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Hunyuan OCR vs OCR.space

OCR.space is cheaper per page; only Hunyuan OCR supports math.

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Hunyuan OCRtencent/hunyuan-ocrOCR.spaceocrspace/ocr-space
TypeOpen sourceOCR API
Price2 credits / page1 credit / page
Per 1,000 pages$2.00$1.00
Typical speed1.5 s / page1.5 s / page
Best forChinese documents and photosCheap simple OCR
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
Languages100+ languages20+ languages
Max pages per request500100
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ YesNo
Bounding boxes✓ Yes✓ Yes
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
Multilingual✓ Yes✓ Yes
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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

Hunyuan OCR

Small end-to-end OCR model from Tencent covering parsing, extraction and photo translation.

Hunyuan OCR details

OCR.space

Low-cost OCR API with a large free tier. Returns text, word boxes and searchable PDFs.

OCR.space details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "tencent/hunyuan-ocr",
  "fallbacks": ["ocrspace/ocr-space"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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