# LightOnOCR-3-4B vs Xiaomi-OCR-0 (slim)

> LightOnOCR-3-4B scores 61 (C) to Xiaomi-OCR-0's 59 (C) for ocr. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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LightOnOCR-3-4B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Xiaomi-OCR-0's 59 (C), and leads in 0 of 4 scored categories. Xiaomi-OCR-0 leads on reach, risk and documentation and upkeep. Both do ocr.

- LightOnOCR-3-4B: C 61, rank #73 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lightonocr-3-4b.min.md
- Xiaomi-OCR-0: C 59, rank #101 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/xiaomi-ocr-0.min.md
- LightOnOCR-3-4B, good for Agents that need located, labelled document blocks from a model they can use commercially without conditions
- Xiaomi-OCR-0, good for Agents and pipelines on modest hardware that need local OCR of scanned or photographed pages, receipts and forms into Markdown or JSON Ahead on Reach, 80 against 70; Risk, 65 against 55; Documentation and upkeep, 65 against 51.

| Category | LightOnOCR-3-4B | Xiaomi-OCR-0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 70 | 80 |
| Risk (20%) | 55 | 65 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 70 | 70 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 51 | 65 |

| Fact (where they differ) | LightOnOCR-3-4B | Xiaomi-OCR-0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | LightOn | Xiaomi |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 (card metadata and card text; the Hugging Face repository has no LICENSE file, and the GitHub code repository's LICENSE is the Apache 2.0 text, copyright 2026 Xiaomi Corporation) |
| Last release | 2026-10-09 | 2026-09-29 |

Why the edge:
- Documentation and upkeep, Xiaomi-OCR-0 +14: 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…); Xiaomi-OCR-0 65 (The card covers intended use and parameters and misses limitations, architecture, context length, languages and a cut-off (5).)
- Reach, Xiaomi-OCR-0 +10: 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.); Xiaomi-OCR-0 80 (Memory earns the full 30, since the only build is a 1.75 GB BF16 file that needs about 2.1 GB with the fifth added.)
- Risk, Xiaomi-OCR-0 +10: LightOnOCR-3-4B 55 (File safety 25, one safetensors file, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in the repository.); Xiaomi-OCR-0 65 (File safety gets 25, one safetensors file with no Python in the repository and native loading everywhere.)