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Mistral OCR vs dots.ocr vs Qwen3-VL

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OCR & Document AI · verified 13 Aug 2026

×Mistral OCRMistral AIcurrent
×dots.ocrXiaohongshucurrent
×Qwen3-VLAlibabacurrent
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SpecificationMistral OCRdots.ocrQwen3-VL
SummaryA hosted API built for document ingestion.Small, multilingual, layout-aware.A general vision model that happens to lead OCR benchmarks.
OmniDocBench~92~93~93
Open weightsNoYesYes
HandlesTables, images, equationsLayout, 100+ languagesDocuments, charts, video
LicenceProprietaryMITApache 2.0
KindHosted APIVision language modelVision language model
CategoryOCR & Document AIOCR & Document AIOCR & Document AI
OfficialMistral AI ↗Xiaohongshu ↗Alibaba ↗

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Mistral OCR

  • Priced per page
  • Returns structured markdown

Best for teams who want no infrastructure.

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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 →