Document parsing is cheaper than you think, then it isn't

Parsing documents with AI sounds like a solved problem until you ship it to production. That's the takeaway from a recent Databricks post on the hidden costs of document parsing at scale.

The issue isn't that AI can't read your documents — it can. The issue is that it gets expensive fast once you're actually running it in production. You pay for the model calls, the tokens, the retries when the model gets confused, and the infrastructure sitting behind all of it. The costs add up quietly.

Why this matters for us: las empresas que usan IA para documentar, procesar contratos y facturas están descubriendo que la factura mensual no es tan barata como parecía — y si no la ves venir, te muerde.