GPT vs Granite Docling
Granite Docling is cheaper per page; Granite Docling is faster; only GPT supports handwriting, multilingual; only Granite Docling supports bounding boxes.
GPTopenai/gpt | Granite Doclingibm/granite-docling | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Vision model | Open source |
| Price | 11 credits / page | 1 credit / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $11.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 2.4 s / page | 1.5 s / page |
| Best for | Messy scans, custom instructions | Small-model document conversion |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 50+ languages | English, experimental CJK and Arabic |
| Max pages per request | 100 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | No | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| 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
Granite Docling
Compact IBM vision model that converts pages to DocTags for the Docling pipeline.
Granite Docling detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "openai/gpt",
"fallbacks": ["ibm/granite-docling"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}