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DeepSeek-OCR vs GOT-OCR 2.0

DeepSeek-OCR is faster; only DeepSeek-OCR supports multilingual.

DeepSeek-OCRdeepseek/deepseek-ocrGOT-OCR 2.0stepfun/got-ocr-2
TypeOpen sourceOpen source
Price1 credit / page1 credit / page
Per 1,000 pages$1.00$1.00
Typical speed1.1 s / page1.5 s / page
Best forCheap bulk conversionFormatted text, formulas and charts
InputsPDF, imagesimages
Languages100+ languagesChinese, English
Max pages per request200100
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Bounding boxes✓ Yes✓ Yes
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
Multilingual✓ YesNo
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

DeepSeek-OCR

Open-source vision model that compresses pages into few tokens.

DeepSeek-OCR details

GOT-OCR 2.0

Unified OCR model that reads plain text, tables, formulas, sheet music and charts.

GOT-OCR 2.0 details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "deepseek/deepseek-ocr",
  "fallbacks": ["stepfun/got-ocr-2"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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