Which is cheaper, Amazon Textract or Docling?

Docling. Amazon Textract is 6 credits / page and Docling is 2 credits / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. Amazon Textract is strongest at forms and key-value extraction, 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.

Amazon Textract vs Docling

Docling is cheaper per page; Amazon Textract is faster; only Amazon Textract supports forms, handwriting, confidence; only Docling supports math.

Get API key All models

	Amazon Textract`aws/textract`	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	1.2 s / page	2.2 s / page
Best for	Forms and key-value extraction	Structured export for RAG
Inputs	PDF, images	PDF, images, DOCX
Languages	6 languages	Latin scripts, CJK
Max pages per request	3,000	500
Tables	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Handwriting	✓ Yes	No
Math	No	✓ Yes
Bounding boxes	✓ Yes	✓ Yes
Confidence	✓ Yes	No
Forms	✓ Yes	No
Multilingual	No	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

Amazon Textract

AWS OCR with form key-value pairs, tables and per-word confidence scores.

Amazon Textract 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": "aws/textract",
  "fallbacks": ["ibm/docling"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

Questions

More comparisons

LlamaParse vs Docling Amazon Textract vs Tesseract PaddleOCR-VL vs Docling MinerU vs Docling Docling vs Tesseract Mistral OCR vs Amazon Textract Mistral OCR vs Docling Gemini Flash vs Amazon Textract

Amazon Textract alternatives Docling alternatives