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GPT vs Nougat

Nougat is cheaper per page; GPT is faster; only GPT supports handwriting, multilingual.

GPTopenai/gptNougatmeta/nougat
TypeVision modelOpen source
Price11 credits / page2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$11.00$2.00
Typical speed2.4 s / page3.0 s / page
Best forMessy scans, custom instructionsarXiv-style papers
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
Languages50+ languagesMainly English
Max pages per request100200
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
Handwriting✓ YesNo
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Bounding boxesNoNo
ConfidenceNoNo
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

GPT

General vision model. Good at messy scans and following extraction instructions.

GPT 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": "openai/gpt",
  "fallbacks": ["meta/nougat"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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