LlamaParse vs olmOCR
OlmOCR is cheaper per page; olmOCR is faster; only LlamaParse supports bounding boxes, multilingual; only olmOCR supports handwriting.
LlamaParsellamaindex/llamaparse | olmOCRallenai/olmocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | Open source |
| Price | 5 credits / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $5.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 3.0 s / page | 1.5 s / page |
| Best for | RAG ingestion | Bulk PDF to text for datasets |
| Inputs | PDF, images, DOCX | PDF, images |
| Languages | 80+ languages | Mainly English |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | ✓ Yes |
| Math | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | 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
olmOCR
Open-source vision model from Ai2 that turns PDFs into clean, reading-order text.
olmOCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "llamaindex/llamaparse",
"fallbacks": ["allenai/olmocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}