Which is cheaper, Amazon Textract or Kraken?

Kraken. Amazon Textract is 6 credits / page and Kraken is 1 credit / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. Amazon Textract is strongest at forms and key-value extraction, and Kraken at historical documents and manuscripts. 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.

Amazon Textract vs Kraken

Kraken is cheaper per page; Amazon Textract is faster; only Amazon Textract supports tables, forms, confidence; only Kraken supports multilingual.

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	Amazon Textract`aws/textract`	Kraken`kraken/kraken`
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Best for	Forms and key-value extraction	Historical documents and manuscripts
Inputs	PDF, images	images
Languages	6 languages	Many scripts, incl. right-to-left
Max pages per request	3,000	500
Tables	✓ Yes	No
Handwriting	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Math	No	No
Bounding boxes	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Confidence	✓ Yes	No
Forms	✓ Yes	No
Multilingual	No	✓ 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

Amazon Textract

AWS OCR with form key-value pairs, tables and per-word confidence scores.

Amazon Textract details

Kraken

OCR engine for historical documents and manuscripts, with trainable models for unusual scripts.

Kraken details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body

{
  "model": "aws/textract",
  "fallbacks": ["kraken/kraken"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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