $500 a month. - **Value for money: C.** Pay-as-you-go is $0 a month with credits at $1.50 per 1,000. Pro is $500 a month, well above the category's $150 dearest-tenth start. - **Free plan and trial: C.** 10K free credits, about 1,000 pages, with 5 concurrent parse jobs and 1 project. A document pile will use that fast. - **Features: B.** Parse, extract, classify, split and index, plus an agent builder and the open-source libraries. The listing shows no gap in the document-handling job. - **Ease of use: D.** No rating on record. It is used through an API and libraries, so developers do the setup. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web service and API, listed on AWS and Azure marketplaces with GitHub links. No desktop or phone app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from LlamaIndex's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI agents - LlamaIndex's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 81 of the 178 other AI agents we grade, and level with 41. - It stands best on features (B, above 133 of 178) and worst on ease of use (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $500 a month, against a middle price of $25 for the category: 95 of the 98 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 37 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-agents ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace LlamaIndex you would be making an AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $6,000 a year. LlamaIndex is open source, so there is a third way: take its code and run it yourself. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with AWS Marketplace, Azure Marketplace, GitHub **Tags:** AI agents, Open source, Workflow automation ## Alternatives - [LangGraph](https://toolgpa.com/tools/langgraph): Open-source framework for building controllable AI agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/langgraph-vs-llamaindex) - [CrewAI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/crewai): Multi-agent platform to build, run and govern AI agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/crewai-vs-llamaindex) - [Agno](https://toolgpa.com/tools/agno): Open-source agent runtime with a hosted control plane. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/agno-vs-llamaindex) - [Pydantic AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pydantic-ai): Typed Python SDK for building AI agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/llamaindex-vs-pydantic-ai) - [Griptape](https://toolgpa.com/tools/griptape): Visual AI workflows plus a Python framework for agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/griptape-vs-llamaindex) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.llamaindex.ai/pricing - https://www.llamaindex.ai Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/llamaindex Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).