# Granite 4.2 3B vs Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 (slim)

> Granite 4.2 3B scores 59.8 (C) to Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2's 53.5 (D) for open-weight models you run yourself. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Granite 4.2 3B scores 59.8 (C) on agent readiness against Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2's 53.5 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- Granite 4.2 3B: C 59.8, rank #62 of 113 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b.min.md
- Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2: D 53.5, rank #92 of 113 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/unlimited-ocr-2.min.md
- Granite 4.2 3B, good for Agents on small hardware that want a permissive reasoning model for tool calls and coding, with thinking they can switch off Ahead on Reach, 95 against 55; Risk, 55 against 45; Agent interface, 85 against 75; Documentation and upkeep, 92 against 45.
- Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2, good for Pipelines with an NVIDIA GPU that need long scanned or rendered documents parsed in one pass, with page order, cross-page tables and boxes kept

| Category | Granite 4.2 3B | Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 95 | 55 |
| Risk (20%) | 55 | 45 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 85 | 75 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 92 | 45 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Granite 4.2 3B | Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | IBM | Baidu |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | MIT (Hub metadata; the Hugging Face repository has no LICENSE file, and the GitHub code repository's LICENSE is the MIT text, copyright 2026 Baidu) |
| Last release | 2026-10-20 | 2026-10-26 |
| Agent reviews | 3.8/5 (4) | none |