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Nougat vs Donut

Donut is cheaper per page; Donut is faster; only Nougat supports tables, math; only Donut supports forms.

Nougatmeta/nougatDonutnaver/donut
TypeOpen sourceOpen source
Price2 credits / page1 credit / page
Per 1,000 pages$2.00$1.00
Typical speed3.0 s / page1.0 s / page
Best forarXiv-style papersReceipt and form fields after fine-tuning
InputsPDF, imagesimages
LanguagesMainly EnglishEnglish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean
Max pages per request200100
Tables✓ YesNo
HandwritingNoNo
Math✓ YesNo
Bounding boxesNoNo
ConfidenceNoNo
FormsNo✓ Yes
MultilingualNoNo
On OCRRouterComing soonComing soon

Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.

What each one is

Nougat

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

Nougat details

Donut

OCR-free document understanding model. Fine-tuned for receipts, forms and document Q&A.

Donut details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body
{
  "model": "meta/nougat",
  "fallbacks": ["naver/donut"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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