Mistral OCR vs Amazon Textract
Mistral OCR is faster; only Mistral OCR supports math, multilingual; only Amazon Textract supports forms, handwriting, confidence.
Mistral OCRmistral/mistral-ocr | Amazon Textractaws/textract | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | OCR API |
| Price | 6 credits / page | 6 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $6.00 | $6.00 |
| Typical speed | 0.9 s / page | 1.2 s / page |
| Best for | High-volume PDF to Markdown | Forms and key-value extraction |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 100+ languages | 6 languages |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 3,000 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | ✓ Yes |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | ✓ Yes |
| Forms | No | ✓ Yes |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | No |
| On OCRRouter | Available | Available |
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 detailsAmazon Textract
AWS OCR with form key-value pairs, tables and per-word confidence scores.
Amazon Textract detailsTry both on your own file
Run the file once with each model and compare the output.
Result
Your Markdown or JSON shows up here.
Use one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "mistral/mistral-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["aws/textract"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}