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Hunyuan OCR vs Qwen-VL

Hunyuan OCR is faster; only Qwen-VL supports handwriting.

Hunyuan OCRtencent/hunyuan-ocrQwen-VLqwen/qwen-vl
TypeOpen sourceOpen source
Price2 credits / page2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$2.00$2.00
Typical speed1.5 s / page2.0 s / page
Best forChinese documents and photosFlexible extraction with prompts
InputsPDF, imagesPDF, images
Languages100+ languages30+ languages
Max pages per request500200
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNo✓ Yes
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Bounding boxes✓ Yes✓ Yes
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
Multilingual✓ Yes✓ Yes
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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

Hunyuan OCR

Small end-to-end OCR model from Tencent covering parsing, extraction and photo translation.

Hunyuan OCR details

Qwen-VL

Alibaba's open-weight vision language models (Qwen2.5-VL, Qwen3-VL). Strong general OCR and grounding.

Qwen-VL details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "tencent/hunyuan-ocr",
  "fallbacks": ["qwen/qwen-vl"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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