Reducto Parse vs Qianfan OCR
Qianfan OCR is cheaper per page; Qianfan OCR is faster; only Reducto Parse supports forms, bounding boxes, confidence; only Qianfan OCR supports math, handwriting, multilingual.
Reducto Parsereducto/parse | Qianfan OCRbaidu/qianfan-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | OCR API |
| Price | 20 credits / page | 1 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $20.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 4.0 s / page | 2.0 s / page |
| Best for | High-stakes complex documents | Chinese documents |
| Inputs | PDF, images, DOCX | PDF, images |
| Languages | 50+ languages | Chinese, English and more |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 200 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | ✓ Yes |
| Math | No | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | No |
| Forms | ✓ Yes | No |
| Multilingual | No | ✓ Yes |
| On OCRRouter | Coming soon | Available |
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 detailsQianfan OCR
Baidu's OCR-tuned vision model. Strong on Chinese documents and tables.
Qianfan OCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "reducto/parse",
"fallbacks": ["baidu/qianfan-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}