vs ELO Digital Office

PaperOffice AI vs ELO

On-prem ECM meets cloud API: 300+ tools, field extraction and partner tiers without named-user lock-in.

ELO is rolled out through partners — price and timeline follow the project. PaperOffice reverses that: try first, pay from 2 cents per page, and if an integrator is needed the partner earns 40–70% margin.

Key figures

WORM + Legal Holdtamper-evident
69ready document types
Full-text +semantic search
300+API/MCP tools
from €6.00per 1,000 pages

Made for real business. Not for hype.

From inbox to archive

Product UI from August 5, 2026 · from €6 per 1,000 pages

1 · Workspace

Document list with fields, preview and confidence — Pristine demo universe.
2 · Workflow / HITL

Approval queue with approve, reject and escalate in the same job path.
3 · Compliance / WORM

Retention, legal hold and revision on the document — deletion blocked.

In the same account

More than extraction

Extract

AI OCR with bounding boxes — 69 types, fields with location.

from €6 per 1,000 pages
HITL review

Seamless in the job path — task and document also on mobile.

Web + Mobile
Sign

SES signatures from the same credit balance.

SES from the balance
WORM archive

Audit-proof filing and audit trail.

included

vs ELO Digital Office

Comparison table

In this table: billing model only, not list amounts (as of 09/2026).

Criterion	PaperOffice	ELO Digital Office
Bounding boxes (word/line level)	Yes (word/line level, Surya OCR)	n/a
Sandwich PDF / searchable archive PDF	Yes — searchable archive PDF	n/a
Click-to-evidence / visual validation (HITL)	Yes — click-to-evidence / HITL	n/a
Structured IDP fields (ready types)	Zero-shot: any document type, 120+ languages	n/a
DMS/archive included (WORM, audit, legal hold)	Yes — WORM, audit trail, legal hold	Yes — records and archive: ELO eRecords for digital records management, audit-proof storage with retention and deletion periods.
Native MCP server (tool count)	Yes — 300+ API/MCP Tools	No vendor-supported MCP server — community projects only (as of 09/2026)
Pricing model	One credit balance for all features: from €6.00–€60.00 per 1,000 pages by quality tier	Per-named-user subscription plus the selected modules; cloud, managed service or on-premises. The vendor publishes no price list and no tier levels.
List price per 1,000 pages	Basic €20.00 / Premium €60.00 / Ultra €200.00 per 1,000 pages (2/6/20¢)	on request — Vendor publishes no list prices, as of 08/2026
Billing	from €6.00 per 1,000 pages (Elite) — same scale on every tier	n/a
NAS integration	Sole official DMS partner for QNAP and ASUSTOR	n/a

Source: https://ecm-suite.elo.com/en-us.html, retrieved 09/2026. Prices may change.

Vendor publishes no list prices, as of 08/2026

ELO Digital Office is a trademark of its respective owner. PaperOffice is not affiliated with or endorsed by ELO Digital Office. Competitor details are based on publicly available sources (as of 08/2026) and are provided without warranty.

Pricing model with qualification tiers

Our prices are public — including partner terms.

Unit: Price per 1,000 pages

Tier	Elite Partner (−70%)	Partner (−40%)	Enduser
Basic	€6.00	€12.00	€20.00
Premium	€18.00	€36.00	€60.00
Ultra	€60.00	€120.00	€200.00

Billing is internal in credits; amounts follow the selected currency (base: list price).

Elite terms after qualification — criteria and program are public: Pricing · Partner program

All plans and pricing Become a partner

When is ELO Digital Office the better choice?

Organizations running ELO as an established ECM with partner support and a client landscape often stay there — migrations are expensive when the estate fits.

When an API stack with credits and MCP without an ECM client matters, PaperOffice is the better fit.

Trust, verification & partnerships

Trust you can prove.

Verified in Claude and ChatGPT, certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022
and the sole official DMS partner of QNAP and ASUSTOR.

ISO/IEC 27001:2022

In scope:

Web, desktop & mobile apps
REST API & MCP interfaces
AI, document processing & workflows
Datacenter & offsite backup
Support, consulting & integration
BYOS interfaces

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Verified

Claude

Verified MCP connector.

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Verified

ChatGPT

Verified MCP plugin.

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Since 2019

QNAP

Sole official DMS partner.

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Since 2024

ASUSTOR

Sole official DMS partner.

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EU datacenterLocations in the EU
Access control & MFARoles and tenant isolation
Audit trailFully traceable
API + MCPOpen integration
BYOSYour AI. Your data. Your control.

Key differences

ELO Digital Office

ELO: classic DMS with named-user licenses and partner rollout. Filing and workflow are the core — API access and AI extraction follow edition and project.

PaperOffice AI

Document platform with API: result in the archive, one credit balance, hosted in the EU, MCP for AI agents.

Three decision axes

What happens to the result?

The result from ELO stays in that product context. PaperOffice keeps extraction and archive on the same document.

Contracts & billing

ELO sells via partners; there are no public end-customer prices. Extraction or signature can have their own contracts. PaperOffice bundles this in one account.

Where do your data run?

ELO stores and organizes files in its own model — residency depends on edition and hosting. PaperOffice runs its own EU servers and keeps extraction plus audit-proof filing together.

vs ELO Digital Office

Integrated in minutes

Copy llms-full.txt
https://api.paperoffice.ai/latest/docs/llms-full.txt
Paste into Claude, Cursor or your agent
Say what you want to build — the agent delivers the finished integration.

Or connect directly: MCP server for Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT →

Migration in 3 steps

Import & Migration API — documented in llms-full.txt.

Inventory from ELO

Prepare documents and metadata from ELO for ZIP/scan-source import (no price assumptions).

Import job in PaperOffice

Upload via the Import API and poll status — can run in parallel with ELO.

Workflows & MCP

After cutting over from ELO: connect HITL workflows; MCP via OAuth 2.1 or a User token (po_ut_ / po_gt_).

llms-full.txt MCP Extract hub

FAQ

Is PaperOffice a ELO alternative?

Yes. PaperOffice AI can be evaluated as an alternative to ELO — along license, self-service, GoBD/WORM and agents, API-first.

What does PaperOffice cost compared to ELO?

Basic 2¢, Premium 6¢, Ultra 20¢ per page — PaperOffice’s price list is public. For ELO Digital Office this shows the billing model only, not list amounts (often a user/module license rather than per page).

What specifically sets ELO apart from PaperOffice?

ELO primarily solves the core job described on this page. PaperOffice keeps extraction, archive (WORM), permissions, HITL and MCP on the same document — with a public per-page price list.

How do I migrate from ELO to PaperOffice?

From ELO: prepare inventory as ZIP/scan source, start an import job, then workflows via REST and MCP via OAuth 2.1 or a User token (po_ut_ / po_gt_). No mandatory partner project. llms-full.txt: Import & Migration.

Where is data processed — differently from ELO?

On our own servers in the EU — including audit-proof filing and an audit trail. Where ELO processes data is documented by the vendor.

Does switching from ELO require a partner project?

Moving from ELO typically starts with token + Import API — self-service instead of a mandatory project. Fastest with llms-full.txt.