Which is cheaper, Mistral OCR or OCRmyPDF?

OCRmyPDF. Mistral OCR is 6 credits / page and OCRmyPDF is 1 credits / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. Mistral OCR is strongest at high-volume pdf to markdown, and OCRmyPDF at searchable pdfs from scans. 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 OCRmyPDF

OCRmyPDF is cheaper per page; Mistral OCR is faster; only Mistral OCR supports tables, math, bounding boxes.

Get API key All models

	Mistral OCR`mistral/mistral-ocr`	OCRmyPDF`ocrmypdf/ocrmypdf`
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	Searchable PDFs from scans
Inputs	PDF, images	PDF, images
Languages	100+ languages	100+ languages (via Tesseract)
Max pages per request	1,000	1,000
Tables	✓ Yes	No
Handwriting	No	No
Math	✓ Yes	No
Bounding boxes	✓ Yes	No
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

OCRmyPDF

Command-line tool that adds a searchable text layer to scanned PDFs, using Tesseract.

OCRmyPDF details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body

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

Questions

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