Kraken vs Nanonets-OCR
Kraken is cheaper per page; Kraken is faster; only Kraken supports handwriting, bounding boxes; only Nanonets-OCR supports tables, math, forms.
Krakenkraken/kraken | Nanonets-OCRnanonets/nanonets-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.5 s / page | 1.8 s / page |
| Best for | Historical documents and manuscripts | Markdown with semantic tags |
| Inputs | images | PDF, images |
| Languages | Many scripts, incl. right-to-left | Multilingual |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 500 |
| Tables | No | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | No | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | ✓ Yes |
| 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OCR engine for historical documents and manuscripts, with trainable models for unusual scripts.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 detailsNanonets-OCR
Open image-to-Markdown model that tags tables, equations, signatures, watermarks and checkboxes.
Nanonets-OCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "kraken/kraken",
"fallbacks": ["nanonets/nanonets-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}