Which is cheaper, Typhoon OCR or Adobe Acrobat OCR?

Typhoon OCR. Typhoon OCR is 2 credits / page and Adobe Acrobat OCR is 14 credits / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. Typhoon OCR is strongest at thai documents, and Adobe Acrobat OCR at searchable pdfs in acrobat. 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.

Typhoon OCR vs Adobe Acrobat OCR

Typhoon OCR is cheaper per page; Typhoon OCR is faster; only Typhoon OCR supports tables.

Get API key All models

	Typhoon OCR`typhoon/typhoon-ocr`	Adobe Acrobat OCR`adobe/acrobat-ocr`
Type	Open source	OCR API
Price	2 credits / page	14 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages	$2.00	$14.00
Typical speed	1.8 s / page	2.0 s / page
Best for	Thai documents	Searchable PDFs in Acrobat
Inputs	PDF, images	PDF, images
Languages	Thai, English	Major European and Asian languages
Max pages per request	500	1,000
Tables	✓ Yes	No
Handwriting	No	No
Math	No	No
Bounding boxes	No	No
Confidence	No	No
Forms	No	No
Multilingual	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
On OCRRouter	Coming soon	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

Typhoon OCR

Open vision model tuned for Thai and English documents, with Markdown output.

Typhoon OCR details

Adobe Acrobat OCR

OCR built into Acrobat desktop. Adobe PDF Services API also offers OCR. Price is an estimate.

Adobe Acrobat OCR details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body

{
  "model": "typhoon/typhoon-ocr",
  "fallbacks": ["adobe/acrobat-ocr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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