Hunyuan OCR vs SmolDocling
SmolDocling is cheaper per page; SmolDocling is faster; only Hunyuan OCR supports multilingual.
Hunyuan OCRtencent/hunyuan-ocr | SmolDoclinghuggingface/smoldocling | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | 2 credits / page | 1 credit / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $2.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.5 s / page | 1.0 s / page |
| Best for | Chinese documents and photos | Very cheap page conversion |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 100+ languages | Mainly English |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | No |
| 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
Hunyuan OCR
Small end-to-end OCR model from Tencent covering parsing, extraction and photo translation.
Hunyuan OCR detailsSmolDocling
Tiny 256M vision model from Hugging Face and IBM that outputs DocTags. Predecessor of Granite Docling.
SmolDocling detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "tencent/hunyuan-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["huggingface/smoldocling"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}