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GLM-OCR vs DeepSeek-OCR
2 of 5OCR & Document AI · verified 13 Aug 2026
GLM-OCRZhipu AIcurrentDeepSeek-OCRDeepSeekcurrent
| Specification | GLM-OCR | DeepSeek-OCR |
|---|---|---|
| Summary | Currently the top scorer on document parsing. | Compresses pages into far fewer vision tokens. |
| OmniDocBench | 94.6 | ~92 |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes |
| Handles | Tables, formulas, handwriting | Dense text, tables |
| Licence | Open weights | MIT |
| Kind | Vision language model | Vision language model |
| Category | OCR & Document AI | OCR & Document AI |
| Official | Zhipu AI ↗ | DeepSeek ↗ |
Highlighted rows are where these differ.
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.
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.