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Mistral OCR vs olmOCR
2 of 5OCR & Document AI · verified 13 Aug 2026
Mistral OCRMistral AIcurrent
olmOCRAllen Institute for AIcurrent| Specification | Mistral OCR | olmOCR |
|---|---|---|
| Summary | A hosted API built for document ingestion. | Fully open pipeline, weights and data. |
| OmniDocBench | ~92 | ~91 |
| Open weights | No | Yes |
| Handles | Tables, images, equations | Tables, markdown structure |
| Licence | Proprietary | Apache 2.0 |
| Kind | Hosted API | Vision language model |
| Category | OCR & Document AI | OCR & Document AI |
| Official | Mistral AI ↗ | Allen Institute for AI ↗ |
Highlighted rows are where these differ.
Mistral OCR
- Priced per page
- Returns structured markdown
Best for teams who want no infrastructure.
olmOCR
- Preserves reading order and markdown structure
- Training data published, which is rare
Best for reproducible research pipelines.