Which is cheaper, Tesseract or GOT-OCR 2.0?

Tesseract. Tesseract is free and GOT-OCR 2.0 is 1 credit / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. Tesseract is strongest at clean printed text, free, and GOT-OCR 2.0 at formatted text, formulas and charts. 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.

Tesseract vs GOT-OCR 2.0

Tesseract is cheaper per page; Tesseract is faster; only Tesseract supports multilingual; only GOT-OCR 2.0 supports tables, math, bounding boxes.

Get API key All models

	Tesseract`tesseract/tesseract`	GOT-OCR 2.0`stepfun/got-ocr-2`
Type	Open source	Open source
Price	Free	1 credit / page
Per 1,000 pages	$0.00	$1.00
Typical speed	0.6 s / page	1.5 s / page
Best for	Clean printed text, free	Formatted text, formulas and charts
Inputs	PDF, images	images
Languages	100+ languages	Chinese, English
Max pages per request	500	100
Tables	No	✓ Yes
Handwriting	No	No
Math	No	✓ Yes
Bounding boxes	No	✓ Yes
Confidence	No	No
Forms	No	No
Multilingual	✓ Yes	No
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

Tesseract

The classic open-source OCR engine. Plain text from clean printed scans.

Tesseract details

GOT-OCR 2.0

Unified OCR model that reads plain text, tables, formulas, sheet music and charts.

GOT-OCR 2.0 details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body

{
  "model": "tesseract/tesseract",
  "fallbacks": ["stepfun/got-ocr-2"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

Questions

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