Mistral OCR vs Google Cloud Vision OCR
Google Cloud Vision OCR is cheaper per page; Mistral OCR is faster; only Mistral OCR supports tables, math; only Google Cloud Vision OCR supports handwriting, confidence.
Mistral OCRmistral/mistral-ocr | Google Cloud Vision OCRgoogle/cloud-vision | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | OCR API |
| Price | 6 credits / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $6.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 0.9 s / page | 1.0 s / page |
| Best for | High-volume PDF to Markdown | Photos and simple scans |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 100+ languages | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 2,000 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | No |
| Handwriting | No | ✓ Yes |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | ✓ Yes |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| On OCRRouter | Available | 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
Mistral OCR
Fast document OCR that returns clean Markdown with tables and embedded images.
Mistral OCR 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": "mistral/mistral-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["google/cloud-vision"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}Questions
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