Amazon Textract vs GLM-OCR
GLM-OCR is cheaper per page; Amazon Textract is faster; only Amazon Textract supports forms, handwriting; only GLM-OCR supports math, multilingual.
Amazon Textractaws/textract | GLM-OCRzai/glm-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | Open source |
| Price | 6 credits / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $6.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.2 s / page | 1.3 s / page |
| Best for | Forms and key-value extraction | Low-cost general documents |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 6 languages | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 3,000 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | No | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Forms | ✓ Yes | No |
| Multilingual | No | ✓ Yes |
| On OCRRouter | Available | Available |
Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.
What each one is
Amazon Textract
AWS OCR with form key-value pairs, tables and per-word confidence scores.
Amazon Textract detailsTry both on your own file
Run the file once with each model and compare the output.
Result
Your Markdown or JSON shows up here.
Use one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "aws/textract",
"fallbacks": ["zai/glm-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}