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Claude vs Donut

Donut is cheaper per page; Donut is faster; only Claude supports tables, handwriting, math, multilingual; only Donut supports forms.

Claudeanthropic/claudeDonutnaver/donut
TypeVision modelOpen source
Price14 credits / page1 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$14.00$1.00
Typical speed2.6 s / page1.0 s / page
Best forLong dense documentsReceipt and form fields after fine-tuning
InputsPDF, imagesimages
Languages50+ languagesEnglish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean
Max pages per request100100
Tables✓ YesNo
Handwriting✓ YesNo
Math✓ YesNo
Bounding boxesNoNo
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNo✓ Yes
Multilingual✓ YesNo
On OCRRouterAvailableComing soon

Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.

What each one is

Claude

General vision model with careful reading of long, dense documents.

Claude details

Donut

OCR-free document understanding model. Fine-tuned for receipts, forms and document Q&A.

Donut details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "anthropic/claude",
  "fallbacks": ["naver/donut"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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