Claude vs Docling
Docling is cheaper per page; Docling is faster; only Claude supports handwriting, multilingual; only Docling supports bounding boxes.
Claudeanthropic/claude | Doclingibm/docling | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Vision model | Open source |
| Price | 14 credits / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $14.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 2.6 s / page | 2.2 s / page |
| Best for | Long dense documents | Structured export for RAG |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images, DOCX |
| Languages | 50+ languages | Latin scripts, CJK |
| Max pages per request | 100 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | No | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | No |
| On OCRRouter | Available | Coming soon |
Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.
What each one is
Use one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "anthropic/claude",
"fallbacks": ["ibm/docling"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}