Reducto Parse vs olmOCR
OlmOCR is cheaper per page; olmOCR is faster; only Reducto Parse supports forms, bounding boxes, confidence; only olmOCR supports math, handwriting.
Reducto Parsereducto/parse | olmOCRallenai/olmocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | Open source |
| Price | 20 credits / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $20.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 4.0 s / page | 1.5 s / page |
| Best for | High-stakes complex documents | Bulk PDF to text for datasets |
| Inputs | PDF, images, DOCX | PDF, images |
| Languages | 50+ languages | Mainly English |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | ✓ Yes |
| Math | No | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| 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 detailsolmOCR
Open-source vision model from Ai2 that turns PDFs into clean, reading-order text.
olmOCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "reducto/parse",
"fallbacks": ["allenai/olmocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}