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Reducto Parse vs Nougat

Nougat is cheaper per page; Nougat is faster; only Reducto Parse supports forms, bounding boxes, confidence; only Nougat supports math.

Reducto Parsereducto/parseNougatmeta/nougat
TypeOCR APIOpen source
Price20 credits / page2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages$20.00$2.00
Typical speed4.0 s / page3.0 s / page
Best forHigh-stakes complex documentsarXiv-style papers
InputsPDF, images, DOCXPDF, images
Languages50+ languagesMainly English
Max pages per request1,000200
Tables✓ Yes✓ Yes
HandwritingNoNo
MathNo✓ Yes
Bounding boxes✓ YesNo
Confidence✓ YesNo
Forms✓ YesNo
MultilingualNoNo
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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 details

Nougat

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

Nougat details

Use one, fall back to the other

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

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