Which is cheaper, DeepSeek-OCR or MinerU?

DeepSeek-OCR. DeepSeek-OCR is 1 credits / page and MinerU is 2 credits / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. DeepSeek-OCR is strongest at cheap bulk conversion, 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.

DeepSeek-OCR vs MinerU

DeepSeek-OCR is cheaper per page; DeepSeek-OCR is faster.

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	DeepSeek-OCR`deepseek/deepseek-ocr`	MinerU`opendatalab/mineru`
Type	Open source	Open source
Price	1 credits / page	2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages	$1.00	$2.00
Typical speed	1.1 s / page	2.0 s / page
Best for	Cheap bulk conversion	Academic PDFs
Inputs	PDF, images	PDF, images
Languages	100+ languages	80+ languages
Max pages per request	200	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	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

DeepSeek-OCR

Open-source vision model that compresses pages into few tokens.

DeepSeek-OCR 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": "deepseek/deepseek-ocr",
  "fallbacks": ["opendatalab/mineru"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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