Jina OCR vs PaddleOCR-VL
Jina OCR is cheaper per page; PaddleOCR-VL is faster; only PaddleOCR-VL supports bounding boxes, confidence.
Jina OCRjina/jina-ocr | PaddleOCR-VLpaddle/paddleocr-vl | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Open source | Open source |
| Price | 1 credits / page | 2 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $2.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.5 s / page | 1.3 s / page |
| Best for | Clean Markdown at low cost | CJK documents |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | About 100 languages | 109 languages |
| Max pages per request | 200 | 500 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | No |
| Math | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | No | ✓ 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
Jina OCR
Compact page-to-Markdown model from Jina AI, built on the DeepSeek-OCR encoder.
Jina 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.
結果
辨識出的 Markdown 或 JSON 會顯示在這裡。
Use one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "jina/jina-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["paddle/paddleocr-vl"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}