Mistral OCR vs Qianfan OCR
Qianfan OCR is cheaper per page; Mistral OCR is faster; only Mistral OCR supports bounding boxes; only Qianfan OCR supports handwriting.
Mistral OCRmistral/mistral-ocr | Qianfan OCRbaidu/qianfan-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | OCR API |
| Price | 6 credits / page | 1 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $6.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 0.9 s / page | 2.0 s / page |
| Best for | High-volume PDF to Markdown | Chinese documents |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 100+ languages | Chinese, English and more |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 200 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | ✓ Yes |
| Math | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| On OCRRouter | Available | Available |
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 detailsQianfan OCR
Baidu's OCR-tuned vision model. Strong on Chinese documents and tables.
Qianfan OCR detailsTry both on your own file
Run the file once with each model and compare the output.
Result
Your Markdown or JSON shows up here.
Use one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "mistral/mistral-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["baidu/qianfan-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}