MinerU vs Unstructured
MinerU is cheaper per page; MinerU is faster; only MinerU supports math.
MinerUopendatalab/mineru | Unstructuredunstructured/unstructured | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | OCR API |
| Price | 2 credits / page | 20 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $2.00 | $20.00 |
| Typical speed | 2.0 s / page | 3.0 s / page |
| Best for | Academic PDFs | Mixed file types into RAG |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images, DOCX |
| Languages | 80+ languages | Multilingual |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 1,000 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| 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
MinerU
Open-source PDF to Markdown pipeline popular for academic and Chinese documents.
MinerU detailsUnstructured
Document ETL for RAG. Partitions many file types into typed elements; open-source library too.
Unstructured detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "opendatalab/mineru",
"fallbacks": ["unstructured/unstructured"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}