Which is cheaper, Mistral OCR or Hunyuan OCR?

Hunyuan OCR. Mistral OCR is 6 credits / page and Hunyuan OCR is 2 credits / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. Mistral OCR is strongest at high-volume pdf to markdown, and Hunyuan OCR at chinese documents and photos. Run a few of your own files through both and compare the output.

Yes. Put one as model and the other in fallbacks. If the first fails, the second reads the page, and you pay only for the one that answered.

Mistral OCR vs Hunyuan OCR

Hunyuan OCR is cheaper per page; Mistral OCR is faster.

Get API key All models

	Mistral OCR`mistral/mistral-ocr`	Hunyuan OCR`tencent/hunyuan-ocr`
Type	OCR API	Open source
Price	6 credits / page	2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages	$6.00	$2.00
Typical speed	0.9 s / page	1.5 s / page
Best for	High-volume PDF to Markdown	Chinese documents and photos
Inputs	PDF, images	PDF, images
Languages	100+ 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	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 details

Hunyuan OCR

Small end-to-end OCR model from Tencent covering parsing, extraction and photo translation.

Hunyuan OCR details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body

{
  "model": "mistral/mistral-ocr",
  "fallbacks": ["tencent/hunyuan-ocr"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

Questions

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