LightOnOCR-3-4B vs Nanonets-OCR2-3B

LightOnOCR-3-4B 51

Model card 11, Intended use, a limitation (instructions other than its two prompts are out of distribution), the architecture (Qwen 3.5's) and the size (4B) are on the card. Training data 0, Nothing on the card about the training data. Last change 15, one commit, the release on 9 October 2026, 32 days before this check and within 90. Responsiveness 10, Of the 2 discussions that aren't pull requests (both opened on 9 October 2026), 1 has a reply from a lightonai member, which is some. Version policy 5, LightOnOCR-2-1B stays in its own repository, and a commit to its card on 8 October 2026 named this model as its new version. File health 10, Config, template and card agree on the Qwen 3.5 classes and on thinking off by default. 11 + 0 + 15 + 10 + 5 + 10 = 51.

Nanonets-OCR2-3B 25

Model card 5, Intended use and the languages are on the card. Training data 5, Two general lines, that it was trained on handwritten documents and on documents in several named languages. Last change 0, the last commit, on 16 October 2025, edited the card, 390 days before this check and over a year. Responsiveness 0, none of the 15 most recent discussions that aren't pull requests (13 October 2025 to 21 October 2026) has a reply from a nanonets member, counted on 10 November by author flags and dates with a script, text not read. Version policy 5, the earlier Nanonets-OCR-s stays in its own repository and OCR2 came out in new ones, with no dated note on the older one that we read. File health 10, Config, template and card agree on the Qwen2.5-VL classes. 5 + 5 + 0 + 0 + 5 + 10 = 25.

LightOnOCR-3-4B 70

Memory 30, the only build from LightOn is the BF16 safetensors file, 9.08 GB, and 9.08 GB × 1.2 = 10.9 GB, within 16 GB. No runtime library has a build of this model. Runtimes 15, the architecture is Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration, which vLLM 0.33.0, SGLang 0.5.23 and Transformers 5.22.2 run from the safetensors file, three at 5 each. Builds 0, LightOn publishes the BF16 weights only. Terms 15, Apache 2.0, OSI-approved, with nothing added, in the card's metadata and licence section. Download 10, the Hub API reports gated false on 10 November 2026, so the files download with no account and nothing to accept. Hosted 0, Hugging Face maps no inference provider to it, and the card names no hosted API for it. 30 + 15 + 0 + 15 + 10 + 0 = 70.

Nanonets-OCR2-3B 55

Memory 30, the only build from Nanonets is the BF16 safetensors files, 7.51 GB, and 7.51 GB × 1.2 = 9.0 GB, within 16 GB. No runtime library has a build. Runtimes 15, the architecture is Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration, which vLLM 0.33.0, SGLang 0.5.23 and Transformers 5.22.2 run from the safetensors files, three at 5 each. Builds 0, Nanonets publishes the BF16 weights only. Terms 0, no licence. Download 10, the Hub API reports gated false on 10 November 2026, so the files download with no account and nothing to accept. Hosted 0, Hugging Face maps no inference provider to it. 30 + 15 + 0 + 0 + 10 + 0 = 55.

LightOnOCR-3-4B 55

File safety 25, one safetensors file, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in the repository. Provenance 15, the files sit in the lightonai organisation, which the Hub marks as verified and LightOn's GitHub repository for the models links to (10), and the Hub gives a SHA-256 for the large files (5). Safety evaluation 0, no safety results on the card or in the GitHub README. Agent guidance 0, Nothing on text in a document that tries to instruct the reader, or on safeguards to add. Licence risk 15, Apache 2.0 has no use policy, field-of-use limit, threshold or change clause, and nothing is added on the card. Security programme 0, no way to report a flaw found on the card or in the GitHub README. lighton.ai couldn't be read for a security.txt. 25 + 15 + 0 + 0 + 15 + 0 = 55.

Nanonets-OCR2-3B 40

File safety 25, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in the repository. Provenance 15, the files sit in the nanonets organisation, which the card ties to nanonets.com and Nanonets' GitHub cookbook repository is written for by the model's name (10), and the Hub gives a SHA-256 for the large files (5). Safety evaluation 0, no safety results on the card. Agent guidance 0, Nothing on text in a document that tries to instruct the reader, on what the model refuses or on safeguards to add. Licence risk 0, With no licence there is nothing to hold Nanonets to. Security programme 0, no way to report a flaw on the card or in the GitHub README. Our Nanonets listing found no security.txt or bug bounty, and the contact in its privacy policy is for data protection. 25 + 15 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 40.