| Field | AI Horde | LlamaParse (LlamaCloud) |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Ongoing free tier · perpetual | Ongoing free tier · renewing-quota |
| What's free | Free crowdsourced text & image generation; anonymous API key '0000000000' (no registration), or register to earn kudos for priority | Free plan: 10,000 credits/month (up to ~10,000 pages at the cheapest parse tier, as low as 1 credit/page) |
| Rate limits | Queue-based priority via kudos (no fixed quota); anonymous requests get lowest priority under load | 5 concurrent jobs; 1 project; 5 indexes on the free plan |
| Expires | no expiry | no expiry |
| The catch | Community-powered volunteer network — model availability and speed vary with worker supply, so it is not a fixed-SLA service. No card, no phone. Kudos never expire and cannot be sold. | Credit-based (1,000 credits = $1.25); premium parse modes consume more credits per page. No card required. Document parsing for RAG (LlamaIndex). |
| Credit card | not required | not required |
| Phone verification | not required | not required |
| Commercial use | not confirmed | allowed |
| OpenAI-compatible | no | no |
| Modalities | text, image | ocr, text |
| Free models (sample) | no sample | no sample |
| Official docs | aihorde.net/ | www.llamaindex.ai/pricing |
| Last verified | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-08 |