Which is cheaper, MinerU or Nougat?

They cost the same here: 2 credits / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. MinerU is strongest at academic pdfs, and Nougat at arxiv-style papers. Run a few of your own files through both and compare the output.

Yes. Put one as model and the other in fallbacks. If the first fails, the second reads the page, and you pay only for the one that answered.

MinerU vs Nougat

MinerU is faster; only MinerU supports bounding boxes, multilingual.

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	MinerU`opendatalab/mineru`	Nougat`meta/nougat`
Type	Open source	Open source
Price	2 credits / page	2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages	$2.00	$2.00
Typical speed	2.0 s / page	3.0 s / page
Best for	Academic PDFs	arXiv-style papers
Inputs	PDF, images	PDF, images
Languages	80+ languages	Mainly English
Max pages per request	500	200
Tables	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Handwriting	No	No
Math	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Bounding boxes	✓ Yes	No
Confidence	No	No
Forms	No	No
Multilingual	✓ Yes	No
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

MinerU

Open-source PDF to Markdown pipeline popular for academic and Chinese documents.

MinerU details

Nougat

Meta's model that converts academic PDFs to Markdown with LaTeX math.

Nougat details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body

{
  "model": "opendatalab/mineru",
  "fallbacks": ["meta/nougat"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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