Which is cheaper, LlamaParse or MinerU?

MinerU. LlamaParse is 5 credits / page and MinerU is 2 credits / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. LlamaParse is strongest at rag ingestion, and MinerU at academic pdfs. 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.

LlamaParse vs MinerU

MinerU is cheaper per page; MinerU is faster.

Get API key All models

	LlamaParse`llamaindex/llamaparse`	MinerU`opendatalab/mineru`
Type	OCR API	Open source
Price	5 credits / page	2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages	$5.00	$2.00
Typical speed	3.0 s / page	2.0 s / page
Best for	RAG ingestion	Academic PDFs
Inputs	PDF, images, DOCX	PDF, images
Languages	80+ languages	80+ languages
Max pages per request	1,000	500
Tables	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Handwriting	No	No
Math	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Bounding boxes	✓ Yes	✓ 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

LlamaParse

Document parser built for RAG pipelines, with several quality tiers.

LlamaParse details

MinerU

Open-source PDF to Markdown pipeline popular for academic and Chinese documents.

MinerU details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body

{
  "model": "llamaindex/llamaparse",
  "fallbacks": ["opendatalab/mineru"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

Questions

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