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Hosted PaddleOCR-VL-1.6 API

Hosted PaddleOCR-VL-1.6 API

by TimurKramar·Jul 23, 2026·5 points·0 comments
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Cheapest OCR API at $1 per 1,000 pages, but it's just a hosted wrapper around PaddleOCR.

Strengths
  • •Normalizes output shapes so parser model swaps don't break downstream code.
  • •Block-level citation IDs allow verifying exactly where extracted data came from.
  • •Async and batch endpoints handle large document volumes without timing out.
Weaknesses
  • •No on-premise deployment option for sensitive enterprise documents.
  • •Competes with free self-hosting if you already manage GPU infrastructure.
Category
AI/ML
Target Audience

Backend developers building document processing pipelines

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Post Description

We do a lot of document processing, and PaddleOCR-VL-1.6 is one of the best open models we've used. We wanted to use it as an api, but couldn't find anyone hosting it. so we started hosting it ourselves, but to get full utilization on the GPUs, we decided to let others use it as well.

If we did the pricing math right (which I hope we did), it should be the cheapest OCR there is, at just $0.001/page. Let us know if you find it useful

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