Which is cheaper, Qwen-VL or ABBYY FineReader?

Qwen-VL. Qwen-VL is 2 credits / page and ABBYY FineReader is 14 credits / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. Qwen-VL is strongest at flexible extraction with prompts, and ABBYY FineReader at office scans to word and pdf. Run a few of your own files through both and compare the output.

Yes. Put one as model and the other in fallbacks. If the first fails, the second reads the page, and you pay only for the one that answered.

Qwen-VL vs ABBYY FineReader

Qwen-VL is cheaper per page; only Qwen-VL supports handwriting, math.

Get API key All models

	Qwen-VL`qwen/qwen-vl`	ABBYY FineReader`abbyy/finereader`
Type	Open source	OCR API
Price	2 credits / page	14 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages	$2.00	$14.00
Typical speed	2.0 s / page	2.0 s / page
Best for	Flexible extraction with prompts	Office scans to Word and PDF
Inputs	PDF, images	PDF, images
Languages	30+ languages	190+ languages
Max pages per request	200	1,000
Tables	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Handwriting	✓ Yes	No
Math	✓ Yes	No
Bounding boxes	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Confidence	No	No
Forms	No	No
Multilingual	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
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

Qwen-VL

Alibaba's open-weight vision language models (Qwen2.5-VL, Qwen3-VL). Strong general OCR and grounding.

Qwen-VL details

ABBYY FineReader

Long-standing desktop OCR software. ABBYY also sells OCR SDKs and a cloud API. Price is an estimate.

ABBYY FineReader details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body

{
  "model": "qwen/qwen-vl",
  "fallbacks": ["abbyy/finereader"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

Questions

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