Kraken vs Google Cloud Vision OCR
Kraken is cheaper per page; Google Cloud Vision OCR is faster; only Google Cloud Vision OCR supports confidence.
Krakenkraken/kraken | 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| Best for | Historical documents and manuscripts | Photos and simple scans |
| Inputs | images | PDF, images |
| Languages | Many scripts, incl. right-to-left | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 2,000 |
| Tables | No | No |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | ✓ Yes |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | ✓ 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
Kraken
OCR engine for historical documents and manuscripts, with trainable models for unusual scripts.
Kraken 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": "kraken/kraken",
"fallbacks": ["google/cloud-vision"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}