MinerU
Transforms complex documents like PDFs and Office docs into LLM-ready markdown/JSON for your Agentic workflows.
Our verdict
A usable project with some maintenance caveats. This assessment is derived from GitHub's own repository metrics on 2026-08-30, not from hands-on testing.
Transforms complex documents like PDFs and Office docs into LLM-ready markdown/JSON for your Agentic workflows. The project is written primarily in Python, published without a recognised SPDX licence, and has 78,777 stars and 6,624 forks on GitHub. 99 contributors have committed to it, and the most recent push was 2026-08-30. The latest tagged release is v4.0.0a6 (2026-08-14). Figures come from the GitHub API on 2026-08-30 and are refreshed daily; the score below weighs adoption, maintenance, release discipline, contributor breadth, licence clarity and issue hygiene.
Repository
- Licence
- Not declared
- Language
- Python
- Last push
- 2026-08-30
Releases
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v4.0.0a6MinerU 4.0.0a6 -
mineru-3.4.5-releasedmineru-3.4.5-released -
v4.0.0a5MinerU 4.0.0a5 -
v4.0.0a4MinerU 4.0.0a4 -
v4.0.0a3MinerU 4.0.0a3 -
v4.0.0a2MinerU 4.0.0a2
Pros and cons
Pros
Cons
Pricing
- Free tierYes
- LicenceNot declared
- Self-hostYes, source is public
- Public price listNot published
MinerU does not publish a web price list. For consumer apps that usually means pricing appears inside the product; for enterprise tools it means talking to sales. Why we do this
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Price points are recorded when a price moves, not on a schedule, so a flat run means the price held. Release cadence comes from GitHub releases. A series appears only once we have watched it for long enough to have more than one observation.
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Side by side
| Tool | Our score | From | Free tier | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MinerU this page | 6.8 | - | Yes | ||
| Crawl4AI | 7.7 | - | - | ||
| Firecrawl | 7.7 | $16 | Yes | Developers building RAG pipelines and research agents | Visit |
| ScrapeGraphAI | 7.6 | $3 | Yes | ||
| Lightpanda | 7.3 | - | Yes | ||
| OpenDataLoader PDF | 7.3 | - | Yes | ||
| Context.dev | 6.5 | $25 | Yes |
Questions
Is MinerU free?
Yes. MinerU advertises a free tier on its own site.
How much does MinerU cost?
MinerU does not publish a web price list. For consumer apps that usually means pricing appears inside the product; for enterprise tools it means talking to sales.
Is MinerU open source?
Yes. MinerU is a public repository released under Not declared. You can self-host or inspect the source directly.
How is MinerU scored here?
MinerU scores 6.8 out of 10. That comes from a desk review of public evidence, which is capped at 8.5 out of 10: public pricing, documentation, maintenance signals and how much we could actually verify. Affiliate relationships are excluded from scoring entirely. The full rubric is published on our methodology page.