LlamaParse vs Typhoon OCR
Typhoon OCR is cheaper per page; Typhoon OCR is faster; only LlamaParse supports math, bounding boxes.
LlamaParsellamaindex/llamaparse | Typhoon OCRtyphoon/typhoon-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | Open source |
| Price | 5 credits / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $5.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 3.0 s / page | 1.8 s / page |
| Best for | RAG ingestion | Thai documents |
| Inputs | PDF, images, DOCX | PDF, images |
| Languages | 80+ languages | Thai, English |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | 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
Typhoon 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": "llamaindex/llamaparse",
"fallbacks": ["typhoon/typhoon-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}