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DeepSeek-OCR vs Cohere Parse 5

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OCR & Document AI · verified 2 Sept 2026

DeepSeek-OCRDeepSeekcurrent
CCohere Parse 5Coherecurrent
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SpecificationDeepSeek-OCRCohere Parse 5
SummaryCompresses pages into far fewer vision tokens.Loses the benchmark, wins the invoice. $1.50 per thousand pages.
OmniDocBench~9279.2 on ParseBench
Open weightsYesNo
HandlesDense text, tablesTables as HTML, forms, diagrams, bounding boxes
LicenceMITProprietary
KindVision language modelVision language model, 2.3B
CategoryOCR & Document AIOCR & Document AI
OfficialDeepSeek ↗—

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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.

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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.

Full spec sheet →