LlamaParse

Data and Analytics · by LlamaIndex · Verified

Connector Turn your documents into agent-ready context for Claude

Install

In Claude, open Settings, then Connectors.
Find LlamaParse in the directory, or choose Add custom connector and paste the URL below.
Sign in to LlamaIndex and review what it asks to reach.

Connector URL

https://mcp.llamaindex.ai/mcp

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http llamaparse https://mcp.llamaindex.ai/mcp

Run in a terminal, then run /mcp in Claude Code to sign in.

Add in Claude Open on claude.com

About

Connect Claude to LlamaParse to read, search, and pull structured data from your documents. LlamaParse helps you achieve the Pareto frontier in cost and accuracy, enabling you to read documents at 4x lower token costs and up to 5x higher accuracy.

LlamaParse is especially helpful when dealing with documents that include:

- Complex page layouts with multiple columns or nested sections that need dedicated layout parsing, not just text extraction

- Embedded visuals like charts, images, and tables that require structured visual parsing to extract accurate numbers

- Low-quality scans or handwriting that need specialized document processing beyond what general-purpose models provide

LlamaParse provides multiple SOTA capabilities for document understanding, including the ability to:

- Parse entire documents into structured markdown, JSON, or HTML, ready for downstream agentic reasoning

- Extract defined schemas of information from long documents to pull out only what's relevant

- Index documents and search across them with filesystem-style tools: locate relevant files, grep for pattern matches, read a file in full, or run hybrid retrieval

- Classify documents into known types

- Split document pages into individual pre-defined sections

We also offer LiteParse, our open-source parser, which works well for text-heavy PDFs with straightforward single-column layouts and no tables, charts, or scanned pages to interpret.

Requires a LlamaParse account.

Tools

addFilesToDirectory
classifyFile
createDirectory
createIndex
estimateFileComplexity
extractFile
findFilesInIndex
generateExtractionConfig
getIndexStatus
getUploadUrl
getUserProjects
grepFileFromIndex
listDirectories
listDirectory
listIndexes
parseFile
parseWithLiteParse
readFileFromIndex
retrieveFromIndex
splitFile
syncIndex
uploadFileByUrl

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Facts

Kind: Connector
Category: Data and Analytics
Made by: LlamaIndex
Runs: Remote server
Works in: Claude, Claude API, Claude Code, Claude Desktop
Sign-in: Required
Added: 2026-08-19
Source: Verified