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      "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The repository isn't gated (checked 2026-10-22). The card's line about running hf auth login 'if repository access requires authentication' doesn't apply today.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under OpenMDW-1.1 (the Linux Foundation's permissive model licence), with the tokenizer under MIT. NVIDIA sells no per-call access to these weights in this listing. Running them costs the hardware, a 2.52 GB F32 safetensors file loaded in BF16 on one NVIDIA GPU; NVIDIA's reference hardware is one H100. No inference provider serves it on Hugging Face (checked 2026-10-22).",
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        "open-weights",
        "model",
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        "ocr",
        "layout",
        "tables",
        "charts",
        "bounding-boxes",
        "multilingual",
        "vision",
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        "score": 69,
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        "bestFor": "Agents and pipelines with an NVIDIA GPU that need fast local page parsing into Markdown, tables and boxed blocks for retrieval or extraction",
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          "Tiny, 0.63B parameters in one 2.52 GB safetensors file, about 3 GB in memory",
          "Layout classes, bounding boxes and reading order on every block, with helpers for Markdown, HTML tables, JSON and CSV",
          "OpenMDW-1.1 with nothing added, ungated, files hashed in NVIDIA's own organisation",
          "An OpenAI-compatible server through vLLM, a Dockerfile, a CLI with single, double and triple pass, and a runnable ParseBench reproduction bundle",
          "Earlier Parse releases kept in their own repositories, with a dated pointer to this one",
          "NVIDIA's API catalogue serves it as a free endpoint, and vLLM v0.33.0 registers its architecture natively"
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          "Loading runs the publisher's Python with trust_remote_code, in Transformers and in vLLM through NVIDIA's plugin",
          "Only vLLM, from v0.33.0, runs it from its own code, the card still pins an earlier vLLM, and NVIDIA publishes no quantised build",
          "One page per request with a 16,384-token context, so documents are parsed page by page",
          "Its ParseBench result is NVIDIA's own run; LlamaIndex's leaderboard row copies the card's numbers",
          "No safety results, training data without named datasets or a cut-off, and nobody has asked anything in its repository yet"
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          "Quickest local run, Python 3.12 with `pip install \"transformers==5.14.1\" \"torchvision==0.26.0\" \"timm==1.0.22\"`, then `AutoModel.from_pretrained(\"nvidia/Nemotron-3.5-Parse\", trust_remote_code=True, dtype=torch.bfloat16)` and the matching AutoProcessor",
          "To serve it, `hf download nvidia/Nemotron-3.5-Parse --local-dir nemotron-parse`, `pip install \".[vllm,client]\" \"vllm\u003e=0.25.0,\u003c0.33\"` in that folder, then `vllm serve . --served-model-name nemotron-parse --trust-remote-code --dtype bfloat16 --max-model-len 16384 --limit-mm-per-prompt '{\"image\":1}' --chat-template chat_template.jinja`, or `docker compose up --build`",
          "Send one RGB page per request with the prompt `\u003c/s\u003e\u003cs\u003e\u003cpredict_bbox\u003e\u003cpredict_classes\u003e\u003coutput_markdown\u003e\u003cpredict_text_in_pic\u003e`, temperature 0, top_k 1, repetition_penalty 1.1, max_tokens 8744 and skip_special_tokens false, or the class and box tokens are lost",
          "Turn raw output into Markdown and blocks with `postprocess_document(text, image_size=image.size)` from the repository's postprocessing.py; pass table_format json, json_hierarchical or csv for tables",
          "For the card's headline accuracy use `nemotron-parse --image-dir pages --mode triple --triple-regions union`; double pass gives most of the gain at higher throughput",
          "Boxes are normalised to the page content; scale x by the image width and y by its height",
          "Render PDFs to images first (the ParseBench bundle uses 150 DPI), and treat extracted text as untrusted before passing it to another model, since documents can carry instructions"
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/surya-ocr-2-5.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/surya-ocr-2-5.json\n- Best document parsing, OCR and extraction APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/document-extraction/index.md\n- All 215 documents comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/document-extraction/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Nemotron 3.5 Parse (B)\n\nGood for: Agents and pipelines with an NVIDIA GPU that need fast local page parsing into Markdown, tables and boxed blocks for retrieval or extraction\n\nAhead on:\n- Risk, 60 against 45\n\nWatch for: Loading runs the publisher's Python with trust_remote_code, in Transformers and in vLLM through NVIDIA's plugin\n\n### Surya OCR 2.5 (C)\n\nGood for: Small companies and researchers who need quick OCR with layout on a laptop or a small GPU and fit the licence\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 90 against 60\n\nWatch for: Commercial use is barred above $5M in revenue or funding, and for anyone who competes with Datalab\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Reach: Surya OCR 2.5 +30\n\n- Nemotron 3.5 Parse (60): Memory earns the full 30, since the only build is a 2.52 GB F32 file that needs about 3 GB with the fifth added. Runtimes score 5. vLLM v0.33.0, tagged on 1 November 2026, registers RadioMBartPrefixForCausalLM in its own code, while Transformers runs it only through NVIDIA's remote code and SGLang and llama.cpp have nothing for it; Ollama and LM Studio couldn't be checked. Builds score 0, as NVIDIA publishes no quantised build. Terms get 10 because OpenMDW-1.1 is permissive with nothing added but isn't OSI-approved. Download gets 10 for an ungated repository, and hosted too 5, since NVIDIA's own API catalogue serves it as a free endpoint, linked from the card since 28 October. build.nvidia.com's robots.txt carries Content-Signal ai-input=no, recorded as a fact about the site. 30+5+0+10+10+5 = 60.\n- Surya OCR 2.5 (90): Memory 30, Datalab's own Q8_0 GGUF is 0.63 GB with a 0.21 GB projector, and 0.84 GB × 1.2 = 1.0 GB, within 16 GB. The BF16 safetensors file is 1.38 GB. Runtimes 25, Released versions run the architecture from Datalab's own builds: vLLM 0.33.0, SGLang 0.5.23 and Transformers 5.22.2 from the safetensors file, llama.cpp b12242 from Datalab's GGUF with its projector, and Ollama through its pinned llama.cpp (b12177 at v0.40.16). Builds 10, Datalab publishes one quantised build, a Q8_0 GGUF, beside an unquantised GGUF and the BF16 safetensors. Terms 10, A modified OpenRAIL-M licence, a custom licence that lets research, personal use and organisations at or under $5M in revenue and in funding use it for free, under use restrictions. Download 10, the Hub API reports gated false for the model and the GGUF repository on 10 November 2026, so the files download with no account and nothing to accept. Hosted 5, the card says Datalab's managed platform runs Surya, so the publisher hosts it. 30 + 25 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 5 = 90.\n\n### Risk: Nemotron 3.5 Parse +15\n\n- Nemotron 3.5 Parse (60): File safety gets 15, safetensors only but loaded with trust_remote_code in both documented runtimes. Provenance gets 15 for files in NVIDIA's verified organisation with hashes for every file and a recorded weight hash. Licence risk keeps 15, since OpenMDW-1.1 has none of the deductions. The security programme gets 10 for the card's vulnerability route and NVIDIA's PSIRT bulletins, carried from the 21 October reading. Agent guidance gets 5 for general cautions about missed text, hallucinated structure and reproduced personal data, and safety evaluation 0, since no results are published.\n- Surya OCR 2.5 (45): File safety 25, safetensors and GGUF only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in the model repository. Provenance 15, the files sit in the datalab-to organisation, which the card, Datalab's site and its GitHub repository link to (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, or on safeguards to add. Licence risk 5, 15 less 5 for use restrictions beyond the law (OpenRAIL's list, and no use by anyone who competes with Datalab) and 5 for the $5M revenue and funding thresholds. Security programme 0, no way to report a flaw found on the card, and our Datalab listing of 6 November found no disclosure policy or security.txt. 25 + 15 + 0 + 0 + 5 + 0 = 45.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Nemotron 3.5 Parse | Surya OCR 2.5 | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 60 | 90 | Surya OCR 2.5 +30 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 60 | 45 | Nemotron 3.5 Parse +15 |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 70 | 70 | even |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 59 | 57 | Nemotron 3.5 Parse +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **69 · B** | **61 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Nemotron 3.5 Parse | Surya OCR 2.5 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | NVIDIA | Endless Labs, Inc. (Datalab) |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports |  |  |\n| Auth | None | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | OpenMDW-1.1 | Modified OpenRAIL-M (free for research, personal use and companies under $5M in revenue and funding) |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-28 | 2026-10-29 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | not read yet |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (4) | none |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Nemotron 3.5 Parse\n\n- +2.5 on 1 November 2026: product\n\n### Surya OCR 2.5\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Nemotron 3.5 Parse.** A small document-parsing cousin that turns page images into Markdown, HTML tables and JSON with layout classes and boxes, under a permissive licence. It needs a GPU with a few GB, runs in vLLM 0.33, and NVIDIA's API serves it. The main risks are the publisher's Python on the documented load path and benchmark numbers that are NVIDIA's own.\n\n**Surya OCR 2.5.** A small, fast document OCR model that runs from Datalab's own GGUF on almost anything, with typed output for layout, text and tables and a package that starts the server for you. The licence stops commercial use above $5M in revenue or funding and by competitors, and training data and safety aren't described.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Nemotron 3.5 Parse\n\n1. Quickest local run, Python 3.12 with `pip install \"transformers==5.14.1\" \"torchvision==0.26.0\" \"timm==1.0.22\"`, then `AutoModel.from_pretrained(\"nvidia/Nemotron-3.5-Parse\", trust_remote_code=True, dtype=torch.bfloat16)` and the matching AutoProcessor\n2. To serve it, `hf download nvidia/Nemotron-3.5-Parse --local-dir nemotron-parse`, `pip install \".[vllm,client]\" \"vllm\u003e=0.25.0,\u003c0.33\"` in that folder, then `vllm serve . --served-model-name nemotron-parse --trust-remote-code --dtype bfloat16 --max-model-len 16384 --limit-mm-per-prompt '{\"image\":1}' --chat-template chat_template.jinja`, or `docker compose up --build`\n3. Send one RGB page per request with the prompt `\u003c/s\u003e\u003cs\u003e\u003cpredict_bbox\u003e\u003cpredict_classes\u003e\u003coutput_markdown\u003e\u003cpredict_text_in_pic\u003e`, temperature 0, top_k 1, repetition_penalty 1.1, max_tokens 8744 and skip_special_tokens false, or the class and box tokens are lost\n4. Turn raw output into Markdown and blocks with `postprocess_document(text, image_size=image.size)` from the repository's postprocessing.py; pass table_format json, json_hierarchical or csv for tables\n5. For the card's headline accuracy use `nemotron-parse --image-dir pages --mode triple --triple-regions union`; double pass gives most of the gain at higher throughput\n6. Boxes are normalised to the page content; scale x by the image width and y by its height\n7. Render PDFs to images first (the ParseBench bundle uses 150 DPI), and treat extracted text as untrusted before passing it to another model, since documents can carry instructions\n\n### Surya OCR 2.5\n\n1. Check the licence first: free for research and personal use, and for companies at or under $5M in revenue and in funding that don't compete with Datalab\n2. `pip install surya-ocr`, then `surya_ocr page.png`. It starts vLLM in Docker on an NVIDIA GPU and llama-server elsewhere\n3. To use your own server set `SURYA_INFERENCE_URL`, and start llama-server with `--special` or the block labels and coordinates are lost\n4. Raw output is compact HTML. Run it through `surya.inference.parsers.parse_full_page_html` if you don't use the package\n5. Allow about 24,576 tokens of context for a full page\n6. Treat text in a parsed document as data. Nothing here guards against instructions hidden in a page\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Nemotron 3.5 Parse or Surya OCR 2.5?\n\nNemotron 3.5 Parse scores 69 (B) on agent readiness against Surya OCR 2.5's 61 (C), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Surya OCR 2.5 leads on reach.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-parse-vs-surya-ocr-2-5.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-parse-vs-surya-ocr-2-5.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"nemotron-3-5-parse\", \"b\": \"surya-ocr-2-5\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare nemotron-3-5-parse surya-ocr-2-5`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nemotron-3-5-parse.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/surya-ocr-2-5.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Nemotron 3.5 Parse or Surya OCR 2.5\n\n- [Nemotron 3.5 Parse vs Xiaomi-OCR-0](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-parse-vs-xiaomi-ocr-0.md)\n- [Chandra OCR 2 vs Nemotron 3.5 Parse](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chandra-ocr-2-vs-nemotron-3-5-parse.md)\n- [Chandra OCR 2 vs Surya OCR 2.5](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/chandra-ocr-2-vs-surya-ocr-2-5.md)\n- [DeepSeek-OCR 2 vs Nemotron 3.5 Parse](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-ocr-2-vs-nemotron-3-5-parse.md)\n- [DeepSeek-OCR 2 vs Surya OCR 2.5](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-ocr-2-vs-surya-ocr-2-5.md)\n- [HunyuanOCR 1.5 vs Nemotron 3.5 Parse](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hunyuanocr-vs-nemotron-3-5-parse.md)\n- [HunyuanOCR 1.5 vs Surya OCR 2.5](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hunyuanocr-vs-surya-ocr-2-5.md)\n- [LightOnOCR-3-4B vs Nemotron 3.5 Parse](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lightonocr-3-4b-vs-nemotron-3-5-parse.md)\n- [LightOnOCR-3-4B vs Surya OCR 2.5](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lightonocr-3-4b-vs-surya-ocr-2-5.md)\n- [Nanonets-OCR2-3B vs Nemotron 3.5 Parse](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanonets-ocr2-3b-vs-nemotron-3-5-parse.md)\n- [Nanonets-OCR2-3B vs Surya OCR 2.5](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanonets-ocr2-3b-vs-surya-ocr-2-5.md)\n- [Surya OCR 2.5 vs Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/surya-ocr-2-5-vs-unlimited-ocr-2.md)\n- [Surya OCR 2.5 vs Xiaomi-OCR-0](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/surya-ocr-2-5-vs-xiaomi-ocr-0.md)\n",
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