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LlamaParse vs Nougat

Nougat is cheaper per page; only LlamaParse supports bounding boxes, multilingual.

LlamaParsellamaindex/llamaparseNougatmeta/nougat
TypeOCR APIOpen source
Price5 credits / page2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$5.00$2.00
Typical speed3.0 s / page3.0 s / page
Best forRAG ingestionarXiv-style papers
InputsPDF, images, DOCXPDF, images
Languages80+ languagesMainly English
Max pages per request1,000200
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Bounding boxes✓ YesNo
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
Multilingual✓ YesNo
On OCRRouterComing soonComing soon

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

What each one is

LlamaParse

Document parser built for RAG pipelines, with several quality tiers.

LlamaParse 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": "llamaindex/llamaparse",
  "fallbacks": ["meta/nougat"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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