Typhoon OCR vs Unstructured
Typhoon OCR is cheaper per page; Typhoon OCR is faster; only Unstructured supports bounding boxes.
Typhoon OCRtyphoon/typhoon-ocr | Unstructuredunstructured/unstructured | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | OCR API |
| Price | 2 credits / page | 20 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $2.00 | $20.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.8 s / page | 3.0 s / page |
| Best for | Thai documents | Mixed file types into 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 | No |
| 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 detailsUnstructured
Document ETL for RAG. Partitions many file types into typed elements; open-source library too.
Unstructured detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "typhoon/typhoon-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["unstructured/unstructured"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}