Kraken vs Typhoon OCR
Kraken is cheaper per page; Kraken is faster; only Kraken supports handwriting, bounding boxes; only Typhoon OCR supports tables.
Krakenkraken/kraken | Typhoon OCRtyphoon/typhoon-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| Best for | Historical documents and manuscripts | Thai documents |
| Inputs | images | PDF, images |
| Languages | Many scripts, incl. right-to-left | Thai, English |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 500 |
| Tables | No | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | No | No |
| 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OCR engine for historical documents and manuscripts, with trainable models for unusual scripts.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 detailsTyphoon OCR
Open vision model tuned for Thai and English documents, with Markdown output.
Typhoon OCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "kraken/kraken",
"fallbacks": ["typhoon/typhoon-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}