docTR vs Granite Docling
DocTR is faster; only docTR supports confidence; only Granite Docling supports tables, math.
docTRmindee/doctr | Granite Doclingibm/granite-docling | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 1 credit / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 0.9 s / page | 1.5 s / page |
| Best for | Word-level OCR with positions | Small-model document conversion |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | Mainly Latin scripts | English, experimental CJK and Arabic |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 500 |
| Tables | No | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | No | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | No | 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
docTR
Open-source OCR library from Mindee with separate text detection and recognition models.
docTR 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": "mindee/doctr",
"fallbacks": ["ibm/granite-docling"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}