Open-weight reading documents models
33 in the catalogue today. Every one with what it costs, who sells it and where it stands.
Models that read documents — scans, photographs of pages, forms, tables — and return text or structure. The interesting difference between them is not whether they can read a clean page, which they all can, but what they do with a table, a stamp, a handwritten margin or a column that breaks across pages. Several are priced per page rather than per token, which makes them easy to budget and hard to compare with the rest.
Weights published under a licence that lets you run them where you like and sell what you build — Apache 2.0, MIT and their kin impose little beyond keeping the notice. This is the list to start from if you need the model on your own hardware, in your own region, or simply want no third party between you and it. The trade is that hosting is now your problem, and the prices shown beside each one are what somebody else charges to do it for you.
- DeepSeek-OCRDeepSeek$0.2→$0.7per Mtok in / out4 selling
- DeepSeek-OCR 2DeepSeek$0.22→$0.22per Mtok in / out2 selling
- Document AIMistral AI$0.005per page1 selling
- Falcon-OCRtiiuae
- FireRed-OCRFireRed Team
- GLM-OCRZ.ai$0.03→$0.03per Mtok in / out1 selling
- GOT-OCR-2.0-hfstepfun-ai
- GOT-OCR2_0StepFun
- LightOnOCR-1B-1025LightOn AI
- LightOnOCR-2-1BLightOn AI
- MiniCPM-V 4.5OpenBMB$0.66→$1.11per Mtok in / out1 selling
- NuExtract3NuMind
- NuMarkdown-8B-ThinkingNuMind
- OCR-Donut-CORDjinhybr
- OvisOCR2ATH-MaaS
- PaddleOCR-VLpaddlepaddle$0.02→$0.02per Mtok in / out1 selling
- PaddleOCR-VL-0.9Bpaddlepaddle$0.14→$0.8per Mtok in / out1 selling
- PaddleOCR-VL-1.5paddlepaddle
- PaddleOCR-VL-1.6paddlepaddle
- Qianfan-OCRBaidu$0.067→$0.27per Mtok in / out1 selling
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructAlibaba$0.2→$0.88per Mtok in / out10 selling
- Qwen3 VL 235B A22B ThinkingAlibaba$0.22→$0.88per Mtok in / out9 selling
- RolmOCRReducto$0.2→$0.2per Mtok in / out1 selling
- Unlimited-OCRBaidu
- dots.mocrdots studio
- dots.ocrdots studio
- llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hfLlava Hugging Face
- manga-ocr-basekha-white
- olmOCR-2-7B-1025Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)$0.09→$0.19per Mtok in / out1 selling
- olmOCR-7B-0225-previewAi2
- olmOCR-7B-0725-FP8Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)$0.27→$1.5per Mtok in / out1 selling
- olmOCR-7B-0825Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)$0.14→$0.8per Mtok in / out1 selling
- trocr-base-handwrittenMicrosoft