Reducto Releases r-1: Single-Pass Document Parsing Model at 1 Cent Per Page with 20% Fewer Errors

Reducto has launched r-1, a document parsing model designed to process complex documents in a single forward pass rather than through multi-stage pipelines. The model achieves a 20% reduction in parsing errors compared to existing approaches, at a cost of just one cent per page. For developers building RAG pipelines, document ingestion workflows, or enterprise data extraction tools, r-1 represents a meaningful cost and quality improvement at the extraction layer. The single-pass architecture reduces latency and operational complexity, making it easier to scale document-heavy applications. Developers working with PDFs, forms, or mixed-layout documents should evaluate r-1 as a drop-in improvement over chunked or multi-model parsing stacks.