OpenRouter launches Extractions API alpha

This turns document parsing into a simpler, provider-agnostic API primitive, though the alpha’s model-specific limits still require careful routing.

• –Returns typed JSON fields for values such as names, totals, dates, lists, and estimates
• –Clairic handles multimodal extraction, while ScaleDown targets PDFs and Mercury Decide focuses on text
• –Input pricing ranges from $0.02 to $0.10 per million tokens, with free output
• –Provider differences around file types, field support, confidence scores, and limits make fallback logic important
• –Alpha status means request and response schemas may still change