Claude vs Jina OCR
Jina OCR is cheaper per page; Jina OCR is faster; only Claude supports handwriting.
Claudeanthropic/claude | Jina OCRjina/jina-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Vision model | Open source |
| Price | 14 credits / page | 1 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $14.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 2.6 s / page | 1.5 s / page |
| Best for | Long dense documents | Clean Markdown at low cost |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 50+ languages | About 100 languages |
| Max pages per request | 100 | 200 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | No | No |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| On OCRRouter | Available | Available |
Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.
What each one is
Jina OCR
Compact page-to-Markdown model from Jina AI, built on the DeepSeek-OCR encoder.
Jina OCR detailsTry both on your own file
Run the file once with each model and compare the output.
Result
Your Markdown or JSON shows up here.
Use one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "anthropic/claude",
"fallbacks": ["jina/jina-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}