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Claude vs Qianfan OCR

Qianfan OCR is cheaper per page; Qianfan OCR is faster.

Claudeanthropic/claudeQianfan OCRbaidu/qianfan-ocr
TypeVision modelOCR API
Price14 credits / page1 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$14.00$1.00
Typical speed2.6 s / page2.0 s / page
Best forLong dense documentsChinese documents
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
Languages50+ languagesChinese, English and more
Max pages per request100200
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
Handwriting✓ Yes✓ Yes
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Bounding boxesNoNo
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
Multilingual✓ Yes✓ Yes
On OCRRouterAvailableAvailable

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

Qianfan OCR

Baidu's OCR-tuned vision model. Strong on Chinese documents and tables.

Qianfan OCR details

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Use one, fall back to the other

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

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