Granite Docling vs Typhoon OCR
Granite Docling is cheaper per page; Granite Docling is faster; only Granite Docling supports math, bounding boxes; only Typhoon OCR supports multilingual.
Granite Doclingibm/granite-docling | Typhoon OCRtyphoon/typhoon-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1.8 s / page |
| Best for | Small-model document conversion | Thai documents |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | English, experimental CJK and Arabic | Thai, English |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| 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 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": "ibm/granite-docling",
"fallbacks": ["typhoon/typhoon-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}