Which is cheaper, Mistral OCR or OCR.space?

OCR.space. Mistral OCR is 6 credits / page and OCR.space is 1 credit / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. Mistral OCR is strongest at high-volume pdf to markdown, and OCR.space at cheap simple ocr. 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 OCR.space

OCR.space is cheaper per page; Mistral OCR is faster; only Mistral OCR supports math.

Get API key All models

	Mistral OCR`mistral/mistral-ocr`	OCR.space`ocrspace/ocr-space`
Type	OCR API	OCR API
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	Cheap simple OCR
Inputs	PDF, images	PDF, images
Languages	100+ languages	20+ languages
Max pages per request	1,000	100
Tables	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Handwriting	No	No
Math	✓ Yes	No
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

OCR.space

Low-cost OCR API with a large free tier. Returns text, word boxes and searchable PDFs.

OCR.space details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body

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

Questions

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