Reducto Parse vs Granite Docling
Granite Docling is cheaper per page; Granite Docling is faster; only Reducto Parse supports forms, confidence; only Granite Docling supports math.
Reducto Parsereducto/parse | Granite Doclingibm/granite-docling | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | Open source |
| Price | 20 credits / page | 1 credit / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $20.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 4.0 s / page | 1.5 s / page |
| Best for | High-stakes complex documents | Small-model document conversion |
| Inputs | PDF, images, DOCX | PDF, images |
| Languages | 50+ languages | English, experimental CJK and Arabic |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | No | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | No |
| Forms | ✓ Yes | No |
| Multilingual | No | No |
| 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
Reducto Parse
High-accuracy parsing for complex financial and legal documents, with citations.
Reducto Parse detailsGranite Docling
Compact IBM vision model that converts pages to DocTags for the Docling pipeline.
Granite Docling detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "reducto/parse",
"fallbacks": ["ibm/granite-docling"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}