RapidOCR vs Google Cloud Vision OCR
RapidOCR is cheaper per page; RapidOCR is faster; only Google Cloud Vision OCR supports handwriting.
RapidOCRrapidai/rapidocr | Google Cloud Vision OCRgoogle/cloud-vision | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | OCR API |
| Price | 1 credit / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 0.6 s / page | 1.0 s / page |
| Best for | Lightweight OCR on CPU or edge | Photos and simple scans |
| Inputs | images | PDF, images |
| Languages | Chinese, English and more | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 100 | 2,000 |
| Tables | No | No |
| Handwriting | No | ✓ Yes |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| 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
RapidOCR
PaddleOCR models packaged for ONNX Runtime and other engines. Easy to deploy without Paddle.
RapidOCR detailsGoogle Cloud Vision OCR
Google Cloud's image OCR with text and document text detection, word boxes and confidence.
Google Cloud Vision OCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "rapidai/rapidocr",
"fallbacks": ["google/cloud-vision"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}