Mistral OCR vs TrOCR
TrOCR is cheaper per page; Mistral OCR is faster; only Mistral OCR supports tables, math, bounding boxes, multilingual; only TrOCR supports handwriting.
Mistral OCRmistral/mistral-ocr | TrOCRmicrosoft/trocr | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1.2 s / page |
| Best for | High-volume PDF to Markdown | Handwritten text lines |
| Inputs | PDF, images | images |
| Languages | 100+ languages | English |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 100 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | No |
| Handwriting | No | ✓ Yes |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| 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 detailsTrOCR
Transformer text recognition model. Reads single text lines, including handwriting.
TrOCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "mistral/mistral-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["microsoft/trocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}