olmOCR vs Google Cloud Vision OCR
Google Cloud Vision OCR is faster; only olmOCR supports tables, math; only Google Cloud Vision OCR supports bounding boxes, confidence, multilingual.
olmOCRallenai/olmocr | Google Cloud Vision OCRgoogle/cloud-vision | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | OCR API |
| Price | 2 credits / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $2.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.5 s / page | 1.0 s / page |
| Best for | Bulk PDF to text for datasets | Photos and simple scans |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | Mainly English | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 2,000 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | No |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | No | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | ✓ Yes |
| 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
olmOCR
Open-source vision model from Ai2 that turns PDFs into clean, reading-order text.
olmOCR detailsGoogle Cloud Vision OCR
Google Cloud's image OCR with text and document text detection, word boxes and confidence.
Google Cloud Vision OCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "allenai/olmocr",
"fallbacks": ["google/cloud-vision"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}