Captain vs Reducto (2026)

Pros

• Best-in-class accuracy — tops Open-RAG-Benchmark with 20%+ improvement over standard RAG
• Turnkey setup with just two API calls to go from raw files to searchable knowledge base
• Multimodal by default — handles text, images, tables, scanned documents, and complex PDFs
• Broad data source integrations connecting to 1,000+ sources including S3, SharePoint, Confluence
• SOC 2 Type II certified with enterprise-ready security from day one

Cons

• Credit-based pricing varies significantly by document complexity, making budgeting unpredictable
• Early-stage 2-person team may concern enterprises needing SLA guarantees
• BYOC/on-prem deployment requires Enterprise plan with custom pricing

Pros

• Exceptionally well-funded with $108M total raised, indicating strong investor confidence
• Impressive growth with 6x increase in monthly volume, processing nearly 1 billion pages
• State-of-the-art MIT-built vision models for human-like document reading
• Strong enterprise adoption including Fortune 10 companies and top hedge funds
• Expanded capabilities with document generation (Reducto Edit) alongside parsing

Cons