Qianfan OCR vs Typhoon OCR
Qianfan OCR is cheaper per page; Typhoon OCR is faster; only Qianfan OCR supports math, handwriting.
Qianfan OCRbaidu/qianfan-ocr | Typhoon OCRtyphoon/typhoon-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | Open source |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 2.0 s / page | 1.8 s / page |
| Best for | Chinese documents | Thai documents |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | Chinese, English and more | Thai, English |
| Max pages per request | 200 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | No | No |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| On OCRRouter | Available | 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
Qianfan OCR
Baidu's OCR-tuned vision model. Strong on Chinese documents and tables.
Qianfan OCR detailsTyphoon OCR
Open vision model tuned for Thai and English documents, with Markdown output.
Typhoon OCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "baidu/qianfan-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["typhoon/typhoon-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}