Mistral Launches OCR 4 With 85.20 Benchmark Score, 8x Cost Reduction, and 170-Language Support
Summary
Mistral launches OCR 4, a powerful document recognition model scoring 85.20 on OlmOCRBench, supporting 170 languages, delivering up to 8x cost reduction and 17x lower latency than competitors, and available now via API at just $4 per 1,000 pages.
Key Points
- Mistral OCR 4 launches today with bounding boxes, block classification, and inline confidence scores, supporting 170 languages across 10 language groups and deployable in a single self-hosted container for enterprise compliance needs.
- The model achieves a top score of 85.20 on OlmOCRBench and wins 72% of head-to-head human preference evaluations against leading OCR systems, with real-world users reporting up to 8x lower cost and 17x lower latency compared to incumbent providers.
- OCR 4 is available now via API at $4 per 1,000 pages (or $2 with Batch API) through Mistral Studio, Amazon SageMaker, and Microsoft Foundry, and integrates directly with Mistral's Search Toolkit to power RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and enterprise document intelligence.