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Jina OCR vs Nougat

Jina OCR is cheaper per page; Jina OCR is faster; only Jina OCR supports multilingual.

Jina OCRjina/jina-ocrNougatmeta/nougat
TypeOpen sourceOpen source
Price1 credit / page2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$1.00$2.00
Typical speed1.5 s / page3.0 s / page
Best forClean Markdown at low costarXiv-style papers
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
LanguagesAbout 100 languagesMainly English
Max pages per request200200
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Bounding boxesNoNo
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
Multilingual✓ YesNo
On OCRRouterAvailableComing soon

Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.

What each one is

Jina OCR

Compact page-to-Markdown model from Jina AI, built on the DeepSeek-OCR encoder.

Jina OCR 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": "jina/jina-ocr",
  "fallbacks": ["meta/nougat"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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