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

North Mini Code 1.0 vs Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2

North Mini Code 1.0 scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2's 54.2 (C), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 leads on documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

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Which one, for what

North Mini Code 1.0 C

Best for Developers who want a coding agent on their own GPU with a permissive licence

Ahead on

  • Reach, 85 against 55
  • Risk, 60 against 45
  • Agent interface, 85 against 75

Watch for

No limitations, safety results, languages or data description on the card

Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 C

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

  • Documentation and upkeep, 50 against 36

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.

Reach North Mini Code 1.0 +30

North Mini Code 1.0 85

Memory 25, the smallest build from Cohere is the w4a16 repository, 19.38 GB, and 19.38 GB × 1.2 = 23.3 GB, within 24 GB. Unsloth's GGUF isn't read for this line. Runtimes 20, Released vLLM 0.33.0, SGLang 0.5.23 and Transformers 5.22.2 have the cohere2_moe model, and llama.cpp b12242 has the cohere2moe architecture. Builds 15, Quantised builds from Cohere at two precisions, FP8 and 4-bit weights (w4a16), each in its own repository. Terms 15, Apache 2.0 in the metadata and on the card, an OSI licence with nothing added. Download 10, the Hub API reports gated false for the model and its builds 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. 25 + 20 + 15 + 15 + 10 + 0 = 85.

Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 55

Memory earns the full 30, since the only build is 6.69 GB of BF16 weights that need about 8 GB with the fifth added. Runtimes score 0. Released vLLM 0.33.0, SGLang 0.5.23 and Transformers 5.22.1 know the first Unlimited-OCR but not the sparse attention this one adds, Baidu's own routes are remote code in Transformers and a customised SGLang wheel, llama.cpp b12111 has nothing for it, so Ollama has nothing either, and LM Studio couldn't be checked. Builds score 0, as Baidu publishes no quantised build (16 exist, all by others). Terms get 15 for MIT with nothing added. Download gets 10 for an ungated repository, and hosted too 0, with no inference provider mapped and the card's Baidu Cloud line unconfirmed.

Risk North Mini Code 1.0 +15

North Mini Code 1.0 60

File safety 25, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in the repository. Provenance 15, the files sit in Cohere's verified CohereLabs organisation, which cohere.com links to per our other Cohere listings (10). Safety evaluation 0, no safety results on the card. Agent guidance 0, the card has no limitations or safety section, and nothing on prompt injection, instruction priority or what the model refuses. Licence risk 15, Apache 2.0 has no use policy, threshold or change clause. Security programme 5, Cohere's trust centre holds a responsible disclosure policy with a bug bounty, as recorded on our Cohere listings (5). 25 + 15 + 0 + 0 + 15 + 5 = 60.

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.

Documentation and upkeep Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 +14

North Mini Code 1.0 36

Model card 11, Intended use, the architecture, the parameters and the context are on the card. Training data 0, the card gives the training method and nothing about the data. Last change 10, the main repository last changed on 15 June 2026 (outdated chat templates removed), 148 days before this check, and the draft model's repository on 29 July, 104 days. Responsiveness 0, none of the 11 most recent discussions that aren't pull requests (7 June to 6 November 2026) has a reply from a CohereLabs member, counted on 10 November by author flags and dates with a script, text not read. Version policy 5, A first release, with each build in its own repository. File health 10, Config, template and card agree on the architecture, and the June commit that removed broken templates says so. 11 + 0 + 10 + 0 + 5 + 10 = 36.

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).

Agent interface North Mini Code 1.0 +10

North Mini Code 1.0 85

Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository (12,397 characters). Tool-calling format 25, the card documents how tools are declared (JSON schema through the chat template), how the call and its thinking go back into the history and how results are appended, and names the cohere_command4 tool-call parser for vLLM, which released vLLM has. Trained tool calling 20, the card says the model was specifically trained with tool-use capabilities for agentic coding, with reinforcement learning on verifiable tasks, and the template renders every call in a turn with thinking between them. Structured output 0, JSON schema is for describing tools. Reasoning control 10, the template has a reasoning_effort setting, and the card names the cohere_command4 reasoning parser, which returns thinking apart from the answer. Context 10, 256K tokens per the card, with 64K of output, and 500,000 positions in config.json. 20 + 25 + 20 + 0 + 10 + 10 = 85.

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

CategoryWeight this runNorth Mini Code 1.0Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2Edge
Capability35%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Reach25%258555North Mini Code 1.0 +30
Risk20%206045North Mini Code 1.0 +15
Agent interface10%108575North Mini Code 1.0 +10
Documentation and upkeep10%103650Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 +14
Negative events≤1500
TotalC 61/100C 54.2/100

Facts side by side

FactNorth Mini Code 1.0Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2
KindOpen-weight modelOpen-weight model
VendorCohereBaidu
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthNoneNone
PricingFreeFree
x402nono
LicenceApache-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 release2026-07-292026-10-26
Terms last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedno document linked

How the scores have moved

Verdicts

North Mini Code 1.0

A coding agent model that fits one 24 GB GPU at 4 bits, trained for tool use, with a 256K context, Apache 2.0 and four released runtimes. It's a research release and reads like one: nothing on limitations, safety or data, the card's run instructions are out of date, and Cohere hasn't answered a question on the repository.

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

North Mini Code 1.0

  1. Serve it with vLLM 0.33.0 or later and --tool-call-parser cohere_command4 --reasoning-parser cohere_command4 --enable-auto-tool-choice, with cohere_melody installed
  2. Pass the model's thinking back with its tool calls on every turn. The card says results drop without it
  3. Describe tools in JSON schema and append tool results as a dictionary with the tool role
  4. Use temperature 1.0 and top_p 0.95
  5. For llama.cpp the GGUF files are Unsloth's or bartowski's conversions, not Cohere's
  6. It's text only. Don't send images

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.dev13+g75b9b06b02-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, North Mini Code 1.0 or Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2?

North Mini Code 1.0 scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2's 54.2 (C), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 leads on documentation and upkeep.

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