Context management
Unstructured
Document parsing and structuring platform turning messy files into agent-ready element-level JSON
★ 15,709 on GitHub · last commit Nov 6, 2026
What it is
Unstructured sits upstream of most RAG stacks: chunk quality is decided at parse time, and the elements it preserves (tables, OCR, layout) are what a retrieval layer later indexes. The Apache-2.0 library and the commercial hosted platform are the same product family, so the open-core label is honest.
At a glance
- Business model
- Open source + paid cloud
- Pricing
- 10,000 free pages, then $0.015/page pay-as-you-go; enterprise (dedicated instance/VPC/bare metal) custom pricing page ↗
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Self-hosting
- Yes, can be self-hosted
- Access
- Python SDK and REST API; 40+ source connectors, 20+ destinations, event-driven updating
GitHub activity
This product has a public repository, so we read it nightly from the GitHub API. Stars measure developer attention, not quality or market share.
“Convert documents to structured data effortlessly. Unstructured is open-source ETL solution for transforming complex documents into clean, structured formats for language models. Visit our website to learn more about our enterprise grade Platform product for production grade workflows, partitioning, enrichments, chunking and embedding.” (repository description)
- Stars
- 15,709
- Forks
- 1,392
- Open issues
- 358
- Last commit
- Nov 6, 2026
- License (GitHub)
- Apache-2.0
Links and sources
- Official siteunstructured.io
- Pricingunstructured.io/pricing
- GitHub repositorygithub.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured
Facts verified nov 10, 2026; added nov 10, 2026. Vendor facts come from the vendor’s own pages; benchmark claims are self-reported unless we say otherwise.