OCR Cost Calculator
Estimate document OCR cost per page.
With the default inputs, $450.00/month — 10,000 pages/day. Enter your own numbers below to recompute instantly; the full step-by-step math is shown under the worked example.
Results update automatically as you type.
- Price per page
- $0.00150
- Per day
- $15.00
- Per month
- $450.00
Estimate the cost of running OCR over documents. Set your per-page price and daily page volume to see the monthly cost of turning scans and PDFs into text.
How this is calculated
Cost = price per page × pages per day × 30. OCR converts scanned pages and images to text at a flat per-page rate; this covers only the OCR step, not the LLM tokens you'll then pay to analyze the extracted text.
Is this a good result? What to do next
OCR itself is cheap per page; the real cost of a document pipeline is usually the LLM analysis that follows. Budget both: OCR to get text, then tokens to do something with it.
Typical planning ranges
- OCR
- fractions of a cent to cents per page
- LLM analysis
- separate, usually larger
- Cost
- scales linearly with pages
Ranges are typical planning figures to sanity-check your result, not authoritative benchmarks. Your numbers will vary with use case, volume, and vendor.
How to improve this number
- OCR only the pages you need.
- Use a cheaper OCR tier for clean, printed text.
- Pair with a cheap model for the analysis step.
Common mistakes
- Forgetting the downstream LLM token cost.
- OCR'ing entire documents when a few pages matter.
When to use a different approach
For the LLM half, use the PDF token and cost calculator. For audio, use the speech-to-text cost calculator.
Worked example (defaults)
With the default inputs above, here is the result:
- Price per page
- $0.00150
- Per day
- $15.00
- Per month
- $450.00
Frequently asked questions
OCR then LLM — how do costs combine?+
OCR converts images to text per page; then you pay LLM tokens to analyze that text. Use the PDF token calculator for the LLM half.