LightOn OCR-3 is now available on OpenDocRouter, priced at 0.28 / 1m input and 1.40 / 1m output (it is ~$3.19 / 1k pages on ParseBench). W…

LightOn OCR-3 is now available on OpenDocRouter, priced at 0.28 / 1m input and 1.40 / 1m output (it is ~$3.19 / 1k pages on ParseBench). We benchmarked it on ParseBench. It is on the pareto frontier for open-weight OCR models, with similar performance as Gemini 3.8 flash low at ~45% lower price. It is decent at tables, workable for charts, and quite good at grounding. Try it out on OpenDocRouter: https://www.opendocrouter.ai/models For the full list of benchmark results, check out ParseBench: https://www.parsebench.ai/ World-leading document recognition. Beyond text extraction. Introducing LightOnOCR-3, our new family of state-of-the-art AI models for document intelligence. Building on LightOnOCR-2, it recognizes text and handwriting, describes images, extracts data from charts and preserves do…

Source: Jerry Liu (X) | 2026-10-08