# Google Document AI: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 29 judge labels across 1 category by 13 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/google-document-ai

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Intelligent document processing](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/intelligent-document-processing/index.md) | 4% | 7 | 24% | 29 |

## What the models said for it

- ""I have a developer" | Amazon Textract or Google Document AI | Rawest price per page ($0.0015). No markup." (Qwen 3.7 Flash, Document processing)
- "such as Azure AI Document Intelligence, Google Document AI, or Nanonets" (Llama 4 Maverick, Document processing)
- "For more technical users, Google Document AI offers a pay-as-you-go model with transparent pricing." (Mistral Small, Document processing)
- "Cloud APIs like Azure Document Intelligence, Amazon Textract, Google Document AI, or Mistral OCR" (Claude Haiku 4.5, Document processing)

## And against it

- "Avoid if you do not have a dedicated DevOps team to maintain the code." (Qwen 3.7 Flash, Document processing)
- "Google Document AI, Amazon Textract, and Azure Document Intelligence can provide strong extraction, but you may need to build validation, exception queues... They are risky choices" (Perplexity Sonar, Document processing)
- "Basic cloud extraction engines (e.g., basic AWS Textract, Google Document AI base models, Azure AI Document Intelligence)." (Gemini 3.5 Flash, Document processing)
- "Google Document AI for workloads that depend on long documents or synchronous processing. Limits depend on the processor" (GPT-6 Luna, Document processing)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Google Document AI, from 83 of the 92 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- g2.com: 35
- docsumo.com: 30
- nanonets.com: 21
- ciopages.com: 19
- research.isg-one.com: 18
- aiflowreview.com: 16
- grooper.com: 16
- parseur.com: 16
- gane.ai/index: 15
- hypatos.ai: 14

### Pages cited

- https://docsumo.com/blog/the-best-intelligent-document-processing-software: 24
- https://ciopages.com/buyer-guides/intelligent-document-processing: 19
- https://g2.com/categories/intelligent-document-processing-idp/small-business: 19
- https://aiflowreview.com/ai-document-processing-software: 16
- https://grooper.com/blog_posts/intelligent-document-processing-vendors: 16
- https://research.isg-one.com/buyers-guide/digital_technology/intelligent_document_processing/2024: 16
- https://nanonets.com/buyers-guide/best-intelligent-document-processing-software: 15
- https://larksuite.com/en_us/blog/intelligent-document-processing-software: 13

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.