Extend AI alternatives for lease abstraction, with Extend pricing worked out per commercial lease

Both products read documents with AI and cite each value back to the page it came from. The difference is who finishes the job. Extend gives developers the parts. LeaseAbstracts gives a lease team the finished abstract.

If you want to see where the rest of the market sits, our best lease abstraction software comparison ranks the lease-specific tools, and the Docugami pricing and alternatives page covers the other general document AI platform that publishes its rates.

Extend publishes everything you need to do the math. Its pricing page lists three plans. Pay As You Go includes 10,000 credits, then charges $0.0125 per credit with no contract and no monthly minimum. Scale is $500 a month with 50,000 credits included and $0.01 per additional credit. Enterprise is custom per-credit pricing with VPC deployment, SSO and dedicated engineering. Extend's FAQ says extraction costs 3 credits per page plus 2 credits per page for the automatic parse, and gives its own example: a 10-page extraction is 50 credits, about $0.63 on Pay As You Go.

Applied to commercial leases, which is our arithmetic on Extend's published rates:

Extend also sells Light modes, 0.5 credits a page to parse and 0.7 to extract, roughly four times cheaper, at some cost in depth. The 10,000 free credits cover about 2,000 pages, roughly 33 sixty-page leases, which is enough to prototype. Scale's 50,000 included credits cover about 10,000 pages a month, roughly 166 sixty-page leases, so the $500 floor only reaches about $3 a lease if you actually run that volume. For comparison, LeaseAbstracts counts leases, not pages: $3.27 a lease on Solo at full use, about $1.99 on Team and about $1.60 on Firm. Our full plan list is on the pricing page, and the lease abstraction software pricing roundup lists every vendor that publishes a figure.

The credit cost is the small number. The bigger one is the work between an extraction API and a lease abstract your team can rely on. In our judgment, a lease team going the Extend route needs to own each of these:

• The schema. Rent schedule rows with start and end dates, escalation method, renewal and termination options with notice windows, CAM, tax and insurance pass-throughs, caps, security deposit, guaranty, assignment rights. Each field needs a type and a rule for what counts as an answer.
• Amendment logic. A third amendment that changes the rent and extends the term has to supersede the base lease for those fields only. An extraction call reads documents. It does not decide which document controls.
• Critical date checks. Notice deadlines are calculated from expiration dates and option windows. Somebody has to write and test that logic, which is what our critical date extraction page does out of the box.
• Exports. Getting fields into Yardi or MRI means mapping to their import formats. See the field maps on our Yardi lease abstraction and MRI lease abstraction pages.
• Evaluations and upkeep. Extend includes an evaluation suite, which is good practice, but somebody still has to build a test set of your leases and rerun it when the schema changes.

For a software company, that is a normal project. For a lease administration team, it is a project nobody budgeted.

Being straight about this saves a trial. Extend is the stronger choice in four situations.

• You are building a product. A proptech, lending or property management software company that needs lease extraction inside its own app should buy infrastructure, not someone else's finished interface.
• Leases are one document type among many. If the same pipeline has to handle invoices, insurance certificates, loan packets and leases, one API with per-page billing is simpler than several point tools.
• You need deployment control. Extend offers VPC and hybrid deployment, custom data retention and a HIPAA BAA add-on. LeaseAbstracts runs in our cloud.
• Your volume is very high and very uniform. With Light modes and Scale pricing, a large, consistent document flow can get below a dollar or two per lease in credits, provided the engineering is already paid for.

If none of those describe you, and the actual problem is a stack of executed leases that someone has to turn into reliable data, the finished product will be cheaper in hours long before it is cheaper in credits.

Most lists of Extend alternatives compare developer platforms with each other. That is the right list if you are a developer. If you are buying for leases, sort by the job instead.

We cover the configured-agent route in detail on the Kolena lease abstraction pricing and alternatives page.

• Bring your worst lease. A scanned original with three amendments and a side letter. Ask which rent is payable today and which renewal option is still open. That is the question an abstract exists to answer.
• Count the hours, not just the credits. On Extend, add the time to write and test the schema and the export. On a lease tool, time how long a reviewer needs to confirm each abstract against its source.
• Check the export end to end. Load one finished abstract into the system you actually use, whether that is Excel, Yardi or MRI, and see what breaks.
• Price your real volume. Multiply your page counts by 5 credits for Extend, or count your leases per month for a per-lease plan, and compare the totals for a full year.