Which is cheaper, Mistral OCR or Nougat?

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

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. Mistral OCR is strongest at high-volume pdf to markdown, and Nougat at arxiv-style papers. 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 Nougat

Nougat is cheaper per page; Mistral OCR is faster; only Mistral OCR supports bounding boxes, multilingual.

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	Mistral OCR`mistral/mistral-ocr`	Nougat`meta/nougat`
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	3.0 s / page
Best for	High-volume PDF to Markdown	arXiv-style papers
Inputs	PDF, images	PDF, images
Languages	100+ languages	Mainly English
Max pages per request	1,000	200
Tables	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Handwriting	No	No
Math	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Bounding boxes	✓ Yes	No
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 details

Nougat

Meta's model that converts academic PDFs to Markdown with LaTeX math.

Nougat details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body

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

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