The self-hosted Nanonets alternative
Extracta: Extract invoice & receipt data with your own AI key — self-hosted, human-reviewed. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying Nanonets every month.
Stop renting Nanonets.
Extracta1 month of Nanonets costs what Extracta costs once.
Buy onceHow we counted: The $100 is the vendor's own monthly subscription line, not a volume estimate of ours — the actual bill depends on how many blocks each document runs, which is why the per-run prices are quoted in full rather than averaged into a single number. Extracta is $89 once and calls the model YOU configure with YOUR key, so the per-page cost is whatever your provider charges and nothing is metered by us.
Nanonets meters by RUN rather than by seat: a document costs whatever its blocks cost, so the bill follows volume instead of headcount.
“total cost = number of runs × block price”, their own page, read 2026-09-03
Nanonets publishes its own worked example of what a document costs end-to-end, and starts every account with free credits before any card.
“a typical invoice processing workflow runs 4-6 blocks per document”, their own page
Stay with Nanonets if you want the model, the infrastructure and the accuracy tuning delivered as a service, with support to call when a layout changes. Extracta is the opposite trade: one payment, your own API key, your own server, and a human review step before anything is accepted — no per-page meter, and no documents leaving the building except to the model you chose.
What Extracta deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.
Why owning beats renting Nanonets.
No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.
It never lives in Nanonets's cloud.
Records and users are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.
Self-hosted software can't be sunset or repriced out from under you.
The fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up and apply updates yourself. See the product page for its limits, and the full Extracta vs renting comparison.
Questions about moving off Nanonets.
Is my API key safe?
Will this run on shared hosting?
Do I need my own API key?
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- Nanonets: price checked 2026-09-03, source“no platform fees. no seat licenses ... $100/month for 100 credits ... $0.02 / run ... $0.10 / run ... $0.30 / run ... $50 in free credits, no card required”
Competitor prices change, so always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown. This vendor is tracked in the Price Observatory: every figure verbatim, dated, re-checked quarterly.