Granite Docling vs Unstructured
Granite Docling is cheaper per page; Granite Docling is faster; only Granite Docling supports math; only Unstructured supports multilingual.
Granite Doclingibm/granite-docling | Unstructuredunstructured/unstructured | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | OCR API |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 20 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $20.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.5 s / page | 3.0 s / page |
| Best for | Small-model document conversion | Mixed file types into RAG |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images, DOCX |
| Languages | English, experimental CJK and Arabic | Multilingual |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 1,000 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | No | ✓ Yes |
| 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
Granite Docling
Compact IBM vision model that converts pages to DocTags for the Docling pipeline.
Granite Docling detailsUnstructured
Document ETL for RAG. Partitions many file types into typed elements; open-source library too.
Unstructured detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "ibm/granite-docling",
"fallbacks": ["unstructured/unstructured"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}