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Best Document AI Models in 2026

This reporting page focuses on document workflows: OCR, office artifacts, long documents, and enterprise-style grounded reasoning over PDFs, slides, tables, and screenshots.

This page ranks models using only sourced document AI and OCR benchmarks in the reporting family.

Bottom line: Document AI benchmarks (OfficeQA Pro, OmniDocBench, CC-OCR) are newer and coverage is still building. Check the multimodal leaderboard for broader document understanding.

How to choose

Full Rankings (1 models)

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Alibaba·Open Weight·262K

86.5

sourced avg

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Key Takeaways

The top model on this sourced reporting-family slice is Qwen3.6-35B-A3B by Alibaba with an average of 86.5.

The best open-weight model is Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at position #1.

1 models are listed with sourced benchmark coverage in this reporting family.

Score in Context

What these scores mean

This is a reporting family ranking, not a weighted category. It averages sourced document AI and OCR benchmarks to give a focused view of this capability.

Known limitations

Models must have sourced results on at least a quarter of the benchmarks in this family to be included. Coverage varies — a model with 2 benchmark scores is less reliable than one with 5.

Last updated: April 16, 2026

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