Mistral OCR vs PaddleOCR-VL
PaddleOCR-VL is cheaper per page; Mistral OCR is faster; only PaddleOCR-VL supports confidence.
Mistral OCRmistral/mistral-ocr | PaddleOCR-VLpaddle/paddleocr-vl | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1.3 s / page |
| Best for | High-volume PDF to Markdown | CJK documents |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 100+ languages | 109 languages |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Confidence | No | ✓ Yes |
| 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 detailsPaddleOCR-VL
Open-source document model from Baidu. Excellent on Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
PaddleOCR-VL detailsTry both on your own file
Run the file once with each model and compare the output.
结果
识别出的 Markdown 或 JSON 会显示在这里。
Use one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "mistral/mistral-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["paddle/paddleocr-vl"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}