Which is cheaper, Qianfan OCR or Docling?

Qianfan OCR. Qianfan OCR is 1 credits / page and Docling is 2 credits / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. Qianfan OCR is strongest at chinese documents, and Docling at structured export for rag. Run a few of your own files through both and compare the output.

Yes. Put one as model and the other in fallbacks. If the first fails, the second reads the page, and you pay only for the one that answered.

Qianfan OCR vs Docling

Qianfan OCR is cheaper per page; Qianfan OCR is faster; only Qianfan OCR supports handwriting, multilingual; only Docling supports bounding boxes.

Get API key All models

	Qianfan OCR`baidu/qianfan-ocr`	Docling`ibm/docling`
Type	OCR API	Open source
Price	1 credits / page	2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages	$1.00	$2.00
Typical speed	2.0 s / page	2.2 s / page
Best for	Chinese documents	Structured export for RAG
Inputs	PDF, images	PDF, images, DOCX
Languages	Chinese, English and more	Latin scripts, CJK
Max pages per request	200	500
Tables	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Handwriting	✓ Yes	No
Math	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Bounding boxes	No	✓ Yes
Confidence	No	No
Forms	No	No
Multilingual	✓ Yes	No
On OCRRouter	Available	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

Qianfan OCR

Baidu's OCR-tuned vision model. Strong on Chinese documents and tables.

Qianfan OCR details

Docling

IBM's open-source document converter with a structured document model.

Docling details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body

{
  "model": "baidu/qianfan-ocr",
  "fallbacks": ["ibm/docling"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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