Which is cheaper, Docling or ABBYY FineReader?

Docling. Docling is 2 credits / page and ABBYY FineReader is 14 credits / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. Docling is strongest at structured export for rag, and ABBYY FineReader at office scans to word and pdf. 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.

Docling vs ABBYY FineReader

Docling is cheaper per page; ABBYY FineReader is faster; only Docling supports math; only ABBYY FineReader supports multilingual.

Get API key All models

	Docling`ibm/docling`	ABBYY FineReader`abbyy/finereader`
Type	Open source	OCR API
Price	2 credits / page	14 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages	$2.00	$14.00
Typical speed	2.2 s / page	2.0 s / page
Best for	Structured export for RAG	Office scans to Word and PDF
Inputs	PDF, images, DOCX	PDF, images
Languages	Latin scripts, CJK	190+ languages
Max pages per request	500	1,000
Tables	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Handwriting	No	No
Math	✓ Yes	No
Bounding boxes	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Confidence	No	No
Forms	No	No
Multilingual	No	✓ Yes
On OCRRouter	Coming soon	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

Docling

IBM's open-source document converter with a structured document model.

Docling details

ABBYY FineReader

Long-standing desktop OCR software. ABBYY also sells OCR SDKs and a cloud API. Price is an estimate.

ABBYY FineReader details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body

{
  "model": "ibm/docling",
  "fallbacks": ["abbyy/finereader"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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