Docling vs Unstructured
Docling is cheaper per page; Docling is faster; only Docling supports math; only Unstructured supports multilingual.
Doclingibm/docling | Unstructuredunstructured/unstructured | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | OCR API |
| Price | 2 credits / page | 20 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $2.00 | $20.00 |
| Typical speed | 2.2 s / page | 3.0 s / page |
| Best for | Structured export for RAG | Mixed file types into RAG |
| Inputs | PDF, images, DOCX | PDF, images, DOCX |
| Languages | Latin scripts, CJK | Multilingual |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 1,000 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | No |
| 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
Unstructured
Document ETL for RAG. Partitions many file types into typed elements; open-source library too.
Unstructured detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "ibm/docling",
"fallbacks": ["unstructured/unstructured"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}