GPT vs Tesseract
Tesseract is cheaper per page; Tesseract is faster; only GPT supports tables, handwriting, math.
GPTopenai/gpt | Tesseracttesseract/tesseract | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Vision model | Open source |
| Price | 11 credits / page | Free |
| Per 1,000 pages | $11.00 | $0.00 |
| Typical speed | 2.4 s / page | 0.6 s / page |
| Best for | Messy scans, custom instructions | Clean printed text, free |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 50+ languages | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 100 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | No |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | No | No |
| 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.
ප්රතිඵලය
ඔබගේ Markdown හෝ JSON මෙහි දිස්වේ.
Use one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "openai/gpt",
"fallbacks": ["tesseract/tesseract"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}