Unlimited OCR vs Granite Docling
Granite Docling is cheaper per page; Unlimited OCR is faster; only Unlimited OCR supports multilingual.
Unlimited OCRbaidu/unlimited-ocr | 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 | 1.2 s / page | 1.5 s / page |
| Best for | Books and very long documents | Small-model document conversion |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 30+ languages | English, experimental CJK and Arabic |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | ✓ 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
Unlimited OCR
Open-source model from Baidu that reads hundreds of pages in one pass with flat memory use.
Unlimited OCR 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": "baidu/unlimited-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["ibm/granite-docling"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}