LightOn OCR-3 now on OpenDocRouter, near Gemini 3.8 Flash at lower cost
Original titleLightOn OCR-3 is now available on OpenDocRouter, priced at $0.28 / 1m input and $1.40 / 1m output (it is ~$3.19 / 1k pages on ParseBench).
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LightOn OCR-3 is now available on OpenDocRouter at $0.28 per 1M input tokens and $1.40 per 1M output tokens, about $3.19 per 1k pages on ParseBench.
On ParseBench, the author says it sits on the Pareto frontier for open-weight OCR models, with performance similar to Gemini 3.8 Flash low at roughly 45% lower price. It is described as decent at tables, workable for charts, and quite good at grounding.
Source: Jerry Liu · x.comPublished · added here