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Docling vs Chunkr

Docling is cheaper per page; Docling is faster; only Chunkr supports multilingual.

Doclingibm/doclingChunkrchunkr/chunkr
TypeOpen sourceOCR API
Price2 credits / page14 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$2.00$14.00
Typical speed2.2 s / page3.0 s / page
Best forStructured export for RAGLayout-aware chunks for RAG
InputsPDF, images, DOCXPDF, images, DOCX
LanguagesLatin scripts, CJKMultilingual
Max pages per request5001,000
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Bounding boxes✓ Yes✓ Yes
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
MultilingualNo✓ Yes
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Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.

What each one is

Docling

IBM's open-source document converter with a structured document model.

Docling details

Chunkr

Document parsing API that segments and chunks pages for RAG. Self-hostable version available.

Chunkr details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "ibm/docling",
  "fallbacks": ["chunkr/chunkr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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