Which is cheaper, Claude or Kraken?

Kraken. Claude is 14 credits / page and Kraken is 1 credit / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. Claude is strongest at long dense documents, and Kraken at historical documents and manuscripts. Run a few of your own files through both and compare the output.

Yes. Put one as model and the other in fallbacks. If the first fails, the second reads the page, and you pay only for the one that answered.

Claude vs Kraken

Kraken is cheaper per page; Kraken is faster; only Claude supports tables, math; only Kraken supports bounding boxes.

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	Claude`anthropic/claude`	Kraken`kraken/kraken`
Type	Vision model	Open source
Price	14 credits / page	1 credit / page
Per 1,000 pages	$14.00	$1.00
Typical speed	2.6 s / page	1.5 s / page
Best for	Long dense documents	Historical documents and manuscripts
Inputs	PDF, images	images
Languages	50+ languages	Many scripts, incl. right-to-left
Max pages per request	100	500
Tables	✓ Yes	No
Handwriting	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Math	✓ Yes	No
Bounding boxes	No	✓ Yes
Confidence	No	No
Forms	No	No
Multilingual	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
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

Claude

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

Claude details

Kraken

OCR engine for historical documents and manuscripts, with trainable models for unusual scripts.

Kraken details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body

{
  "model": "anthropic/claude",
  "fallbacks": ["kraken/kraken"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

Questions

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