Affinda alternatives

Affinda sells four things. Affinda Extract is the document platform: "turn documents into decision-ready data" through ingestion from inboxes, portals and storage, then splitting, classification, extraction, validation and integration. Affinda Resume Parser is the product the company is best known for, parsing CVs in "50+" languages for SEEK, Bayt.com and others. Affinda Gateway sits between a company and its AI providers to cut spend. Affinda Deployment is a consulting arm offering "AI adoption and enablement" and "applied AI engineering", with "70+ deployments delivered".

Extract's document list spans invoices and receipts, IDs and proof of address, bank statements, ACORD insurance packs, contracts and certificates, and bills of lading and proofs of delivery. Configuration is conversational: the Extract Agent lets users describe a document in plain language rather than define a schema. Affinda stresses traceability ("every value, traceable to the document it came from") and routes exceptions "on failed validation rules, not low confidence", with an embeddable review UI. Integrations named are the API, Zapier and Power Automate. Deployment options are multi-tenant SaaS, single-tenant, customer VPC or self-hosted, on AWS regions worldwide, with ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR and a HIPAA-compliant option.

Pricing for Extract is usage-based and unpublished as of October 2026. A two-week trial includes 200 credits; Monthly bills usage in arrears with no commitment; Annual is a commitment with usage drawn down and overage at the committed rate. "Our standard billing unit for credits is pages." Add-ons cover custom infrastructure, compliance, support and services. The Resume Parser does publish a floor: hosted from US$3,600 a year for 66,000 documents, self-hosted from US$12,000 a year for 500,000. Affinda says it serves 2,800+ customers in 85+ countries and has processed 1B+ pages; Forbes Australia reported in November 2024 that the Toner brothers' company had raised $10 million at a $120 million valuation and then served 1,500 customers in 75 countries.

Mirage is a forward-deployed AI engineering company. Its engineers deploy agents inside the client's own ERP, TMS or estimating system and run them in production, following five steps: Observe, Map, Build, Run, Expand. At Biodéal, a purchase order goes from email to an order ready in SAP Business One in a median of 48 seconds, with about 7% flagged for a human check. At Transwin, manual data entry on freight documents fell 70%. A proof of concept on the client's documents comes one week after the first meeting; the first workflow is in production in 4 to 6 weeks.

Affinda is the one platform on this site's comparison list that also sells engineers. The difference is still real: Affinda Deployment is a consulting offer next to a product that developers integrate themselves; Mirage's engineering is how every deployment is delivered, inside the client's systems, in logistics, construction, mining and manufacturing, with the result measured as the record in the system rather than the data out of the API.

Start with who will carry the data the last mile. If you have developers who will call an API or build a Power Automate flow into your systems, Affinda Extract gives them a traceable, rule-validated feed and a self-hosted option. If you do not, Mirage's engineers carry it, and the measure of success is the record in the ERP or TMS.

Then the documents. Resumes, contracts, insurance packs and IDs are Affinda's references. Orders, freight paperwork, customs data, bids and drawings are Mirage's. Bills of lading appear on both lists; only Mirage publishes a freight deployment.

Then the meter. Affinda bills pages, monthly or against an annual commitment, with prices on request for Extract. Mirage charges a launch fee and a monthly subscription scoped in the first conversation. Count your pages and decide which you would rather forecast.