# Kronos vs Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 (slim)

> Kronos scores 55.2 (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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Kronos scores 55.2 (C) on agent readiness against Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2's 53.5 (D), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 leads on agent interface. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- Kronos: C 55.2, rank #87 of 113 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kronos.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
- Kronos, good for Agents that need a quick local forecast or synthetic sample of a candlestick series on modest hardware, for research or as one input among others. Ahead on Risk, 50 against 45; Documentation and upkeep, 61 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 Ahead on Agent interface, 75 against 60.

| Category | Kronos | Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 55 | 55 |
| Risk (20%) | 50 | 45 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 60 | 75 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 61 | 45 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Kronos | Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Yu Shi (shiyu-coder, NeoQuasar), Tsinghua University | Baidu |
| Licence | MIT | 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 | 2026-04-13 | 2026-10-26 |
| Popularity | 43k stars | none |