PaddleOCR VL: API pricing, providers and specs
PaddleOCR VL is a text model by Paddlepaddle. One provider serves it: Novita AI, at $0.02 /1M.
How PaddleOCR VL compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.02 /1M, its lowest price undercuts 99% of comparable models (median $1.10).
- 1 providers serve it; 0% of comparable models have fewer.
- Its weights are open under the Apache 2.0 license: commercial use allowed.
PaddleOCR VL prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Novita AI | $0.02/1M | $0.02/1M | — | — |
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Paddlepaddle
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- —
- Max output
- —
- Capabilities
- —
- Released
- Oct 16, 2025
- License
- Apache 2.0commercial use allowed
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 959M
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| PaddleOCR VLthis model | $0.02/1M | — | — | 1 |
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PaddleOCR VL FAQ
The lowest price for PaddleOCR VL is $0.02 /1M, at Novita AI.
Yes. PaddleOCR VL's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the Apache 2.0 license.
About 959M, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
1 API providers serve PaddleOCR VL. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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