Typhoon OCR vs Chunkr
Typhoon OCR is cheaper per page; Typhoon OCR is faster; only Chunkr supports math, bounding boxes.
Typhoon OCRtyphoon/typhoon-ocr | Chunkrchunkr/chunkr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | OCR API |
| Price | 2 credits / page | 14 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $2.00 | $14.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.8 s / page | 3.0 s / page |
| Best for | Thai documents | Layout-aware chunks for RAG |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images, DOCX |
| Languages | Thai, English | Multilingual |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 1,000 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | No | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | No | ✓ 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
Typhoon OCR
Open vision model tuned for Thai and English documents, with Markdown output.
Typhoon OCR detailsChunkr
Document parsing API that segments and chunks pages for RAG. Self-hostable version available.
Chunkr detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "typhoon/typhoon-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["chunkr/chunkr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}