VLM Run Gateway: Run GLM-OCR, DeepSeek-OCR-2, dots.mocr with an OpenAI Compatible API

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Open-weight OCR VLMs have advanced significantly over the past year, yet most teams still rely on frontier VLMs for document parsing because researching, evaluating, and deploying the right models remains challenging.

So we built VLM Run Gateway: one OpenAI-compatible endpoint for open-weight OCR and VLM models.

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TL;DR: If you’re using frontier VLMs primarily for OCR/document parsing, open-weight OCR models can be dramatically cheaper and often very accurate. With a one-line change, you can switch between open-weight OCR VLMs (DeepSeek OCR 2, GLM-OCR, dots.mocr, Paddle OCR VL, PP-OCRv6, etc.) and process 100K+ pages for under $60.