LlamaParse vs Jina OCR
Jina OCR is cheaper per page; Jina OCR is faster; only LlamaParse supports bounding boxes.
LlamaParsellamaindex/llamaparse | Jina OCRjina/jina-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | Open source |
| Price | 5 credits / page | 1 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $5.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 3.0 s / page | 1.5 s / page |
| Best for | RAG ingestion | Clean Markdown at low cost |
| Inputs | PDF, images, DOCX | PDF, images |
| Languages | 80+ languages | About 100 languages |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 200 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | No | No |
| Forms | No | No |
| Multilingual | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| On OCRRouter | Coming soon | Available |
Prices are what you pay on OCRRouter. Speed is the provider's typical figure, not a benchmark we ran.
What each one is
Jina OCR
Compact page-to-Markdown model from Jina AI, built on the DeepSeek-OCR encoder.
Jina OCR detailsUse one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "llamaindex/llamaparse",
"fallbacks": ["jina/jina-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}