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Claude vs OCR.space

OCR.space is cheaper per page; OCR.space is faster; only Claude supports handwriting, math; only OCR.space supports bounding boxes.

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Claudeanthropic/claudeOCR.spaceocrspace/ocr-space
TypeVision modelOCR API
Price14 credits / page1 credit / page
Per 1,000 pages$14.00$1.00
Typical speed2.6 s / page1.5 s / page
Best forLong dense documentsCheap simple OCR
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
Languages50+ languages20+ languages
Max pages per request100100
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
Handwriting✓ YesNo
Math✓ YesNo
Bounding boxesNo✓ Yes
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
Multilingual✓ Yes✓ Yes
On OCRRouterAvailableComing soon

Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.

What each one is

Claude

General vision model with careful reading of long, dense documents.

Claude details

OCR.space

Low-cost OCR API with a large free tier. Returns text, word boxes and searchable PDFs.

OCR.space details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "anthropic/claude",
  "fallbacks": ["ocrspace/ocr-space"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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