Donut vs Google Cloud Vision OCR
Donut is cheaper per page; only Donut supports forms; only Google Cloud Vision OCR supports handwriting, bounding boxes, confidence, multilingual.
Donutnaver/donut | Google Cloud Vision OCRgoogle/cloud-vision | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | OCR API |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.0 s / page | 1.0 s / page |
| Best for | Receipt and form fields after fine-tuning | Photos and simple scans |
| Inputs | images | PDF, images |
| Languages | English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 100 | 2,000 |
| Tables | No | No |
| Handwriting | No | ✓ Yes |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | No | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | ✓ Yes |
| Forms | ✓ Yes | 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
Donut
OCR-free document understanding model. Fine-tuned for receipts, forms and document Q&A.
Donut detailsGoogle Cloud Vision OCR
Google Cloud's image OCR with text and document text detection, word boxes and confidence.
Google Cloud Vision OCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "naver/donut",
"fallbacks": ["google/cloud-vision"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}