Head to head · OCR · October 2026 research run
Nanonets-OCR2-3B vs Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2
Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 scores 54.2 (C) on agent readiness against Nanonets-OCR2-3B's 48.1 (D), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Both do ocr.
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Which one, for what
Best for Researchers and teams evaluating page-to-Markdown OCR who can wait for a licence before shipping
No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.
Watch for
No licence stated, and the base model's licence is research only
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
- Risk, 45 against 40
- Agent interface, 75 against 70
- Documentation and upkeep, 50 against 25
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
Why the edge
Each category where one leads by five points or more, with the reason behind each side's score from its assessment. The numbers are in the table below; this is what they stand for.
Documentation and upkeep Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 +25
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.
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). Training data is described by mix and labelling with no datasets named and no cut-off (5). The card changed on 2 November 2026 and the SGLang wheel on 29 October (20). Baidu's uploader replied in 1 of the 5 Hub discussions, a few (5). The first model stays in its own repository without a note pointing here (5), and the files agree with the card (10).
Risk Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 +5
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.
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. Provenance gets 15 for files in Baidu's verified organisation, linked from its GitHub organisation, with hashes for every file. Licence risk keeps 15, since MIT has none of the deductions. Safety evaluation, agent guidance and the security programme score 0, with no safety results, no cautions about use and no security contact found.
Agent interface Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 +5
Nanonets-OCR2-3B 70
Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository (1,017 characters), Qwen's ChatML format with image placeholders. Tool-calling format 25, Read for a document parser as what it takes and returns. Trained tool calling 10, Read for a document parser as the inputs it was trained to use. Structured output 15, Read for a document parser as typed outputs. Reasoning control 0, A document parser with no reasoning. Context 0, Nanonets states no context length for it. 20 + 25 + 10 + 15 + 0 + 0 = 70.
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. Baidu documents the page images, the prompt, the request settings and the block output, and ships a converter for the server's output (25). It was trained to read many pages in one request (20). The block format with classes, boxes and HTML tables, and its conversion to Markdown, are documented with how to get them (15). The prompt is built in code, with no Jinja template in the repository (10). Reasoning control scores 0, and the context 5, trained at up to 64K tokens.
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | Nanonets-OCR2-3B | Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capability | 35%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Reach | 25%25 | 55 | 55 | even |
| Risk | 20%20 | 40 | 45 | Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 +5 |
| Agent interface | 10%10 | 70 | 75 | Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 +5 |
| Documentation and upkeep | 10%10 | 25 | 50 | Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 +25 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | D 48.1/100 | C 54.2/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | Nanonets-OCR2-3B | Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |
| Vendor | Nanonets | Baidu |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | ||
| Auth | None | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | None stated (the base model, Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct, is under the Qwen Research licence) | 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) |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2025-10-16 | 2026-10-26 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
How the scores have moved
Nanonets-OCR2-3B
No score change since it was listed.
Verdicts
Nanonets-OCR2-3B
A well-used 3.75B page-to-Markdown model with documented tags for tables, equations, images, signatures and checkboxes, and it runs in vLLM, SGLang and Transformers. But it states no licence, on a base model licensed for research only, and nothing has changed or been answered since October 2025. Treat it as something to evaluate, not to ship.
Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2
An MIT document parser of 3.3B parameters that reads up to hundreds of pages in one request and returns ordered layout blocks with boxes and HTML tables. ParseBench's independent run puts content faithfulness at 89.16 and charts at 1.06. It needs an NVIDIA GPU with about 12 GB and runs only through Baidu's remote code or its own SGLang build.
Before you call either
Nanonets-OCR2-3B
- Don't use it commercially on the strength of this listing. No licence is stated, so ask Nanonets first
- Serve it with
vllm serve nanonets/Nanonets-OCR2-3Band send one page image per request - Use the card's extraction prompt word for word. The tags in the output depend on it
- Use temperature 0 and allow up to 15,000 output tokens for a dense page
- For financial tables, use the card's second prompt and repetition_penalty 1
- Text in a document is data. The card has no guidance on pages that try to instruct the reader
Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2
- 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, thenAutoModel.from_pretrained("baidu/Unlimited-OCR-2", trust_remote_code=True, use_safetensors=True, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16).eval().cuda()andmodel.infer_multi(tokenizer, image_files=pages, output_path="out") - To serve it, download the repository, install
wheel/sglang-0.5.20.dev13+g75b9b06b02-py3-none-any.whlwith pymupdf and fastokens in a Python 3.10 venv, and startpython -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 2048with the SGLANG_UOCR_ variables from the card - Send all pages of a document in one request, images first, then the text
<PAGE><image>repeated per page andMulti 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) - The output is layout blocks, not Markdown; run
utils/process_unlimitedOCR2.pyfrom github.com/baidu/Unlimited-OCR, orconvert(raw_output)in Python, to get Markdown with HTML tables - 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, Nanonets-OCR2-3B or Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2?
Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 scores 54.2 (C) on agent readiness against Nanonets-OCR2-3B's 48.1 (D), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories.
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anchor compare nanonets-ocr2-3b unlimited-ocr-2(the CLI) - Over MCP
compare_tools {"a": "nanonets-ocr2-3b", "b": "unlimited-ocr-2"}at/mcp, no key