Which is cheaper, Claude or GOT-OCR 2.0?

GOT-OCR 2.0. Claude is 14 credits / page and GOT-OCR 2.0 is 1 credit / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. Claude is strongest at long dense documents, and GOT-OCR 2.0 at formatted text, formulas and charts. Run a few of your own files through both and compare the output.

Yes. Put one as model and the other in fallbacks. If the first fails, the second reads the page, and you pay only for the one that answered.

Claude vs GOT-OCR 2.0

GOT-OCR 2.0 is cheaper per page; GOT-OCR 2.0 is faster; only Claude supports handwriting, multilingual; only GOT-OCR 2.0 supports bounding boxes.

Get API key All models

	Claude`anthropic/claude`	GOT-OCR 2.0`stepfun/got-ocr-2`
Type	Vision model	Open source
Price	14 credits / page	1 credit / page
Per 1,000 pages	$14.00	$1.00
Typical speed	2.6 s / page	1.5 s / page
Best for	Long dense documents	Formatted text, formulas and charts
Inputs	PDF, images	images
Languages	50+ languages	Chinese, English
Max pages per request	100	100
Tables	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Handwriting	✓ Yes	No
Math	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Bounding boxes	No	✓ Yes
Confidence	No	No
Forms	No	No
Multilingual	✓ Yes	No
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

Claude

General vision model with careful reading of long, dense documents.

Claude 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": "anthropic/claude",
  "fallbacks": ["stepfun/got-ocr-2"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

Questions

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