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Claude vs Nougat

Nougat is cheaper per page; Claude is faster; only Claude supports handwriting, multilingual.

Claudeanthropic/claudeNougatmeta/nougat
TypeVision modelOpen source
Price14 credits / page2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$14.00$2.00
Typical speed2.6 s / page3.0 s / page
Best forLong dense documentsarXiv-style papers
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
Languages50+ languagesMainly English
Max pages per request100200
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
Handwriting✓ YesNo
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Bounding boxesNoNo
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
Multilingual✓ YesNo
On OCRRouterAvailableComing 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

Nougat

Meta's model that converts academic PDFs to Markdown with LaTeX math.

Nougat details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "anthropic/claude",
  "fallbacks": ["meta/nougat"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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