Which is cheaper, GPT or MinerU?

MinerU. GPT is 11 credits / page and MinerU is 2 credits / page.

Which is more accurate?

It depends on the document. GPT is strongest at messy scans, custom instructions, and MinerU at academic pdfs. 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.

GPT vs MinerU

MinerU is cheaper per page; MinerU is faster; only GPT supports handwriting; only MinerU supports bounding boxes.

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	GPT`openai/gpt`	MinerU`opendatalab/mineru`
Type	Vision model	Open source
Price	11 credits / page	2 credits / page
Per 1,000 pages	$11.00	$2.00
Typical speed	2.4 s / page	2.0 s / page
Best for	Messy scans, custom instructions	Academic PDFs
Inputs	PDF, images	PDF, images
Languages	50+ languages	80+ languages
Max pages per request	100	500
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

GPT

General vision model. Good at messy scans and following extraction instructions.

GPT details

MinerU

Open-source PDF to Markdown pipeline popular for academic and Chinese documents.

MinerU details

Use one, fall back to the other

Request body

{
  "model": "openai/gpt",
  "fallbacks": ["opendatalab/mineru"],
  "file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}

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