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SmolDocling vs GOT-OCR 2.0

SmolDocling is faster.

SmolDoclinghuggingface/smoldoclingGOT-OCR 2.0stepfun/got-ocr-2
TypeOpen sourceOpen source
Price1 credit / page1 credit / page
Per 1,000 pages$1.00$1.00
Typical speed1.0 s / page1.5 s / page
Best forVery cheap page conversionFormatted text, formulas and charts
InputsPDF, imagesimages
LanguagesMainly EnglishChinese, English
Max pages per request500100
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Bounding boxes✓ Yes✓ Yes
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
MultilingualNoNo
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Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.

What each one is

SmolDocling

Tiny 256M vision model from Hugging Face and IBM that outputs DocTags. Predecessor of Granite Docling.

SmolDocling details

GOT-OCR 2.0

Unified OCR model that reads plain text, tables, formulas, sheet music and charts.

GOT-OCR 2.0 details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "huggingface/smoldocling",
  "fallbacks": ["stepfun/got-ocr-2"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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