Google Document AI vs Jina OCR
Jina OCR is cheaper per page; Google Document AI is faster; only Google Document AI supports forms, handwriting, bounding boxes, confidence; only Jina OCR supports math.
Google Document AIgoogle/document-ai | Jina OCRjina/jina-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | Open source |
| Price | 3 credits / page | 1 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $3.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.4 s / page | 1.5 s / page |
| Best for | Multilingual scans | Clean Markdown at low cost |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 200+ languages | About 100 languages |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 200 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | No | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | No |
| Forms | ✓ Yes | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| On OCRRouter | Available | Available |
Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.
What each one is
Google Document AI
Google Cloud OCR with layout parsing and specialised processors.
Google Document AI detailsJina OCR
Compact page-to-Markdown model from Jina AI, built on the DeepSeek-OCR encoder.
Jina OCR detailsTry both on your own file
Run the file once with each model and compare the output.
Result
Your Markdown or JSON shows up here.
Use one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "google/document-ai",
"fallbacks": ["jina/jina-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}