Docling vs RapidOCR
RapidOCR is cheaper per page; RapidOCR is faster; only Docling supports tables, math; only RapidOCR supports confidence, multilingual.
Doclingibm/docling | RapidOCRrapidai/rapidocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | 2 credits / page | 1 credit / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $2.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 2.2 s / page | 0.6 s / page |
| Best for | Structured export for RAG | Lightweight OCR on CPU or edge |
| Inputs | PDF, images, DOCX | images |
| Languages | Latin scripts, CJK | Chinese, English and more |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 100 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | No |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | ✓ Yes |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | No | ✓ Yes |
| On OCRRouter | Coming soon | 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
RapidOCR
PaddleOCR models packaged for ONNX Runtime and other engines. Easy to deploy without Paddle.
RapidOCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "ibm/docling",
"fallbacks": ["rapidai/rapidocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}