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DeepSeek-OCR vs GLM-OCR vs Qwen3-VL vs Mistral OCR
4 of 5OCR & Document AI · verified 13 Aug 2026
| Specification | DeepSeek-OCR | GLM-OCR | Qwen3-VL | Mistral OCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | Compresses pages into far fewer vision tokens. | Currently the top scorer on document parsing. | A general vision model that happens to lead OCR benchmarks. | A hosted API built for document ingestion. |
| OmniDocBench | ~92 | 94.6 | ~93 | ~92 |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Handles | Dense text, tables | Tables, formulas, handwriting | Documents, charts, video | Tables, images, equations |
| Licence | MIT | Open weights | Apache 2.0 | Proprietary |
| Kind | Vision language model | Vision language model | Vision language model | Hosted API |
| Category | OCR & Document AI | OCR & Document AI | OCR & Document AI | OCR & Document AI |
| Official | DeepSeek ↗ | Zhipu AI ↗ | Alibaba ↗ | Mistral AI ↗ |
Highlighted rows are where these differ.
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.
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.
Mistral OCR
- Priced per page
- Returns structured markdown
Best for teams who want no infrastructure.