RapidOCR vs Typhoon OCR
RapidOCR is cheaper per page; RapidOCR is faster; only RapidOCR supports bounding boxes, confidence; only Typhoon OCR supports tables.
RapidOCRrapidai/rapidocr | Typhoon OCRtyphoon/typhoon-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 0.6 s / page | 1.8 s / page |
| Best for | Lightweight OCR on CPU or edge | Thai documents |
| Inputs | images | PDF, images |
| Languages | Chinese, English and more | Thai, English |
| Max pages per request | 100 | 500 |
| Tables | No | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| On OCRRouter | Coming soon | 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
RapidOCR
PaddleOCR models packaged for ONNX Runtime and other engines. Easy to deploy without Paddle.
RapidOCR detailsTyphoon OCR
Open vision model tuned for Thai and English documents, with Markdown output.
Typhoon OCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "rapidai/rapidocr",
"fallbacks": ["typhoon/typhoon-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}