Mistral OCR vs Granite Docling
Granite Docling is cheaper per page; Mistral OCR is faster; only Mistral OCR supports multilingual.
Mistral OCRmistral/mistral-ocr | Granite Doclingibm/granite-docling | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | Open source |
| Price | 6 credits / page | 1 credit / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $6.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 0.9 s / page | 1.5 s / page |
| Best for | High-volume PDF to Markdown | Small-model document conversion |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 100+ languages | English, experimental CJK and Arabic |
| 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 | No |
| On OCRRouter | Available | 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
Mistral OCR
Fast document OCR that returns clean Markdown with tables and embedded images.
Mistral OCR detailsGranite Docling
Compact IBM vision model that converts pages to DocTags for the Docling pipeline.
Granite Docling detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "mistral/mistral-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["ibm/granite-docling"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}