PaddleOCR VL
PaddleOCR VL is worth evaluating for vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating vision
- Workloads that can use a 16k context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- PaddleOCR VL
- Released
- 2025-10-16
- Context
- 16k
- Parameters
- 0.9B
- Architecture
- Encoder-Decoder
- Specialization
- vision
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Pretrained
Cheapest of 1 route · Novita AI
About
PaddleOCR VL is a 0.9B ultra-compact vision-language model from Baidu's PaddlePaddle team for multilingual document parsing. Combines a NaViT-style dynamic resolution visual encoder with ERNIE-4.5-0.3B. Supports 109 languages for recognizing text, tables, formulas, and charts. Achieved 92.56 on OmniDocBench V1.5, surpassing larger models including DeepSeek-OCR. Released October 16, 2025.
PaddleOCR VL is an open-source model. The structured metadata tracks a 16k-token context window and multimodal input. This page tracks provider routes through Novita AI, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.02 input and $0.02 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for PaddleOCR VL yet.
Top use-case fit
Vision
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Novita AI | $0.020 | $0.020 | Serverless |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Vision
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of PaddleOCR VL?
PaddleOCR VL has a context window of 16k tokens.
How much does PaddleOCR VL cost?
PaddleOCR VL is available at $0.02/1M input tokens through Novita AI.
When was PaddleOCR VL released?
PaddleOCR VL was released on 2025-10-16.
Which providers offer PaddleOCR VL?
PaddleOCR VL is available from 1 provider: Novita AI.
Cheapest of 1 route · Novita AI