Qianfan OCR vs Granite Docling
Granite Docling is faster; only Qianfan OCR supports handwriting, multilingual; only Granite Docling supports bounding boxes.
Qianfan OCRbaidu/qianfan-ocr | Granite Doclingibm/granite-docling | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | Open source |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 1 credit / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 2.0 s / page | 1.5 s / page |
| Best for | Chinese documents | Small-model document conversion |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | Chinese, English and more | English, experimental CJK and Arabic |
| Max pages per request | 200 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | No | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | No |
| 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
Qianfan OCR
Baidu's OCR-tuned vision model. Strong on Chinese documents and tables.
Qianfan OCR detailsGranite Docling
Compact IBM vision model that converts pages to DocTags for the Docling pipeline.
Granite Docling detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "baidu/qianfan-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["ibm/granite-docling"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}