Jina OCR vs Google Cloud Vision OCR
Jina OCR is cheaper per page; Google Cloud Vision OCR is faster; only Jina OCR supports tables, math; only Google Cloud Vision OCR supports handwriting, bounding boxes, confidence.
Jina OCRjina/jina-ocr | Google Cloud Vision OCRgoogle/cloud-vision | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | OCR API |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.5 s / page | 1.0 s / page |
| Best for | Clean Markdown at low cost | Photos and simple scans |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | About 100 languages | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 200 | 2,000 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | No |
| Handwriting | No | ✓ Yes |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | No | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | ✓ Yes |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| On OCRRouter | Available | 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
Jina OCR
Compact page-to-Markdown model from Jina AI, built on the DeepSeek-OCR encoder.
Jina OCR detailsGoogle Cloud Vision OCR
Google Cloud's image OCR with text and document text detection, word boxes and confidence.
Google Cloud Vision OCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "jina/jina-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["google/cloud-vision"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}