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Cohere Parse 5 vs GLM-OCR vs Qwen3-VL vs DeepSeek-OCR
4 of 5OCR & Document AI · verified 2 Sept 2026
| Specification | Cohere Parse 5 | GLM-OCR | Qwen3-VL | DeepSeek-OCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | Loses the benchmark, wins the invoice. $1.50 per thousand pages. | Currently the top scorer on document parsing. | A general vision model that happens to lead OCR benchmarks. | Compresses pages into far fewer vision tokens. |
| OmniDocBench | 79.2 on ParseBench | 94.6 | ~93 | ~92 |
| Open weights | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Handles | Tables as HTML, forms, diagrams, bounding boxes | Tables, formulas, handwriting | Documents, charts, video | Dense text, tables |
| Licence | Proprietary | Open weights | Apache 2.0 | MIT |
| Kind | Vision language model, 2.3B | Vision language model | Vision language model | Vision language model |
| Category | OCR & Document AI | OCR & Document AI | OCR & Document AI | OCR & Document AI |
| Official | — | Zhipu AI ↗ | Alibaba ↗ | DeepSeek ↗ |
Highlighted rows are where these differ.
Cohere Parse 5
- 2.3B vision language model, about 4.6GB, that turns a page into clean Markdown
- Scores 79.2 on Cohere's ParseBench, behind GPT-5.5 at 84.4 and Opus 4.8 at 84.3
- $1.50 per thousand pages at 4.5 pages a second, which is where it actually wins
Best for documents at volume.
GLM-OCR
- Ahead of Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.2 on the same benchmark
- 94.0 on OCRBench
Best for complex documents end to end.
Qwen3-VL
- Not an OCR model, and beats most of them
- Sizes from 2B to 235B
Best for one model for vision and documents.
DeepSeek-OCR
- Treats the page image as compressed context
- Notable for cost per page rather than raw accuracy
Best for long documents on a budget.