Claude vs dots.ocr
Dots.ocr is cheaper per page; dots.ocr is faster; only Claude supports handwriting; only dots.ocr supports bounding boxes.
Claudeanthropic/claude | dots.ocrrednote/dots-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Vision model | Open source |
| Price | 14 credits / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $14.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 2.6 s / page | 1.5 s / page |
| Best for | Long dense documents | Multilingual document parsing |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 50+ languages | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 100 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | No | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | ✓ 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
dots.ocr
Single vision model from rednote that does layout detection and content recognition together.
dots.ocr detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "anthropic/claude",
"fallbacks": ["rednote/dots-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}