Which is cheaper, Mistral OCR or Kraken?

Kraken. Mistral OCR is 6 credits / page and Kraken is 1 credit / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. Mistral OCR is strongest at high-volume pdf to markdown, and Kraken at historical documents and manuscripts. Run a few of your own files through both and compare the output.

Yes. Put one as model and the other in fallbacks. If the first fails, the second reads the page, and you pay only for the one that answered.

Mistral OCR vs Kraken

Kraken is cheaper per page; Mistral OCR is faster; only Mistral OCR supports tables, math; only Kraken supports handwriting.

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	Mistral OCR`mistral/mistral-ocr`	Kraken`kraken/kraken`
Type	OCR API	Open source
Price	6 credits / page	1 credit / page
Per 1,000 pages	$6.00	$1.00
Typical speed	0.9 s / page	1.5 s / page
Best for	High-volume PDF to Markdown	Historical documents and manuscripts
Inputs	PDF, images	images
Languages	100+ languages	Many scripts, incl. right-to-left
Max pages per request	1,000	500
Tables	✓ Yes	No
Handwriting	No	✓ Yes
Math	✓ Yes	No
Bounding boxes	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Confidence	No	No
Forms	No	No
Multilingual	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
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 details

Kraken

OCR engine for historical documents and manuscripts, with trainable models for unusual scripts.

Kraken details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body

{
  "model": "mistral/mistral-ocr",
  "fallbacks": ["kraken/kraken"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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