Pick MinerU if
research and RAG teams who will run the repo or stay on hosted Free/Pro.
Read the MinerU pageMinerU vs olmOCR
Our take
Pick MinerU if you're on a research and RAG team who will run the repo or stay on hosted Free/Pro. Pick olmOCR if you're researchers who will clone olmOCR or poke the demo. Skip MinerU if you're on a aP team who need invoice key-values (Parseur). Skip olmOCR if you're on a aP team who need Forms $50 / 1k (AWS Textract).
Best for
MinerU Papers and chem drawings → RAG-ready files
olmOCR Academic/technical PDFs you can self-host
Free plan
MinerU $0 · under the project license. Separate commercial terms above 100M MAU or $20M monthly revenue; online services must attribute MinerU
olmOCR $0 · apache-2.0. You pay GPU
Lowest paid
MinerU Pro · Monthly $9.90/mo
olmOCR Not published by the vendor
Next step up
MinerU Pro · Annual $59.90/mo
olmOCR
Runs where
MinerU Hosted
olmOCR Local or hosted
Watch out
MinerU Free has no API
olmOCR You bring the GPU
Last checked
MinerU 2026-10-28 · mineru.io
olmOCR 2026-10-28 · github.com/allenai/olmocr
Which one, then?
Pick olmOCR if
researchers who will clone olmOCR or poke the demo.
Read the olmOCR page