LiteParse Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy LiteParse hosting and give your pipelines a private document parsing API on your own domain. xCloud runs the official LiteParse server image, pinned by digest, behind an nginx gateway that requires a generated API key, and publishes it over HTTPS in minutes — PDFs, DOCX and scans come back as text, markdown or JSON pages without leaving your server.

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What is LiteParse?

LiteParse is an open-source document parser from the LlamaIndex team. It focuses on fast, light parsing: spatial text extraction with bounding boxes, selective OCR for scanned pages, and output as markdown, JSON or plain text. Upstream describes it as running locally, without proprietary LLM features or cloud dependencies.

LiteParse server wraps the parser as an HTTP service, which is useful when your application is not written in Node.js, when several clients should share one parsing instance, or when you want a parsing endpoint behind your own infrastructure. This template runs the slim server image: one parser container with no database or cache, behind an API-key gateway.

From Sign-Up to a Live Parsing API In Just 3 Easy Steps

A self-hosted parser normally means a container, a gateway to keep it from being open to the internet, an API key, a domain and a certificate before the first document. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick LiteParse from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server — there are no extra fields to fill in.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official LiteParse server image, pinned by immutable digest and kept private, behind an nginx gateway that is the only published service. xCloud generates the API key and publishes the gateway over HTTPS on your domain. There is no data volume: documents are processed in memory.
Step 03
Send Your First Document
Copy the API key from the installation credentials, then POST a file: curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <key>" -F file=@document.pdf "https://your-domain/parse?markdown=true". There is no web page — LiteParse is an API.

Everything LiteParse Does, On Your Own Server

LiteParse runs in full here: a parsing API on your own domain, protected by a key only you hold.

PDFs, Office Files And Images
Upstream reads PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX and image files; QA verified PDF, DOCX and a scanned PDF. Office conversion uses LibreOffice inside the image.
Text, Markdown Or JSON Pages
One multipart POST to /parse returns JSON pages; add ?text=true or ?markdown=true for plain text or markdown that is ready for LLM and RAG pipelines.
Built-In OCR
Image-only scans are read with the bundled Tesseract OCR, verified on a scanned PDF. OCR, DPI and page limits are set per request in the optional config field.
Screenshots And OCR-Need Estimates
/screenshots returns page images as newline-delimited JSON, and /is-complex estimates per page whether a document needs advanced OCR.
Key-Protected Gateway
Every request needs the generated API key as a Bearer token; requests without it get a 401. The gateway also rate limits clients, caps uploads at 50 MB and times out slow calls.
Stateless By Design
Uploads are processed in memory and nothing is written to disk, so a Restart simply brings the same API back.

Everything You Need To Run Your Document Parsing API 24/7

Managed hosting for LiteParse, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

LiteParse deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
API key generated for you
Kept behind xCloud nginx
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With LiteParse

Feed documents to LLM and RAG pipelines
Convert PDFs, Office files and images to markdown or plain text through one request, without sending the files to a third-party service.
Read scanned documents
Pull text out of image-only scans with built-in OCR, and tune OCR, DPI and page limits per request.
Route documents by OCR need
Call /is-complex for a per-page estimate of whether a document needs advanced OCR before you decide how to process it.
Give an agent page images
Fetch page screenshots through /screenshots when a model or reviewer needs to see the page, not just its text.

LiteParse vs Alternatives

Docling Serve: Another document conversion API that turns PDFs, Office files and images into structured Markdown or JSON. xCloud also runs it as a OneClick app.
Unstructured API: An HTTP API that partitions PDFs, Office files, images and text into structured JSON for search and AI ingestion pipelines. Also available as a OneClick app.
LlamaParse: LlamaIndex's cloud-based document parser. Upstream recommends it over local LiteParse for dense tables, multi-column layouts, charts, handwriting and scanned PDFs; LiteParse is the self-hosted, local option.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for LiteParse hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom for large uploads or LiteParse beside other pipeline services.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. LiteParse itself is licensed by its maintainers under Apache-2.0.

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Ready To Run Your Own Document Parser?

LiteParse on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

How do I authenticate?

Send the generated API key as a Bearer token on every request: Authorization: Bearer <key>. Anonymous and wrong-key requests get a 401. The key is shown in the installation credentials.

Is there a web interface?

No. LiteParse is an API; use curl or your own code against /parse, /screenshots and /is-complex.

Does it keep my documents?

No. Uploads are processed in memory only and nothing is written to disk.

What file types work?

Upstream lists PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX and images. QA verified PDF, DOCX and a scanned, image-only PDF; Office conversion uses LibreOffice inside the image.

How do I set OCR, DPI or page limits?

Parser options are sent per request as a JSON string in the optional config form field. The server itself reads no environment settings.

What limits does the gateway apply?

It caps uploads at 50 MB, times requests out after 60 seconds and limits each client to about 5 requests per second.

Who should hold the API key?

Only callers you trust. Anyone with the key can use your server's resources and can set an OCR server URL in the config field, which makes the server call that address. LiteParse has no setting to restrict this, so the key is the protection.

What should I back up?

Nothing but the API key: there is no data volume. Keep the key private.

Backups in xCloud

What survives a restart?

The API comes back the same, because it is stateless. No documents or results are stored.

Does xCloud automatically update LiteParse?

No. Upstream publishes only a moving main tag for the server image, so the template pins it by immutable digest. Existing sites are not upgraded automatically; updating means moving to a new digest after reading upstream's release notes. Server-level backups and snapshots are available on every Cloud VPS.

What are the server requirements, and why does this page sell 6 GB?

The template's baseline asks for 1 CPU core, 512 MB of RAM and 4 GB of disk; measured peak use in QA was about 200 MiB across PDF, DOCX and OCR parses. The server buffers each whole upload in memory, so large files need proportionally more. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline.

Is xCloud officially partnered with LiteParse?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the LiteParse project or LlamaIndex has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source LiteParse project.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.