dots.ocr vs Granite Docling
Granite Docling is cheaper per page; only dots.ocr supports multilingual.
dots.ocrrednote/dots-ocr | Granite Doclingibm/granite-docling | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Small-model document conversion |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 100+ languages | English, experimental CJK and Arabic |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 500 |
| 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 detailsGranite Docling
Compact IBM vision model that converts pages to DocTags for the Docling pipeline.
Granite Docling detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "rednote/dots-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["ibm/granite-docling"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}