Which is cheaper, Claude or Marker?

They cost the same here: 14 credits / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. Claude is strongest at long dense documents, and Marker at books and research papers. 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.

Claude vs Marker

Marker is faster; only Claude supports handwriting; only Marker supports bounding boxes.

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	Claude`anthropic/claude`	Marker`datalab/marker`
Type	Vision model	OCR API
Price	14 credits / page	14 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages	$14.00	$14.00
Typical speed	2.6 s / page	2.5 s / page
Best for	Long dense documents	Books and research papers
Inputs	PDF, images	PDF, images, DOCX
Languages	50+ languages	90+ languages
Max pages per request	100	1,000
Tables	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Handwriting	✓ Yes	No
Math	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Bounding boxes	No	✓ 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

Claude

General vision model with careful reading of long, dense documents.

Claude details

Marker

Hosted version of the open-source Marker and Surya models. Strong on books and papers.

Marker details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body

{
  "model": "anthropic/claude",
  "fallbacks": ["datalab/marker"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

Questions

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