Reducto Parse vs SmolDocling
SmolDocling is cheaper per page; SmolDocling is faster; only Reducto Parse supports forms, confidence; only SmolDocling supports math.
Reducto Parsereducto/parse | SmolDoclinghuggingface/smoldocling | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1.0 s / page |
| Best for | High-stakes complex documents | Very cheap page conversion |
| Inputs | PDF, images, DOCX | PDF, images |
| Languages | 50+ languages | Mainly English |
| 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 detailsSmolDocling
Tiny 256M vision model from Hugging Face and IBM that outputs DocTags. Predecessor of Granite Docling.
SmolDocling detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "reducto/parse",
"fallbacks": ["huggingface/smoldocling"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}