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/hrus-east-1
Standard_NV4as_v4AzureAMD Radeon Instinct MI2516 GB$0.233/hrwestus2
g6f.xlargeAWSL43 GB$0.237/hrus-east-1
7 more instances can run LightOn OCR 2 1B
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Mistral OCR 4Available
Mistral OCR 4 AnnotAvailable
LightOn OCR 2 1BCurrent
DeepSeek-OCR 2Available
Qianfan OCR Fast66KDeprecated
DeepSeek-OCRAvailable
Document OCRAvailable
Mistral OCR$2.00$3.00Available
OCRAvailable
Prebuilt DocumentAvailable
Prebuilt LayoutAvailable

Model IDs

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