Reducto launches r-1 at 1 cent per page for document parsing

Adit Abraham and Raunak Chowdhuri launched Reducto's preview document model after the company raised $108M, pricing r-1 at 1 cent per page.

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Why it matters

Document ingestion is becoming a model layer of its own. If Reducto's claimed gains hold under independent testing, AI builders could replace multi-tool parser stacks with a cheaper API.

Reducto ships r-1, promising fewer parsing errors for 1 cent a page — Adit Abraham and Raunak Chowdhuri are collapsing a multi-model pipeline into one preview model, backed by $108M and a $5,000 switcher credit.

Reducto, the document-intelligence startup founded by Adit Abraham and Raunak Chowdhuri, launched r-1 in preview on September 1st at a company-advertised price of 1 cent per page. It is positioning the model as a replacement for the OCR, layout and vision-language components often assembled into document pipelines.

Abraham and Chowdhuri built Reducto around the premise that parsing errors undermine the AI systems using the resulting data.…

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