dots.ocr vs Nougat
Dots.ocr is faster; only dots.ocr supports bounding boxes, multilingual.
dots.ocrrednote/dots-ocr | Nougatmeta/nougat | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | 2 credits / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $2.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.5 s / page | 3.0 s / page |
| Best for | Multilingual document parsing | arXiv-style papers |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 100+ languages | Mainly English |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 200 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | 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
dots.ocr
Single vision model from rednote that does layout detection and content recognition together.
dots.ocr detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "rednote/dots-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["meta/nougat"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}