LightOn OCR 2 1B is LightOn's image to text model. A compact 1B-parameter multimodal OCR model from LightOn designed for image-to-text extraction tasks.
Specifications
Canonical IDlighton-ocr-2-1b
TypeImage to Text
StatusActive
CreatorLightOnLightOn
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters1B

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host LightOn OCR 2 1B, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 2 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.

All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
Instance
Cloud
GPU
VRAM
Price
Cheapest region
g6f.largeAWSL43 GB$0.202/hr
Standard_NV4as_v4AzureAMD Radeon Instinct MI2516 GB$0.233/hr
g6f.xlargeAWSL43 GB$0.237/hr
7 more instances can run LightOn OCR 2 1B
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Mistral OCR 4————Available
Mistral OCR 4 Annot————Available
LightOn OCR 2 1B————Current
DeepSeek-OCR 2—8K$0.030$0.030Available
Qianfan OCR Fast66K——Deprecated
DeepSeek-OCR————Available
Document OCR————Available
Mistral OCR————Deprecated
OCR————Available
Prebuilt Document————Available
Prebuilt Layout————Available

Model IDs

huggingface-vlm-lightonai-lightonocr-2-1b
lighton-ocr-2-1b