Claude alternatives
Models that cover what Claude does, closest first. All of them take the same request, so trying one is a one-word change.
General vision model with strong handwriting and layout understanding at a low price.
General vision model. Good at messy scans and following extraction instructions.
Baidu's OCR-tuned vision model. Strong on Chinese documents and tables.
Datalab's OCR model that keeps layout and handles forms, tables and handwriting.
Alibaba's open-weight vision language models (Qwen2.5-VL, Qwen3-VL). Strong general OCR and grounding.
Fast document OCR that returns clean Markdown with tables and embedded images.
Dashed tags are things Claude does not support. Model IDs: google/gemini-flash, openai/gpt, baidu/qianfan-ocr, datalab/chandra, qwen/qwen-vl, mistral/mistral-ocr.