Mistral OCR vs Claude
Mistral OCR is cheaper per page; Mistral OCR is faster; only Mistral OCR supports bounding boxes; only Claude supports handwriting.
Mistral OCRmistral/mistral-ocr | Claudeanthropic/claude | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | OCR API | Vision model |
| Price | 6 credits / page | 14 credits / page |
| Per 1,000 pages | $6.00 | $14.00 |
| Typical speed | 0.9 s / page | 2.6 s / page |
| Best for | High-volume PDF to Markdown | Long dense documents |
| Inputs | PDF, images | PDF, images |
| Languages | 100+ languages | 50+ languages |
| Max pages per request | 1,000 | 100 |
| Tables | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Handwriting | No | ✓ Yes |
| Math | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Bounding boxes | ✓ Yes | No |
| Confidence | No | No |
| 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
Mistral OCR
Fast document OCR that returns clean Markdown with tables and embedded images.
Mistral 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": "mistral/mistral-ocr",
"fallbacks": ["anthropic/claude"],
"file_url": "https://example.com/document.pdf"
}