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Marker vs Nanonets-OCR

Nanonets-OCR is cheaper per page; Nanonets-OCR is faster; only Marker supports bounding boxes; only Nanonets-OCR supports forms.

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Markerdatalab/markerNanonets-OCRnanonets/nanonets-ocr
TypeOCR APIOpen source
Price14 credits / page2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$14.00$2.00
Typical speed2.5 s / page1.8 s / page
Best forBooks and research papersMarkdown with semantic tags
InputsPDF, images, DOCXPDF, images
Languages90+ languagesMultilingual
Max pages per request1,000500
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Bounding boxes✓ YesNo
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNo✓ Yes
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

Marker

Hosted version of the open-source Marker and Surya models. Strong on books and papers.

Marker details

Nanonets-OCR

Open image-to-Markdown model that tags tables, equations, signatures, watermarks and checkboxes.

Nanonets-OCR details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "datalab/marker",
  "fallbacks": ["nanonets/nanonets-ocr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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