LlamaCloud

LlamaCloud is the hosted platform from the LlamaIndex team for parsing documents and building retrieval pipelines. Its parser handles messy PDFs, tables and slides, and its indexing service turns them into something an LLM app can query.

The goal is to skip the tedious part of RAG projects, where getting clean text out of real-world files takes more time than the model work. You can start with an API call and a few settings.

It fits teams already using LlamaIndex, though the API can be used from any stack. Costs depend on pages parsed.