Which is cheaper, LlamaParse or OCRmyPDF?

OCRmyPDF. LlamaParse is 5 credits / page and OCRmyPDF is 1 credit / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. LlamaParse is strongest at rag ingestion, and OCRmyPDF at searchable pdfs from scans. 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.

LlamaParse vs OCRmyPDF

OCRmyPDF is cheaper per page; OCRmyPDF is faster; only LlamaParse supports tables, math, bounding boxes.

Get API key All models

	LlamaParse`llamaindex/llamaparse`	OCRmyPDF`ocrmypdf/ocrmypdf`
Type	OCR API	Open source
Price	5 credits / page	1 credit / page
Per 1,000 pages	$5.00	$1.00
Typical speed	3.0 s / page	1.0 s / page
Best for	RAG ingestion	Searchable PDFs from scans
Inputs	PDF, images, DOCX	PDF, images
Languages	80+ languages	100+ languages (via Tesseract)
Max pages per request	1,000	1,000
Tables	✓ Yes	No
Handwriting	No	No
Math	✓ Yes	No
Bounding boxes	✓ Yes	No
Confidence	No	No
Forms	No	No
Multilingual	✓ Yes	✓ 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

LlamaParse

Document parser built for RAG pipelines, with several quality tiers.

LlamaParse details

OCRmyPDF

Command-line tool that adds a searchable text layer to scanned PDFs, using Tesseract.

OCRmyPDF details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body

{
  "model": "llamaindex/llamaparse",
  "fallbacks": ["ocrmypdf/ocrmypdf"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

Questions

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