Azure Document Intelligence vs Typhoon OCR
Typhoon OCR is cheaper per page; Azure Document Intelligence is faster; only Azure Document Intelligence supports forms, handwriting, bounding boxes, confidence.
Azure Document Intelligenceazure/document-intelligence | Typhoon OCRtyphoon/typhoon-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | Open source |
| Price | 15 credits / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $15.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.5 s / page | 1.8 s / page |
| Best for | Enterprise forms and IDs | Thai documents |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 300+ languages | Thai, English |
| Max pages per request | 2,000 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | No |
| Forms | ✓ Yes | 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
Azure Document Intelligence
Azure layout model with tables, selection marks and prebuilt invoice and ID readers.
Azure Document Intelligence detailsTyphoon OCR
Open vision model tuned for Thai and English documents, with Markdown output.
Typhoon OCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "azure/document-intelligence",
"fallbacks": ["typhoon/typhoon-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}Questions
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