Datalab lite OCR costs $0.50 per 1,000 pages, 10x-30x cheaper than Azure, Google, AWS
VikParuchuri · x · 2026-10-28
Datalab founder Vik Paruchuri launched lite, a "System One OCR" cheap enough to run on every page: $0.50 per 1,000 pages, 10x-30x cheaper than Azure, Google and AWS, 2x faster than Azure on long documents, with similar accuracy. The OmniParseBench chart shows lite scoring 78.2 at $0.50/1k pages vs Azure layout at 80.8 ($5), AWS Textract at 71.9 ($15) and Google Document AI at 65.1 ($10).
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