Granite Docling vs Chunkr
Granite Docling is cheaper per page; Granite Docling is faster; only Chunkr supports multilingual.
Granite Doclingibm/granite-docling | Chunkrchunkr/chunkr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | OCR API |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 14 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $14.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.5 s / page | 3.0 s / page |
| Best for | Small-model document conversion | Layout-aware chunks for RAG |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images, DOCX |
| Languages | English, experimental CJK and Arabic | Multilingual |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 1,000 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| 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
Granite Docling
Compact IBM vision model that converts pages to DocTags for the Docling pipeline.
Granite Docling detailsChunkr
Document parsing API that segments and chunks pages for RAG. Self-hostable version available.
Chunkr detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "ibm/granite-docling",
"fallbacks": ["chunkr/chunkr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}