Typhoon OCR vs Google Cloud Vision OCR
Google Cloud Vision OCR is faster; only Typhoon OCR supports tables; only Google Cloud Vision OCR supports handwriting, bounding boxes, confidence.
Typhoon OCRtyphoon/typhoon-ocr | Google Cloud Vision OCRgoogle/cloud-vision | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | OCR API |
| Price | 2 credits / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $2.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.8 s / page | 1.0 s / page |
| Best for | Thai documents | Photos and simple scans |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | Thai, English | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 500 | 2,000 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | No |
| Handwriting | No | ✓ Yes |
| Math | No | No |
| Bounding boxes | No | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | ✓ 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
Typhoon OCR
Open vision model tuned for Thai and English documents, with Markdown output.
Typhoon OCR 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": "typhoon/typhoon-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["google/cloud-vision"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}Questions
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