Qianfan OCR vs Unstructured
Qianfan OCR is cheaper per page; Qianfan OCR is faster; only Qianfan OCR supports math, handwriting; only Unstructured supports bounding boxes.
Qianfan OCRbaidu/qianfan-ocr | Unstructuredunstructured/unstructured | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | OCR API |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 20 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $20.00 |
| Typical speed | 2.0 s / page | 3.0 s / page |
| Best for | Chinese documents | Mixed file types into RAG |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images, DOCX |
| Languages | Chinese, English and more | Multilingual |
| Max pages per request | 200 | 1,000 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | No | ✓ 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
Qianfan OCR
Baidu's OCR-tuned vision model. Strong on Chinese documents and tables.
Qianfan OCR detailsUnstructured
Document ETL for RAG. Partitions many file types into typed elements; open-source library too.
Unstructured detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "baidu/qianfan-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["unstructured/unstructured"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}