MonkeyOCR vs Typhoon OCR
MonkeyOCR is faster; only MonkeyOCR supports math, bounding boxes; only Typhoon OCR supports multilingual.
MonkeyOCRmonkeyocr/monkeyocr | Typhoon OCRtyphoon/typhoon-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | 2 credits / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $2.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.5 s / page | 1.8 s / page |
| Best for | Chinese and English PDFs | Thai documents |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | Chinese, English | Thai, English |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | No | ✓ Yes |
| On OCRRouter | Coming soon | 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
MonkeyOCR
Open-source document parser that splits work into structure, recognition and relation steps.
MonkeyOCR detailsTyphoon OCR
Open vision model tuned for Thai and English documents, with Markdown output.
Typhoon OCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "monkeyocr/monkeyocr",
"fallbacks": ["typhoon/typhoon-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}