Marker vs Google Cloud Vision OCR
Google Cloud Vision OCR is cheaper per page; Google Cloud Vision OCR is faster; only Marker supports tables, math; only Google Cloud Vision OCR supports handwriting, confidence.
Markerdatalab/marker | Google Cloud Vision OCRgoogle/cloud-vision | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | OCR API |
| Price | 14 credits / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $14.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 2.5 s / page | 1.0 s / page |
| Best for | Books and research papers | Photos and simple scans |
| Inputs | PDF, images, DOCX | PDF, images |
| Languages | 90+ languages | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 2,000 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | No |
| Handwriting | No | ✓ Yes |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | ✓ Yes |
| 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
Marker
Hosted version of the open-source Marker and Surya models. Strong on books and papers.
Marker 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": "datalab/marker",
"fallbacks": ["google/cloud-vision"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}