Azure Document Intelligence vs Jina OCR
Jina OCR is cheaper per page; only Azure Document Intelligence supports forms, handwriting, bounding boxes, confidence; only Jina OCR supports math.
Azure Document Intelligenceazure/document-intelligence | Jina OCRjina/jina-ocr | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | Open source |
| Price | 15 credits / page | 1 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $15.00 | $1.00 |
| Typical speed | 1.5 s / page | 1.5 s / page |
| Best for | Enterprise forms and IDs | Clean Markdown at low cost |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 300+ languages | About 100 languages |
| Max pages per request | 2,000 | 200 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | ✓ Yes | No |
| Math | No | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | ✓ Yes | No |
| Forms | ✓ Yes | 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
Azure Document Intelligence
Azure layout model with tables, selection marks and prebuilt invoice and ID readers.
Azure Document Intelligence detailsJina OCR
Compact page-to-Markdown model from Jina AI, built on the DeepSeek-OCR encoder.
Jina OCR detailsTry both on your own file
Run the file once with each model and compare the output.
Result
Your Markdown or JSON shows up here.
Use one, fall back to the other
Request body
{
"model": "azure/document-intelligence",
"fallbacks": ["jina/jina-ocr"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}Questions
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