Surya vs Granite Docling
Granite Docling is cheaper per page; only Surya supports multilingual; only Granite Docling supports math.
Suryadatalab/surya | Granite Doclingibm/granite-docling | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | 2 credits / page | 1 credit / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $2.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.5 s / page | 1.5 s / page |
| Best for | Layout and line-level OCR | Small-model document conversion |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 90+ languages | English, experimental CJK and Arabic |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | No | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | No |
| 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
Surya
Open-source OCR toolkit with line detection, layout analysis, reading order and tables.
Surya detailsGranite Docling
Compact IBM vision model that converts pages to DocTags for the Docling pipeline.
Granite Docling detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "datalab/surya",
"fallbacks": ["ibm/granite-docling"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}