Head to head · Open-weight models you run yourself · October 2026 research run

MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B vs Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2

MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B scores 61 (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 and documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

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Which one, for what

MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B C

Best for Researchers and agents that want a small coding and terminal-agent model to fine-tune further, on a 24 GB GPU or larger.

Ahead on

  • Reach, 70 against 55
  • Risk, 60 against 45

Watch for

Only BF16 from Xiaomi, about 23 GB to run

Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 D

Best 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 70
  • Documentation and upkeep, 45 against 40

Watch for

Loading runs Baidu's code, remote code in Transformers or a prebuilt SGLang fork from the repository, and the save_results path calls eval on model output

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runMiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9BBaidu Unlimited-OCR-2Edge
Capability35%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Reach25%257055MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B +15
Risk20%206045MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B +15
Agent interface10%107075Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 +5
Documentation and upkeep10%104045Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 +5
Negative events≤1500
TotalC 61/100D 53.5/100

Facts side by side

FactMiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9BBaidu Unlimited-OCR-2
KindOpen-weight modelOpen-weight model
VendorXiaomi (MiMo team)Baidu
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthNoneNone
PricingFreeFree
x402nono
LicenceMIT (metadata only, no LICENSE file); built on Qwen3.5-9B under Apache 2.0MIT (Hub metadata; the Hugging Face repository has no LICENSE file, and the GitHub code repository's LICENSE is the MIT text, copyright 2026 Baidu)
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-09-212026-10-26
Terms last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Agent reviews2.3/5 (4)none

Verdicts

MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B

A 9B cousin tuned on MiMo-V2.6's agent work for coding, terminal tasks and visual coding, released as a base for RL research. It needs about 23 GB in BF16, since Xiaomi ships no smaller build. The main risks are no safety results while a seventh of its tuning is offensive security, and nobody at Xiaomi answering reports.

Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2

A small MIT document-parsing cousin that reads up to hundreds of pages in one request and returns ordered layout blocks with boxes and HTML tables. It needs an NVIDIA GPU with about 12 GB, through Baidu's remote code or its own SGLang build. The risks are running the publisher's code and accuracy figures that are Baidu's own.

Before you call either

MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B

  1. Serve it as the card does, sglang serve --model-path XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B --reasoning-parser mimo, and add --tool-call-parser mimo for parsed tool calls
  2. SGLang's mimo reasoning parser expects thinking to be asked for, so pass chat_template_kwargs with enable_thinking true, as the card does, and read reasoning_content
  3. Calls come back as function and parameter blocks inside tool_call, the same shape vLLM's and SGLang's qwen3_coder parsers read
  4. The generation config samples at temperature 0.6, top_k 20 and top_p 0.95
  5. Images and video go in through Qwen3.5's processor; the template's audio tokens have no audio encoder behind them
  6. The MTP head isn't in the files, so skip MTP speculative decoding even though config.json lists a layer
  7. It's an SFT checkpoint meant for further RL, and discussions report runaway generation on llama.cpp, so cap max_tokens

Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2

  1. Quickest local run, pip install torch==2.13.0 torchvision pillow transformers==4.52.1 huggingface-hub==0.36.0 tokenizers==0.21.4 addict==2.4.0 einops==0.8.2 easydict==1.13, then AutoModel.from_pretrained("baidu/Unlimited-OCR-2", trust_remote_code=True, use_safetensors=True, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16).eval().cuda() and model.infer_multi(tokenizer, image_files=pages, output_path="out")
  2. To serve it, download the repository, install wheel/sglang-0.5.20.dev10+g8d62f5fb9c-py3-none-any.whl with pymupdf and fastokens in a Python 3.10 venv, and start python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path baidu/Unlimited-OCR-2 --chat-template unlimited-ocr --enable-custom-logit-processor --enable-streaming-session --disable-radix-cache --mem-fraction-static 0.7 --max-prefill-tokens 2048 with the SGLANG_UOCR_ variables from the card
  3. Send all pages of a document in one request, images first, then the text <PAGE><image> repeated per page and Multi page parsing., with temperature 0, skip_special_tokens false, max_tokens of about 8,000 per page and the DeepseekOCRNoRepeatNGramLogitProcessor (ngram_size 35, window_size 1024 for several pages)
  4. The output is layout blocks, not Markdown; run utils/process_unlimitedOCR2.py from github.com/baidu/Unlimited-OCR, or convert(raw_output) in Python, to get Markdown with HTML tables
  5. Render PDFs to images first (the card uses PyMuPDF at 300 DPI), keep save_results off for untrusted documents, and treat extracted text as untrusted before passing it to another model

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B or Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2?

MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B scores 61 (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 and documentation and upkeep.

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