Pick Docling if
engineers who will run MIT Docling on a laptop or cluster.
Read the Docling pageDocling vs MinerU
Our take
Pick Docling if you're an engineer who will run MIT Docling on a laptop or cluster. Pick MinerU if you're on a research and RAG team who will run the repo or stay on hosted Free/Pro. Skip Docling if you're on a team that need a hosted $/page SLA (AWS Textract) without operating Python. Skip MinerU if you're on a aP team who need invoice key-values (Parseur).
Best for
Docling A local parse you can run offline
MinerU Papers and chem drawings → RAG-ready files
Free plan
Docling $0 · mIT license. You pay CPU/GPU
MinerU $0 · under the project license. Separate commercial terms above 100M MAU or $20M monthly revenue; online services must attribute MinerU
Lowest paid
Docling Not published by the vendor
MinerU Pro · Monthly $9.90/mo
Next step up
Docling
MinerU Pro · Annual $59.90/mo
Coding agent
Docling MCP / API / serve
MinerU
Runs where
Docling Hosted
MinerU Hosted
Watch out
Docling You bring hardware
MinerU Free has no API
Last checked
Docling 2026-10-28 · github.com/docling-project/docling
MinerU 2026-10-28 · mineru.io
Which one, then?
Pick MinerU if
research and RAG teams who will run the repo or stay on hosted Free/Pro.
Read the MinerU page