Which is cheaper, Mistral OCR or Docling?

Docling. Mistral OCR is 6 credits / page and Docling is 2 credits / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. Mistral OCR is strongest at high-volume pdf to markdown, 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.

Mistral OCR vs Docling

Docling is cheaper per page; Mistral OCR is faster; only Mistral OCR supports multilingual.

Get API key All models

	Mistral OCR`mistral/mistral-ocr`	Docling`ibm/docling`
Type	OCR API	Open source
Price	6 credits / page	2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages	$6.00	$2.00
Typical speed	0.9 s / page	2.2 s / page
Best for	High-volume PDF to Markdown	Structured export for RAG
Inputs	PDF, images	PDF, images, DOCX
Languages	100+ languages	Latin scripts, CJK
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	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

Mistral OCR

Fast document OCR that returns clean Markdown with tables and embedded images.

Mistral 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": "mistral/mistral-ocr",
  "fallbacks": ["ibm/docling"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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