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Mistral OCR vs GOT-OCR 2.0

GOT-OCR 2.0 is cheaper per page; Mistral OCR is faster; only Mistral OCR supports multilingual.

Mistral OCRmistral/mistral-ocrGOT-OCR 2.0stepfun/got-ocr-2
TypeOCR APIOpen source
Price6 credits / page1 credit / page
Per 1,000 pages$6.00$1.00
Typical speed0.9 s / page1.5 s / page
Best forHigh-volume PDF to MarkdownFormatted text, formulas and charts
InputsPDF, imagesimages
Languages100+ languagesChinese, English
Max pages per request1,000100
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Bounding boxes✓ Yes✓ Yes
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNoNo
Multilingual✓ YesNo
On OCRRouterAvailableComing soon

Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.

What each one is

Mistral OCR

Fast document OCR that returns clean Markdown with tables and embedded images.

Mistral OCR details

GOT-OCR 2.0

Unified OCR model that reads plain text, tables, formulas, sheet music and charts.

GOT-OCR 2.0 details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "mistral/mistral-ocr",
  "fallbacks": ["stepfun/got-ocr-2"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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