PaddleOCR VL
Compact vision-language model for multilingual document parsing, OCR, tables, formulas, and charts.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $0.02per 1M tokens
- Output
- $0.02per 1M tokens
- Context
- 131K16K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.02per million tokens
- Output
- $0.02per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.02cheaper than 98% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $0.05 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $0.60 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $6.00 |
Median of 1 paid API provider on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for PaddleOCR VL yet.
The details
- Lab
- PaddlePaddle
- Released
- Oct 16, 2025
- Context window
- 131,072 tokens
- Max output
- 16,384 tokens
- Inputs
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- No
- Tool calling
- No
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Open weights · Apache-2.0
- Availability
- 1 API providerlisted on models.dev
About PaddleOCR VL
How much does PaddleOCR VL cost?
PaddleOCR VL costs $0.02 input / $0.02 output per million tokens (median across 1 API provider). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.02 per million tokens, cheaper than 98% of the 445 priced models we track.
What is the context window of PaddleOCR VL?
PaddleOCR VL accepts up to 131,072 tokens per request and can write up to 16,384 tokens in one response.
How good is PaddleOCR VL?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for PaddleOCR VL yet.
Is PaddleOCR VL open source?
Yes. PaddlePaddle publishes the weights under the Apache-2.0 licence, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.
What inputs does PaddleOCR VL support?
PaddleOCR VL accepts text and images and replies in text. It is not a dedicated reasoning model, does not support tool calling.
When was PaddleOCR VL released?
PaddlePaddle released PaddleOCR VL on Oct 16, 2025.
What are the best alternatives to PaddleOCR VL?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Granite-4.0-H-Micro (IBM, $0.018 / $0.115), Nova 2 Pro (Amazon, Free / Free), GLM-4.5-Flash (Z.ai (Zhipu), Free / Free) and Voxtral Mini 3B 2507 (Mistral AI, $0.04 / $0.04).