* * * OCR API FOR DEVELOPERS * * *

GREAT OCR
FOR PENNIES.

Send documents, get text back. No minimums, no sales calls, no surprises on your invoice.

START FREE — 1,000 PAGESSEE THE API
1,333 PAGES PER DOLLAR · NO CREDIT CARD
PENNYOCR
YOUR MONTHLY BILL · DRAG TO RING IT UP
10,000 PAGES OCR'D$7.50
FREE TIER (1,000)-$0.75
PLATFORM FEE$0.00
SEATS$0.00
SALES CALLS$0.00
TOTAL$6.75
$0.75 / 1,000 PAGES · THANK YOU
01 / THE API

ONE ENDPOINT.

POST a file, get JSON back. PDF, PNG, JPEG, WebP or TIFF — multipage PDFs billed per page. Done integrating before lunch.

curl https://api.pennyocr.com/v1/ocr \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PENNYOCR_API_KEY" \
  -F "file=@invoice.pdf"

# $0.75 per 1,000 pages, first 1,000 free
02 / PRICE CHECK

HALF THE PRICE OF THE BIG CLOUDS.

Per 1,000 pages, public list prices, first tier. Same text out, half the invoice.

PENNYOCR$0.75
AWS TEXTRACT$1.50
GOOGLE CLOUD VISION$1.50
AZURE DOC INTELLIGENCE$1.50
YOU KEEP50%
03 / THE DETAILS

WHAT'S IN THE BAG.

Modern vision-language models on commodity GPUs — not 2009-era OCR. The savings go into the price.

FORMATS
PDF, PNG, JPEG, WebP, TIFF. Up to 50 MB and 500 pages per request.
HANDLES
Invoices, receipts, contracts, screenshots, skewed scans, tables, terrible handwriting.
BILLING
Pages × price, metered. No minimums, no seats, no platform fee, no "contact sales".
YOUR DATA
Processed and discarded. We don't train on it, and we don't keep your invoices.
SPEED
GPU-powered, tuned for throughput. Text back before your coffee cools.
04 / PRICING
$0.75/ 1,000 PAGES

First 1,000 pages free, every month. We onboard early users by hand — a human replies fast.

GET YOUR API KEY
[email protected]
05 / FAIR QUESTIONS
HOW IS IT THIS CHEAP?
Efficient open models, commodity GPUs, a ruthlessly simple stack, no enterprise sales team to feed.
IS THE ACCURACY GOOD?
Modern VLM-based OCR beats classic engines on real-world documents. Try your worst one on the free tier and judge.
RATE LIMITS?
Generous by default. Doing something big? Email us — we like big.