Mistral OCR vs Donut
Donut is cheaper per page; Mistral OCR is faster; only Mistral OCR supports tables, math, bounding boxes, multilingual; only Donut supports forms.
Mistral OCRmistral/mistral-ocr | Donutnaver/donut | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | Open source |
| Price | 6 credits / page | 1 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $6.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 0.9 s / page | 1.0 s / page |
| Best for | High-volume PDF to Markdown | Receipt and form fields after fine-tuning |
| Inputs | PDF, images | images |
| Languages | 100+ languages | English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 100 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | No |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | ✓ Yes |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | No |
| On OCRRouter | Available | 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
Mistral OCR
Fast document OCR that returns clean Markdown with tables and embedded images.
Mistral OCR detailsDonut
OCR-free document understanding model. Fine-tuned for receipts, forms and document Q&A.
Donut detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "mistral/mistral-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["naver/donut"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}