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It's got the word 'open' everywhere, yet it doesn't show any documentation about self-hosting. Functionally, it might as well be closed-sourced sass using Paddl
by FloatArtifact 2mo ago
It's got the word 'open' everywhere, yet it doesn't show any documentation about self-hosting. Functionally, it might as well be closed-sourced sass using PaddleOCR-VL.
- coulix 2mo agoSpot on..
- saurabhmudradi 2mo agoLol , it's just using an open model underneath to power its OCR & they are just using it to monetize their saas
- TimurKramar 2mo agoThats exactly what it is. Its just an api for PaddleOCR-VL-1.6. I wasn't trying to hide that, im sorry if it came out that way. 'Open' because its just an open-weight model under the hood.
- FloatArtifact 2mo agoI appreciate your reply. So its value really comes down to the cost and not really its openness. You might be thinking, well, it's because it's open that I can have such a low cost, but that's not really what the user thinks when looking at the web page.
- nmatej1 2mo agoI would get it as like - open source models?
- TimurKramar 2mo agoyeah, the value is the price. And its not cheap because its open, its just the cost of running GPUs. Perhaps other providers have similar costs, just 1000% margins on top. this is just pure GPU cost with basically no markup. But being open-weight model, there is no vendor-lockin. if you stop liking the api endpoint, or we were to increase prices, just run the model yourself elsewhere. So in a sense it is open. At least more than openAI or openrouter :)
- greatsage_sh 1mo ago[flagged]