Which is cheaper, Granite Docling or Nougat?

Granite Docling. Granite Docling is 1 credit / page and Nougat is 2 credits / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. Granite Docling is strongest at small-model document conversion, and Nougat at arxiv-style papers. 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.

Granite Docling vs Nougat

Granite Docling is cheaper per page; Granite Docling is faster; only Granite Docling supports bounding boxes.

Get API key All models

	Granite Docling`ibm/granite-docling`	Nougat`meta/nougat`
Type	Open source	Open source
Price	1 credit / page	2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages	$1.00	$2.00
Typical speed	1.5 s / page	3.0 s / page
Best for	Small-model document conversion	arXiv-style papers
Inputs	PDF, images	PDF, images
Languages	English, experimental CJK and Arabic	Mainly English
Max pages per request	500	200
Tables	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Handwriting	No	No
Math	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Bounding boxes	✓ Yes	No
Confidence	No	No
Forms	No	No
Multilingual	No	No
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 details

Nougat

Meta's model that converts academic PDFs to Markdown with LaTeX math.

Nougat details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body

{
  "model": "ibm/granite-docling",
  "fallbacks": ["meta/nougat"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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