Which is cheaper, DeepSeek-OCR or TrOCR?

They cost the same here: 1 credit / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. DeepSeek-OCR is strongest at cheap bulk conversion, and TrOCR at handwritten text lines. Run a few of your own files through both and compare the output.

Yes. Put one as model and the other in fallbacks. If the first fails, the second reads the page, and you pay only for the one that answered.

DeepSeek-OCR vs TrOCR

DeepSeek-OCR is faster; only DeepSeek-OCR supports tables, math, bounding boxes, multilingual; only TrOCR supports handwriting.

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	DeepSeek-OCR`deepseek/deepseek-ocr`	TrOCR`microsoft/trocr`
Type	Open source	Open source
Price	1 credit / page	1 credit / page
Per 1,000 pages	$1.00	$1.00
Typical speed	1.1 s / page	1.2 s / page
Best for	Cheap bulk conversion	Handwritten text lines
Inputs	PDF, images	images
Languages	100+ languages	English
Max pages per request	200	100
Tables	✓ Yes	No
Handwriting	No	✓ Yes
Math	✓ Yes	No
Bounding boxes	✓ Yes	No
Confidence	No	No
Forms	No	No
Multilingual	✓ Yes	No
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

DeepSeek-OCR

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

DeepSeek-OCR details

TrOCR

Transformer text recognition model. Reads single text lines, including handwriting.

TrOCR details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body

{
  "model": "deepseek/deepseek-ocr",
  "fallbacks": ["microsoft/trocr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

Questions

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