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DeepSeek-OCR vs Surya

DeepSeek-OCR is cheaper per page; DeepSeek-OCR is faster; only DeepSeek-OCR supports math.

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DeepSeek-OCRdeepseek/deepseek-ocrSuryadatalab/surya
TypeOpen sourceOpen source
Price1 credit / page2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$1.00$2.00
Typical speed1.1 s / page1.5 s / page
Best forCheap bulk conversionLayout and line-level OCR
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
Languages100+ languages90+ languages
Max pages per request200500
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ YesNo
Bounding boxes✓ Yes✓ Yes
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
Multilingual✓ Yes✓ Yes
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

DeepSeek-OCR

Open-source vision model that compresses pages into few tokens.

DeepSeek-OCR details

Surya

Open-source OCR toolkit with line detection, layout analysis, reading order and tables.

Surya details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "deepseek/deepseek-ocr",
  "fallbacks": ["datalab/surya"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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