Datalab's Fast Mode OCR Nears Gemini Accuracy at a Fraction of the Cost

Datalab founder Vik Paruchuri announced an upgraded fast mode OCR that outperforms Opus 5.5 on its OmniParseBench benchmark (16,288 tests, 2,937 pages), trailing only Gemini while costing 1/4 to 1/68 as much and running 6x faster.

2026-11-12 ~ 2026-11-12 · 2 related posts

• Datalab fast-mode OCR beats Opus 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol at 1/4 to 1/68 the price — VikParuchuri · 2026-11-12
• Datalab claims parsing accuracy second only to Gemini at 1/37 the cost and 6x speed — VikParuchuri · 2026-11-12