Originally published on rohitraj.tech
Mistral shipped OCR 4 on June 23, 2026 — model mistral-ocr-latest — and it tops OlmOCRBench at 85.20, handles 170 languages, and costs $4 per 1,000 pages ($2 batch) against AWS Textract\'s $65 per 1,000 for forms-and-tables. Every comparison guide currently ranking still covers OCR 3 or ignores Mistral entirely. This is the builder\'s read: what actually changed in OCR 4, the API call with the new confidence-score gating, an honest accuracy-and-price table against Textract, Google Document AI, and Azure, where each one genuinely wins, when you should NOT pick Mistral, and exactly how I\'d wire it into a RAG ingestion pipeline in production.
Read the full version with code samples, diagrams, and architecture details: Mistral OCR 4 vs AWS Textract vs Google Document AI: The Cheapest Accurate Document API (2026)
More engineering notes: rohitraj.tech/en/notes
