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Azure Document Intelligence vs Granite Docling

Granite Docling is cheaper per page; only Azure Document Intelligence supports forms, handwriting, confidence, multilingual; only Granite Docling supports math.

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Azure Document Intelligenceazure/document-intelligenceGranite Doclingibm/granite-docling
TypeOCR APIOpen source
Price15 credits / page1 credit / page
Per 1,000 pages$15.00$1.00
Typical speed1.5 s / page1.5 s / page
Best forEnterprise forms and IDsSmall-model document conversion
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
Languages300+ languagesEnglish, experimental CJK and Arabic
Max pages per request2,000500
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
Handwriting✓ YesNo
MathNo✓ Yes
Bounding boxes✓ Yes✓ Yes
Confidence✓ YesNo
Forms✓ YesNo
Multilingual✓ YesNo
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Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.

What each one is

Azure Document Intelligence

Azure layout model with tables, selection marks and prebuilt invoice and ID readers.

Azure Document Intelligence details

Granite Docling

Compact IBM vision model that converts pages to DocTags for the Docling pipeline.

Granite Docling details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "azure/document-intelligence",
  "fallbacks": ["ibm/granite-docling"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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