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Azure Document Intelligence vs MonkeyOCR

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

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Azure Document Intelligenceazure/document-intelligenceMonkeyOCRmonkeyocr/monkeyocr
TypeOCR APIOpen source
Price15 credits / page2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$15.00$2.00
Typical speed1.5 s / page1.5 s / page
Best forEnterprise forms and IDsChinese and English PDFs
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
Languages300+ languagesChinese, English
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

MonkeyOCR

Open-source document parser that splits work into structure, recognition and relation steps.

MonkeyOCR details

Use one, fall back to the other

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

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