Claude vs DeepSeek-OCR
DeepSeek-OCR is cheaper per page; DeepSeek-OCR is faster; only Claude supports handwriting; only DeepSeek-OCR supports bounding boxes.
Claudeanthropic/claude | DeepSeek-OCRdeepseek/deepseek-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Vision model | Open source |
| Price | 14 credits / page | 1 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $14.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 2.6 s / page | 1.1 s / page |
| Best for | Long dense documents | Cheap bulk conversion |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 50+ languages | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 100 | 200 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | No | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | ✓ 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
Try both on your own file
Run the file once with each model and compare the output.
Resultado
Tu Markdown o JSON aparecerá aquí.
Use one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "anthropic/claude",
"fallbacks": ["deepseek/deepseek-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}