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GLM-OCR vs Nougat

GLM-OCR is faster; only GLM-OCR supports bounding boxes, confidence, multilingual.

GLM-OCRzai/glm-ocrNougatmeta/nougat
TypeOpen sourceOpen source
Price2 credits / page2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$2.00$2.00
Typical speed1.3 s / page3.0 s / page
Best forLow-cost general documentsarXiv-style papers
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
Languages100+ languagesMainly English
Max pages per request500200
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Bounding boxes✓ YesNo
Confidence✓ YesNo
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

GLM-OCR

Small open-source OCR model from Z.ai with layout regions. MIT licensed.

GLM-OCR 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": "zai/glm-ocr",
  "fallbacks": ["meta/nougat"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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