GLM-OCR vs Donut
Donut is cheaper per page; Donut is faster; only GLM-OCR supports tables, math, bounding boxes, confidence, multilingual; only Donut supports forms.
GLM-OCRzai/glm-ocr | Donutnaver/donut | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | 2 credits / page | 1 credit / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $2.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.3 s / page | 1.0 s / page |
| Best for | Low-cost general documents | Receipt and form fields after fine-tuning |
| Inputs | PDF, images | images |
| Languages | 100+ languages | English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 100 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | No |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | No |
| Forms | No | ✓ Yes |
| 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
Donut
OCR-free document understanding model. Fine-tuned for receipts, forms and document Q&A.
Donut detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "zai/glm-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["naver/donut"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}