Amazon Textract vs Granite Docling
Granite Docling is cheaper per page; Amazon Textract is faster; only Amazon Textract supports forms, handwriting, confidence; only Granite Docling supports math.
Amazon Textractaws/textract | Granite Doclingibm/granite-docling | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | Open source |
| Price | 6 credits / page | 1 credit / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $6.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.2 s / page | 1.5 s / page |
| Best for | Forms and key-value extraction | Small-model document conversion |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 6 languages | English, experimental CJK and Arabic |
| Max pages per request | 3,000 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | No | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | No |
| Forms | ✓ Yes | No |
| Multilingual | No | 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
Amazon Textract
AWS OCR with form key-value pairs, tables and per-word confidence scores.
Amazon Textract 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": "aws/textract",
"fallbacks": ["ibm/granite-docling"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}