Pyyan / Compare / Surya vs Qwen3-VL vs DeepSeek-OCR
Surya vs Qwen3-VL vs DeepSeek-OCR
3 of 5OCR & Document AI · verified 13 Aug 2026
| Specification | Surya | Qwen3-VL | DeepSeek-OCR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | Fast layout and reading-order detection in 90+ languages. | A general vision model that happens to lead OCR benchmarks. | Compresses pages into far fewer vision tokens. |
| OmniDocBench | ~87 | ~93 | ~92 |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Handles | Layout, reading order, tables | Documents, charts, video | Dense text, tables |
| Licence | GPL-3.0 | Apache 2.0 | MIT |
| Kind | Pipeline | Vision language model | Vision language model |
| Category | OCR & Document AI | OCR & Document AI | OCR & Document AI |
| Official | Datalab ↗ | Alibaba ↗ | DeepSeek ↗ |
Highlighted rows are where these differ.
Surya
- Line-level detection that holds up on scans
- Pairs with a recognition model
Best for layout analysis at speed.
Qwen3-VL
- Not an OCR model, and beats most of them
- Sizes from 2B to 235B
Best for one model for vision and documents.
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.