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Granite Docling vs MonkeyOCR

Granite Docling is cheaper per page.

Granite Doclingibm/granite-doclingMonkeyOCRmonkeyocr/monkeyocr
TypeOpen sourceOpen source
Price1 credits / page2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$1.00$2.00
Typical speed1.5 s / page1.5 s / page
Best forSmall-model document conversionChinese and English PDFs
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
LanguagesEnglish, experimental CJK and ArabicChinese, English
Max pages per request500500
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Bounding boxes✓ Yes✓ Yes
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
MultilingualNoNo
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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

Granite Docling

Compact IBM vision model that converts pages to DocTags for the Docling pipeline.

Granite Docling details

MonkeyOCR

Open-source document parser that splits work into structure, recognition and relation steps.

MonkeyOCR details

Use one, fall back to the other

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

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