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LlamaCloud

LlamaCloud is the managed document parsing, extraction, indexing, and retrieval platform from LlamaIndex. It exposes REST APIs at https://api.cloud.llamaindex.ai for LlamaParse (document parsing to Markdown/JSON), managed ingestion pipelines and indexes, document management, retrieval, and LlamaExtract (schema-driven structured extraction), all secured with a Bearer API key. This is the hosted cloud platform, distinct from the open-source LlamaIndex framework.

LlamaCloud publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Documents API, Extraction API, Parsing API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include AI, Document Parsing, Extraction, Indexing, and Retrieval.

LlamaCloud’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.

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39.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
5 APIs
AIDocument ParsingExtractionIndexingRetrievalRAG

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scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
Composite quality — 39.4/100 · thin
Contract Quality 15.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

LlamaCloud Documents API

Files and pipeline documents.

LlamaCloud Extraction API

LlamaExtract schema-driven structured extraction.

LlamaCloud Parsing API

LlamaParse document parsing jobs and results.

LlamaCloud Pipelines API

Managed ingestion and indexing pipelines.

LlamaCloud Retrieval API

Query a managed index for relevant chunks.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

LlamaCloud API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Llamacloud Plans Pricing

5 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Llamacloud Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Llamacloud Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Llamacloud Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Llamacloud Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Llamacloud Agentic Access

19 operations · 8 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

19 operations · 8 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: llamacloud
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/llamacloud/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: LlamaCloud
kind: company
description: LlamaCloud is the managed document parsing, extraction, indexing, and retrieval platform from LlamaIndex. It
  exposes REST APIs at https://api.cloud.llamaindex.ai for LlamaParse (document parsing to Markdown/JSON), managed ingestion
  pipelines and indexes, document management, retrieval, and LlamaExtract (schema-driven structured extraction), all secured
  with a Bearer API key. This is the hosted cloud platform, distinct from the open-source LlamaIndex framework.
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/llamacloud.png
tags:
- AI
- Document Parsing
- Extraction
- Indexing
- Retrieval
- RAG
created: '2026-06-20'
modified: '2026-06-20'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: llamacloud:llamacloud-documents-api
  name: LlamaCloud Documents API
  description: Files and pipeline documents.
  humanURL: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaparse
  baseURL: https://api.cloud.llamaindex.ai/api/v1
  tags:
  - Documents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/llamacloud-documents-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaparse
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/cloud-api-reference/category/parsing
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/llamacloud.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/python/cloud/llamacloud/guides/api_sdk
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/cloud-api-reference
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/cloud-api-reference
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaextract
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/python/cloud/llamaextract/getting_started/api
- aid: llamacloud:llamacloud-extraction-api
  name: LlamaCloud Extraction API
  description: LlamaExtract schema-driven structured extraction.
  humanURL: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaparse
  baseURL: https://api.cloud.llamaindex.ai/api/v1
  tags:
  - Extraction
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/llamacloud-extraction-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaparse
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/cloud-api-reference/category/parsing
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/llamacloud.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/python/cloud/llamacloud/guides/api_sdk
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/cloud-api-reference
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/cloud-api-reference
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaextract
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/python/cloud/llamaextract/getting_started/api
- aid: llamacloud:llamacloud-parsing-api
  name: LlamaCloud Parsing API
  description: LlamaParse document parsing jobs and results.
  humanURL: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaparse
  baseURL: https://api.cloud.llamaindex.ai/api/v1
  tags:
  - Parsing
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/llamacloud-parsing-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaparse
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/cloud-api-reference/category/parsing
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/llamacloud.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/python/cloud/llamacloud/guides/api_sdk
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/cloud-api-reference
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/cloud-api-reference
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaextract
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/python/cloud/llamaextract/getting_started/api
- aid: llamacloud:llamacloud-pipelines-api
  name: LlamaCloud Pipelines API
  description: Managed ingestion and indexing pipelines.
  humanURL: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaparse
  baseURL: https://api.cloud.llamaindex.ai/api/v1
  tags:
  - Pipelines
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/llamacloud-pipelines-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaparse
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/cloud-api-reference/category/parsing
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/llamacloud.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/python/cloud/llamacloud/guides/api_sdk
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/cloud-api-reference
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/cloud-api-reference
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaextract
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/python/cloud/llamaextract/getting_started/api
- aid: llamacloud:llamacloud-retrieval-api
  name: LlamaCloud Retrieval API
  description: Query a managed index for relevant chunks.
  humanURL: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaparse
  baseURL: https://api.cloud.llamaindex.ai/api/v1
  tags:
  - Retrieval
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/llamacloud-retrieval-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaparse
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/cloud-api-reference/category/parsing
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/llamacloud.postman_collection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/python/cloud/llamacloud/guides/api_sdk
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/cloud-api-reference
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/cloud-api-reference
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaextract
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai/python/cloud/llamaextract/getting_started/api
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/llamacloud-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/llamacloud-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/llamacloud-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/run-llama
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/llamaindex
- type: Website
  url: https://cloud.llamaindex.ai
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developers.llamaindex.ai
- type: Plans
  url: plans/llamacloud-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/llamacloud-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/llamacloud-finops.yml
- url: https://www.llamaindex.ai/blog
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com