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DeepSeek-OCR vs dots.ocr vs Qwen3-VL

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OCR & Document AI · verified 13 Aug 2026

×DeepSeek-OCRDeepSeekcurrent
×dots.ocrXiaohongshucurrent
×Qwen3-VLAlibabacurrent
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SpecificationDeepSeek-OCRdots.ocrQwen3-VL
SummaryCompresses pages into far fewer vision tokens.Small, multilingual, layout-aware.A general vision model that happens to lead OCR benchmarks.
OmniDocBench~92~93~93
Open weightsYesYesYes
HandlesDense text, tablesLayout, 100+ languagesDocuments, charts, video
LicenceMITMITApache 2.0
KindVision language modelVision language modelVision language model
CategoryOCR & Document AIOCR & Document AIOCR & Document AI
OfficialDeepSeek ↗Xiaohongshu ↗Alibaba ↗

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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.

Full spec sheet →

dots.ocr

  • Layout and content in one pass
  • Strong for its size

Best for multilingual layout parsing.

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Qwen3-VL

  • Not an OCR model, and beats most of them
  • Sizes from 2B to 235B

Best for one model for vision and documents.

Full spec sheet →