Which is cheaper, dots.ocr or GOT-OCR 2.0?

GOT-OCR 2.0. dots.ocr is 2 credits / page and GOT-OCR 2.0 is 1 credit / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. dots.ocr is strongest at multilingual document parsing, and GOT-OCR 2.0 at formatted text, formulas and charts. Run a few of your own files through both and compare the output.

Yes. Put one as model and the other in fallbacks. If the first fails, the second reads the page, and you pay only for the one that answered.

dots.ocr vs GOT-OCR 2.0

GOT-OCR 2.0 is cheaper per page; only dots.ocr supports multilingual.

Get API key All models

	dots.ocr`rednote/dots-ocr`	GOT-OCR 2.0`stepfun/got-ocr-2`
Type	Open source	Open source
Price	2 credits / page	1 credit / page
Per 1,000 pages	$2.00	$1.00
Typical speed	1.5 s / page	1.5 s / page
Best for	Multilingual document parsing	Formatted text, formulas and charts
Inputs	PDF, images	images
Languages	100+ languages	Chinese, English
Max pages per request	500	100
Tables	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Handwriting	No	No
Math	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Bounding boxes	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Confidence	No	No
Forms	No	No
Multilingual	✓ Yes	No
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

dots.ocr

Single vision model from rednote that does layout detection and content recognition together.

dots.ocr details

GOT-OCR 2.0

Unified OCR model that reads plain text, tables, formulas, sheet music and charts.

GOT-OCR 2.0 details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body

{
  "model": "rednote/dots-ocr",
  "fallbacks": ["stepfun/got-ocr-2"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

Questions

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