Markerdatalab/marker | dots.ocrrednote/dots-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | Open source |
| Price | 14 credits / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $14.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 2.5 s / page | 1.5 s / page |
| Best for | Books and research papers | Multilingual document parsing |
| Inputs | PDF, images, DOCX | PDF, images |
| Languages | 90+ languages | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| 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
Marker
Hosted version of the open-source Marker and Surya models. Strong on books and papers.
Marker detailsdots.ocr
Single vision model from rednote that does layout detection and content recognition together.
dots.ocr detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "datalab/marker",
"fallbacks": ["rednote/dots-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}