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Best AI model for receipt scanning and OCR (2026)

Short answer: In our test of 8 AI models on 79 receipts, bills and invoices, GPT-6.1 Sol scored highest (95.8 of 100) with no severe errors. GPT-6 Luna (91.4) also had no severe errors and was the cheapest. We don't recommend Grok 4.3 (69.2), which made up totals on unreadable receipts.

Scores

Headline score combines field, category and flag accuracy and how often a person was asked to check a bad document, minus 5 points per severe error. Average of 2-3 passes.

ModelScoreHeld-back 20Severe errorsCost
GPT-6.1 Sol95.897.0nonemedium
Gemini 4 Argon93.696.21 of 3 passesmedium
Claude Haiku92.895.51 of 3 passessubscription
GPT-6 Luna91.493.2nonelow
Claude Opus89.795.2both passessubscription
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite85.487.6both passeslow
Grok 4.783.196.1both passeshigh
Grok 4.369.289.1every passmedium

What we found

How we tested

79 documents (59 main plus 20 held back), including 15 degraded photos, 5 receipts that don't add up and 6 fake invoices. Same frozen prompt for every model, scored automatically against an answer key with no AI judge. Full receipts results.

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Scores reflect our tests on the dates shown, not a guarantee. Claude models ran on a Claude subscription, so they have no metered API cost. cost_tier is relative within a task (low/medium/high) from our run spend; 'subscription' = not metered. Tested October 2026 by RealRun (Base Ledger IP LLC).