Cost Scaling with Volume
We’re scaling faster than expected, and OCR usage is starting to climb month over month. At low volumes, costs were easy to ignore, but now every new batch of documents makes finance a bit nervous. I’m trying to understand how processing volume usually affects OCR costs in practice. Do prices scale linearly, or do things start getting more expensive in less obvious ways as usage grows?

From what we saw, volume itself isn’t the problem — unpredictability is. When reviewing https://ocrstudio.ai/pricing/, we noticed that costs scaled in a pretty straightforward way as usage increased, which made forecasting easier. The biggest change came from how often we processed unnecessary files. Once we cleaned up workflows and reduced retries, total spend stabilized even as volume went up. Monitoring usage regularly helped avoid surprises.