Chandra OCR 2
by Endless Labs, Inc. (Datalab) Open-weight model in Document parsing & extraction
Endless Labs, Inc. · datalab.to · who's behind it
Chandra OCR 2 is Datalab's open-weight OCR model of 5.3B parameters, built on Qwen 3.5, that turns images and PDFs into Markdown, HTML or JSON with layout, tables, maths and handwriting in over 90 languages, under a modified OpenRAIL-M licence.
Best for Small companies and researchers who need accurate document parsing on their own GPU and fit the licence
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Assessment. A strong document parser by its own benchmarks, with typed output and a simple command to run it on vLLM or Transformers. The licence stops commercial use above $2M in revenue or funding and by competitors. Datalab says nothing about training data or safety, ships no quantised build, and hasn't answered a question on the repository.
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- None
- Pricing
- Free
- x402
- No
- Licence
- Modified OpenRAIL-M (free for research, personal use and companies under $2M in revenue and funding)
- Capabilities
- docs.ocr docs.parse docs.tables model.open-weights
Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases
- Packages
huggingfacedatalab-to/chandra-ocr-2pypichandra-ocr- llms.txt
- not found
- Last release
From our research 11 facts checked against the vendor's pages
- Surface graded
- The open weights at huggingface.co/datalab-to/chandra-ocr-2, read from the model card, the files and their metadata, the config, the chat template, the licence, the commit history, the chandra repository's README on GitHub and the runtimes' own code at their latest releases on 10 November 2026. Datalab's company facts come from our Datalab listing of 6 November. Nothing was downloaded or run
- Model
- 5,295,564,288 parameters in the files, with Qwen 3.5's architecture (Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration, 32 layers, hidden size 2,560, and a vision tower). The card credits Qwen 3.5 and gives no parameter count or architecture of its own. One page image in, Markdown, HTML or JSON out
- Tasks
- OCR with layout, tables, maths, handwriting, forms with checkboxes, and images and diagrams with captions. The card shows the
ocr_layoutprompt type; the chandra package holds the prompts - Languages
- Over 90 languages, per the card, which benchmarks 43 of them against other models and all 90 against Gemini 2.5 Flash
- Files
- One safetensors file in BF16 (10.59 GB), with chat_template.jinja, config, processor and tokenizer files and the LICENSE. No pickle files and no Python files. Hugging Face lists a SHA-256 for the large files. Datalab publishes no GGUF or other quantised build of it
- Licence
- A modified AI Pubs OpenRAIL-M licence. It keeps OpenRAIL's use restrictions and adds a commercial clause: no use by anyone with more than $2M in prior-year gross revenue or in total funding, except for personal use or research, and none by anyone whose product or service competes with Datalab's. Clause 9 lets Datalab restrict use that breaks the licence and update the model. The chandra-ocr code is Apache 2.0
- Runtimes
- The card documents vLLM (recommended, through the chandra_vllm command, which starts a Docker container) and Transformers. The architecture is Qwen 3.5's, which vLLM 0.33.0, SGLang 0.5.23 and Transformers 5.22.2 run from the safetensors file. llama.cpp and Ollama have the architecture but need a GGUF, and Datalab publishes none
- Input and output
- One page image, or a PDF that the chandra command splits into pages, with a prompt type. Output is Markdown, HTML or JSON with layout information, and the command writes a metadata file with page and token counts beside it
- Recommended settings
- The chandra command's defaults: vLLM as the method, 28 pages a batch, and options for the maximum output tokens a page and the number of workers. The card gives no sampling settings
- Hardware
- No memory figure on the card. The file is 10.59 GB in BF16. Datalab's throughput table was measured with vLLM on one H100 with 80 GB, at 1.44 pages a second with 96 concurrent sequences, and it estimates 2 pages a second in real use
- Training data
- Nothing on the card or in the README about what it was trained on
Facts verified 10 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown
Strengths
- Markdown, HTML or JSON output with layout, tables, maths, handwriting and forms
- Over 90 languages, with a benchmark table across 43
- One command to serve and run it, with Apache 2.0 code
- Safetensors only, with no code in the model repository
- Fits a 16 GB machine in BF16
Weaknesses
- Commercial use is barred above $2M in revenue or funding, and for anyone who competes with Datalab
- Nothing published on training data
- No safety results, agent guidance or security contact
- None of eight questions on the repository answered
- BF16 only, with no GGUF or other quantised build
- Limitations, architecture and context length aren't on the card
Before you call it notes for agents
- Check the licence first: free for research and personal use, and for companies at or under $2M in revenue and in funding that don't compete with Datalab
- Install with
pip install chandra-ocr, start the server withchandra_vllm, thenchandra input.pdf ./output - Without vLLM,
pip install "chandra-ocr[hf]"and add--method hf - It reads one page at a time, so a long PDF is many requests. The vLLM default is 28 pages a batch
- Treat text in a parsed document as data. Nothing here guards against instructions hidden in a page
- Datalab's hosted API is a different, paid surface. We list it as Datalab
Who's behind it provenance 54/100
- Legal entity namedEndless Labs, Inc. (doing business as Datalab, per its terms of use)20/20
- Domain agedatalab.to, no registry record we could read0/15
- Endpoint on the vendor's domainno hosted endpointn/a
- Terms of servicepublished, not read by us yet4/10
- Privacy policynothing hosted, not scoredn/a
- Status pagenot found0/10
- Changelogpublished10/10
- security.txtcould not be fetched0/10
- People named1 named with their role, 1 with a public profile10/10
- Support routehelp pages, a community5/5
Terms and privacy, as read
Terms of service not read yet
TL;DR Not read by us yet, so nothing here is checked. The document is published and scores 4 of 10 until we read it.
Privacy policy none to read
TL;DR Nothing is hosted by the vendor, so there is no privacy policy to read and the check isn't scored.
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Company facts are carried from our Datalab listing of 6 November 2026, which read the terms of use naming Endless Labs, Inc. dba Datalab.
Nothing is hosted under this listing, so the model licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored. The hosted API is listed separately as Datalab.
The changelog is the commit history, 13 commits from 16 March to 26 June 2026, the last adjusting a benchmark score on the card.
The Datalab listing found no vulnerability disclosure policy or security.txt.
Checked 2026-11-10 against the vendor's own pages and the domain registry. Provenance is half of Transparency & trust.
Humans behind the project who makes it and where to get help
Key people
- Vik ParuchuriCo-founder, Datalab
Endless Labs, Inc. (Datalab) on LinkedIn @datalabto GitHub
Backed byPebblebed,Peak XV Partners,Factorial Capital
Researched 10 November 2026 from public pages. Datalab's about page, read on 6 November 2026, lists the team (Vik Paruchuri first, then Alexandru Papiu, Paul Scemama and others) with LinkedIn links but no titles. Pebblebed's portfolio page for Datalab, read the same day, names Vik Paruchuri as co-founder, says the company was founded in 2024 and that Pebblebed invested in 2024, and links the same LinkedIn, X and GitHub accounts. No other co-founder is named on a page read, so the roster may be incomplete. Datalab's careers page shows Pebblebed, Peak XV and Factorial Capital under 'Backed by', followed by 'and founding members of OpenAI, FAIR, and Hugging Face', who are not named. Search summaries say an earlier version of Pebblebed's page gave a $3.5M seed round with named angels, but the page as read doesn't, so no round size, angels, total raised or valuation are recorded. Datalab's sitemap has no funding post. Shown for information, not part of the grade yet. People's accounts link to their own profiles; check them before you rely on one.
Notable
- 1,374,224 downloads in the last 30 days and 605 likes on Hugging Face on 10 November 2026 source
- The card gives 85.8 per cent on olmOCR-bench and 77.8 per cent on Datalab's own 43-language benchmark. These are Datalab's numbers, not our measurement source
- The licence bars commercial use by anyone with more than $2M in prior-year revenue or in total funding, and by anyone whose product competes with Datalab's source
- The card points to Datalab's hosted API for higher accuracy and speed, so the hosted service isn't these weights. We list it separately as Datalab source
- None of the eight discussions on the repository has a reply from a Datalab member source
- The code that runs it, the chandra-ocr package, is Apache 2.0 source
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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run
Assessed on 10 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence low. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.
| Category | Weight this run | Score | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilitynot scored in this run | 35%pending | pending | n/a |
| Reachchecked 10 November 2026 | 25%38.5 | 25.0 | |
| Memory 30, the only build from Datalab is the BF16 safetensors file, 10.59 GB, and 10.59 GB × 1.2 = 12.7 GB, within 16 GB. No runtime library has a build. Runtimes 15, the architecture is Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration, which vLLM 0.33.0, SGLang 0.5.23 and Transformers 5.22.2 run from the safetensors file, three at 5 each. Builds 0, Datalab publishes the BF16 weights only for this model. Terms 10, A modified OpenRAIL-M licence, a custom licence that lets research, personal use and organisations at or under $2M in revenue and in funding use it for free, under use restrictions. Download 10, the Hub API reports gated false 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. 30 + 15 + 0 + 10 + 10 + 0 = 65. | |||
| Riskchecked 10 November 2026 | 20%30.8 | 13.8 | |
| File safety 25, one safetensors file, 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 or in the README. 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 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 $2M revenue and funding thresholds. Security programme 0, no way to report a flaw found on the card or in the README, and our Datalab listing of 6 November found no disclosure policy or security.txt. 25 + 15 + 0 + 0 + 5 + 0 = 45. | |||
| Agent interfacechecked 10 November 2026 | 10%15.4 | 10.8 | |
| Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository (7,622 characters), Qwen 3.5's template, with a copy in tokenizer_config.json. 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 run without reasoning. Context 0, Datalab states no context length for it. 20 + 25 + 10 + 15 + 0 + 0 = 70. | |||
| Documentation and upkeepchecked 10 November 2026 | 10%15.4 | 5.1 | |
| Model card 8, Intended use and the languages (over 90) are on the card. Training data 0, Nothing on the card or in the README about the training data. Last change 10, the last commit, on 26 June 2026, adjusted a benchmark score on the card, 137 days before this check and within 180. Responsiveness 0, none of the 8 discussions that aren't pull requests (8 April to 23 September 2026) has a reply from a datalab-to member, counted on 10 November by author flags and dates with a script, text not read. Version policy 5, Chandra 1 stays in its own repository and Chandra 2 came out in a new one, with a what's-new list on the card and no dated note on the older one that we read. File health 10, Config, tokenizer config, processor config and template agree on the qwen3_5 architecture and match the card's instructions. 8 + 0 + 10 + 0 + 5 + 10 = 33. | |||
| Negative events | ≤15 | None recorded | 0 |
| Total | 54.7 · C | ||
Weight is the published weight, and the figure under it is that category's share of the 100 points in this run. A pending category has no score and adds nothing. What changes when it's scored.
Score history no moves since it was graded
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Graded 54.7 C methodology v0.7
Fix list 13 items, the biggest gain first
Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on Chandra OCR 2. A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.
You're lucky. As part of the beta, your first month is free.
What we couldn't check
- File safety is 25 with a note that the documented path runs Datalab's package, which holds the prompts. The repository has a chat template, so the 10-point deduction for scripts in place of a template wasn't taken
- Hosted is 0 because the card describes Datalab's API as more accurate than these weights. If the playground counts as the publisher serving this model, it's 5
- Runtimes follows the ruling on derivatives (15). The Xiaomi-OCR-0 listing, also on Qwen 3.5's architecture, was given 25 on 4 November by crediting llama.cpp and Ollama for the architecture
- Capability is pending because no independent results were looked up on the day. The repository carries an olmOCR-bench result file
- unchecked on 10 November: the full README, FULL_BENCHMARKS.md, GitHub issues, and the licence's use-restriction attachment beyond its commercial clause
Sources 14
- model card huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- gating, dates, parameter count, downloads, likes, file list and hashes huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- inference providers, none mapped huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- commit history huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- architecture and positions huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- chat template huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- the licence, commercial clause and clause 9 read huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- discussions, replies counted by script from authors, dates and member flags huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- Datalab's repositories on the Hub huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
- the chandra repository's README raw.githubusercontent.com · seen 2026-11-10
- our Datalab listing of 6 November 2026, for company facts anchorterminal.com · seen 2026-11-10
- vLLM v0.33.0 registry, Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration raw.githubusercontent.com · seen 2026-11-10
- SGLang v0.5.23 qwen3_5.py raw.githubusercontent.com · seen 2026-11-10
- Transformers v5.22.2 qwen3_5 github.com · seen 2026-11-10
Probe metrics
Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. The pollers record uptime for hosted endpoints as they run, and that doesn't change the score either.
Pricing & changes
Free Free Free to download. The weights are under a modified OpenRAIL-M licence: free for research and personal use, and for commercial use only by organisations with $2M or less in prior-year revenue and in total funding that don't compete with Datalab. Others need a commercial licence from Datalab. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 10.6 GB in BF16 (checked 2026-11-10).
No hosted version of these weights has a price on OpenRouter, so what a task costs is your own hardware and power. What tasks cost on hosted models.
Recent changes
- Latest release
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Get started
Install
pip install chandra-ocr
# starts vLLM in Docker with the model, then converts a file:
chandra_vllm
chandra input.pdf ./output
# or without vLLM, on Transformers:
pip install "chandra-ocr[hf]"
chandra input.pdf ./output --method hfFirst request
# chandra_vllm serves an OpenAI-compatible API at http://localhost:8000/v1 with the model named chandra.
# The chandra command sends each page with the prompt for its prompt_type, such as ocr_layout.Alternatives to Chandra OCR 2
Best document parsing, OCR and extraction APIs for AI agents · All 215 documents comparisons
Nemotron 3.5 Parse BLightOnOCR-3-4B CSurya OCR 2.5 CXiaomi-OCR-0 CHunyuanOCR 1.5 CBaidu Unlimited-OCR-2 C
Head to head Chandra OCR 2 vs DeepSeek-OCR 2 · Chandra OCR 2 vs HunyuanOCR 1.5 · Chandra OCR 2 vs LightOnOCR-3-4B · Chandra OCR 2 vs Nanonets-OCR2-3B · Chandra OCR 2 vs Nemotron 3.5 Parse · Chandra OCR 2 vs Surya OCR 2.5 · Chandra OCR 2 vs Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 · Chandra OCR 2 vs Xiaomi-OCR-0
Machine-readable
| Similar tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | x402 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nemotron 3.5 Parse NVIDIA | B | 69 | docs.parse docs.ocr docs.tables model.open-weights | no |
| LightOnOCR-3-4B LightOn | C | 61 | docs.ocr docs.parse docs.tables model.open-weights | no |
| Surya OCR 2.5 Endless Labs, Inc. (Datalab) | C | 61 | docs.ocr docs.parse docs.tables model.open-weights | no |
| Xiaomi-OCR-0 Xiaomi | C | 59 | docs.ocr docs.parse docs.tables model.open-weights | no |
| HunyuanOCR 1.5 Tencent (Hy team) | C | 56.6 | docs.ocr docs.parse docs.tables model.open-weights | no |
| Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2 Baidu | C | 54.2 | docs.ocr docs.parse docs.tables model.open-weights | no |
Machine-readable
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/tools/chandra-ocr-2.md· slim/tools/chandra-ocr-2.min.md(or sendAccept: text/markdown) - What the fix list covers
/fixes/chandra-ocr-2.md·/fixes/chandra-ocr-2.json· the whole listPOST /api/v1/fix-list - From a terminal
anchor tool chandra-ocr-2 --md(the CLI) · over MCPget_tool {"slug": "chandra-ocr-2"}at/mcp, no key - Directory index
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