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Nougat vs Chunkr

Nougat is cheaper per page; only Chunkr supports bounding boxes, multilingual.

Nougatmeta/nougatChunkrchunkr/chunkr
TypeOpen sourceOCR API
Price2 credits / page14 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$2.00$14.00
Typical speed3.0 s / page3.0 s / page
Best forarXiv-style papersLayout-aware chunks for RAG
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images, DOCX
LanguagesMainly EnglishMultilingual
Max pages per request2001,000
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Bounding boxesNo✓ Yes
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
MultilingualNo✓ Yes
On OCRRouterComing soonComing soon

Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.

What each one is

Nougat

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

Nougat details

Chunkr

Document parsing API that segments and chunks pages for RAG. Self-hostable version available.

Chunkr details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "meta/nougat",
  "fallbacks": ["chunkr/chunkr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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