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Alternatives

Mistral OCR 4.1: document parsing to structured text when you want text, not compressed pages.
Qwen-VL: a general vision-language family for image understanding without the compression trick.
Ling 3.0 Flash VL: a smaller multimodal option for cost-sensitive pipelines.

Mistral OCR 4.1

Mistral OCR 4.1 is Mistral's document OCR service from July 16, 2026, with paragraph-level bounding boxes and confidence scores, at $4 per 1,000 pages.

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800000DR: 90AS: 88

Qwen-VL

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Qwen-VL is Alibaba Cloud's 2023 vision-language model on Qwen-7B that takes images, text and boxes, with 448 input resolution, grounding and text-reading OCR.

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245DR: 91AS: 85

Ling-3.0-flash-VL

Models

Ling-3.0-flash-VL is inclusionAI's MIT multimodal MoE: 124B total, 5.5B active, with image and video.

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