Mistral OCR vs Tesseract
Tesseract is cheaper per page; Tesseract is faster; only Mistral OCR supports tables, math, bounding boxes.
Mistral OCRmistral/mistral-ocr | Tesseracttesseract/tesseract | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | Open source |
| Price | 6 credits / page | Free |
| Per 1,000 pages | $6.00 | $0.00 |
| Typical speed | 0.9 s / page | 0.6 s / page |
| Best for | High-volume PDF to Markdown | Clean printed text, free |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 100+ languages | 100+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | No |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | No |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | 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
Mistral OCR
Fast document OCR that returns clean Markdown with tables and embedded images.
Mistral OCR detailsTry both on your own file
Run the file once with each model and compare the output.
Резултат
Ваш Markdown или JSON ће се појавити овде.
Use one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "mistral/mistral-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["tesseract/tesseract"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}