Datalab's Chandra OCR 2.6 beats frontier models at 5-15x lower price
VikParuchuri · x · 2026-10-28
Datalab released Chandra OCR 2.6 on its API, claiming better accuracy than frontier models at a fraction of the cost.
- Outscores Gemini Flash 3.8 (92.7, $37.08/1k pages), GPT-6.1 Sol (91.4, $30.95) and Claude Opus 5.5 (90.7, $68.45) on OmniParseBench: 94.1 for accurate tier ($10) and 92.6 for balanced ($4)
- 5-15x cheaper, 2-10x faster with <5s p50 latency
- 2.5x faster than Chandra OCR 2.4: median per-page time dropped from 17.0s to 6.7s, p90 from 33.3s to 14.1s
- Demo includes accurate transcription of Lincoln's 1854 handwriting
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