# Granite 4.2 8B vs Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 (slim)

> Granite 4.2 8B scores 61 (C) to Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2's 54.2 (C) for open-weight models you run yourself. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Granite 4.2 8B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2's 54.2 (C), and leads in every scored category. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- Granite 4.2 8B: C 61, rank #66 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-8b.min.md
- Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2: C 54.2, rank #133 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/unlimited-ocr-2.min.md
- Granite 4.2 8B, good for Agents that want a documented, signed, Apache 2.0 reasoning model with tool calling on a 16 GB machine Ahead on Reach, 95 against 55; Risk, 55 against 45; Agent interface, 85 against 75; Documentation and upkeep, 92 against 50.
- 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 8B | 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 | 50 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Granite 4.2 8B | 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 |

Why the edge:
- Documentation and upkeep, Granite 4.2 8B +42: Granite 4.2 8B 92 (Model card 17, Intended use (best for), limitations (ethical considerations and limitations), architecture, parameters (8B), context length (128K native) and 12…); Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 50 (The card covers intended use and the new attention, and misses limitations, parameters, context length, languages and a cut-off (5).)
- Reach, Granite 4.2 8B +40: Granite 4.2 8B 95 (Memory 30, IBM's own 4-bit MLX build granite-4.2-8b-q4-mlx is 4.95 GB, and 4.95 GB × 1.2 = 5.9 GB, within 8 GB.); Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 55 (Memory earns the full 30, since the only build is 6.69 GB of BF16 weights that need about 8 GB with the fifth added.)
- Risk, Granite 4.2 8B +10: Granite 4.2 8B 55 (File safety 15, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files (25).); Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 45 (File safety gets 15, safetensors only but loaded with trust_remote_code or through a prebuilt SGLang wheel from the repository.)
- Agent interface, Granite 4.2 8B +10: Granite 4.2 8B 85 (Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository, with roles, tools, tool responses, the thinking switch and low effort.); Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 75 (Read for a document parser, the tool-calling, trained tool calling and structured-output lines stand for what it takes and returns.)