Show HN: OCR Arena – A playground for OCR models
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·November 21, 2025ArcaneMoose
I've been really impressed with this model specifically because of how insanely cheap it is: https://replicate.com/ibm-granite/granite-vision-3.3-2b
I didn't expect IBM to be making relevant AI models but this thing is priced at $1 per 4,000,000 output tokens... I'm using it to transcribe handwritten input text and it works very well and super fast.
zzleeper
Love this! Would have liked to see something like textract for a pre-LLM benchmark (but of course that's expensive), and also a distinction between handwritten text and printed one.
But still, this is incredibly useful!
krashidov
I would be curious to see how Sonnet does. Their models are pretty solid when it comes to PDFs
fzysingularity
FYI one of the models on the battle was pretty slow to load. Are these also being rated on latency or just quality?
ianhawes
Please add Chandra by Datalab
arathis
Claude would be good!
dang
[under-the-rug stub]
[see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45988611 for explanation]
ylhert
We've got like 10 LLM arenas but nothing for OCR yet, really hope this takes off!
athoscouto
Nice! Would love to see Azure Document Intelligence on this
profburial
This is a killer idea!
I built OCR Arena as a free playground for the community to compare leading foundation VLMs and open-source OCR models side-by-side.
Upload any doc, measure accuracy, and (optionally) vote for the models on a public leaderboard.
It currently has Gemini 3, dots.ocr, DeepSeek, GPT5, olmOCR 2, Qwen, and a few others. If there's any others you'd like included, let me know!