The Drive AI API

Turn any file or URL into structured, verified data.

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About The Drive AI API

The Drive AI API is a developer platform for turning files and URLs into structured, verified data. You describe the fields you need as a schema and the API returns answers with confidence scores, source citations and a reasoning trace, rather than raw text you still have to parse. It handles 107+ formats including PDFs, Office documents, images, audio, video and live websites, and can work through scanned documents using OCR with vision-based proofreading.

Use Cases

Finance teams verifying invoices against purchase orders and flagging mismatched totals or duplicate billing.
Legal teams extracting parties, dates, obligations and termination clauses from long contracts.
Healthcare providers pulling structured fields out of scanned patient records and lab reports.
Real estate teams reading leases and closing documents into a consistent schema.
Developers embedding document intelligence into their own product without building an extraction pipeline.

Key Features

Instant URL previews
Supports 67+ formats
No signup or API key needed
Rate limits for different plans
Customizable output options

Pricing

Usage-based on a credit system. The free tier includes 100 credits per month at 30 requests/minute. Pro is $0.01 per credit at 120 requests/minute. Enterprise is custom volume pricing with an SLA. Operations are priced individually: Extract costs 1 credit per page, Analyze 2 credits per page, and Cross-Analyze 5 credits per document plus 3 per page.

Pros & Cons

Pros

+ Schema-driven output returns typed fields rather than raw text, so there is no parsing layer to maintain.
+ Every answer carries a confidence score and a source citation, which makes results auditable.
+ Handles 107+ file formats plus live URLs, including JavaScript-heavy pages.
+ Cross-Analyze validates documents against each other, such as invoices against contracts.
+ Scales to 1000+ page documents and multi-page tables without manual chunking.

Cons

- Developer-oriented: it is an API, so using it requires integration work rather than a ready-made UI.
- Credit-based pricing means cost scales with document volume and page count.
- The free tier's 100 credits per month is small for anything beyond evaluation.

Frequently Asked Questions

What file formats does The Drive AI API support?

Over 107 formats, including PDFs, Office documents, images, audio, video, code files and websites. Scanned documents are handled with OCR and vision-based proofreading.

How is it different from a plain OCR or text-extraction API?

You define a schema of the fields you want and it returns verified, computed values with confidence scores and source citations, instead of returning raw text for you to parse.

Can it analyze a URL rather than an uploaded file?

Yes. It accepts URLs directly, including dynamic JavaScript-heavy pages, and can optionally follow links for multi-page research.

What does it cost?

It runs on credits. The free tier gives 100 credits per month, Pro is $0.01 per credit, and Enterprise is custom-priced. Extract is 1 credit per page, Analyze 2, and Cross-Analyze 5 per document plus 3 per page.