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Unlimited OCR alternatives for the EU.

Unlimited OCR by Baidu is available in the EU. Here are 8 similar tools in the same space, 8 of them verified available.

Available in EUUpdated

At a glance

Unlimited OCR compared with 8 alternatives: EU status, pricing, licence and release date
ToolEU statusPricingOpen sourceReleasedMentions
Unlimited OCR (this)Available in EUOpen sourceUnknown22 Jun 20261
ERNIE 5.5 FlashAvailable in EUOpen sourceUnknown5 Nov 20261
DeepSeek V4.1 FlashAvailable in EUOpen sourceUnknownn/a10
MiniCPM-V 4.6Available in EUOpen sourceNo13 Apr 20261
Ling-3.1-flashAvailable in EUOpen sourceNo13 Oct 20261
MiniMax M3Available in EUOpen sourceNo2 Jun 20264
Inkling SmallAvailable in EUOpen sourceNo27 Jul 20262
LongCat 2.5Available in EUOpen sourceNo4 Nov 20262
Step 3.7 FlashAvailable in EUOpen sourceUnknownn/a1

The alternatives, closest match first

  1. 01E5

    ERNIE 5.5 Flash

    Model · Baidu

    Baidu's open-weights 280B-parameter sparse MoE base model (14B active) with 1M-token context, released pre-post-training.

    By Baidu. 1 mention in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source5 Nov 202638:40
  2. 02DV

    DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

    Model · DeepSeek

    Open-weights multimodal DeepSeek model in the V4 family, offered via API, chat and downloadable weights.

    By DeepSeek. 10 mentions in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source21:35
  3. 03M4

    MiniCPM-V 4.6

    Model · OpenBMB

    Small open-weights multimodal model from OpenBMB for image and video understanding on phones and edge devices.

    By OpenBMB. 1 mention in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source13 Apr 202616:39
  4. 04LI

    Ling-3.1-flash

    Model · inclusionAI

    Open-weights 560B hybrid-linear MoE reasoning model (25B active, 1M context) from inclusionAI, MIT licensed.

    By inclusionAI. 1 mention in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source13 Oct 202637:10
  5. 05MM

    MiniMax M3

    Model · MiniMax

    Open-weights native multimodal MoE model from MiniMax, ~428B parameters (~23B active) with 1M-token context.

    By MiniMax. 4 mentions in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source2 Jun 202621:38
  6. 06IS

    Inkling Small

    Model · Thinking Machines

    Open-weights multimodal MoE model (276B total, 12B active) from Thinking Machines; text, image and audio in, text out.

    By Thinking Machines. 2 mentions in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source27 Jul 202613:37
  7. 07L2

    LongCat 2.5

    Model · Meituan

    Meituan's open-weights 1.6T-parameter multimodal MoE model (48B active) for agentic coding and visual tasks.

    By Meituan. 2 mentions in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source4 Nov 20269:58
  8. 08S3

    Step 3.7 Flash

    Model · StepFun

    Open-weights multimodal flash model from StepFun for agentic tasks involving images, interfaces, web search and long runs.

    By StepFun. 1 mention in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source22:04

Frequently asked

Is Unlimited OCR available in the EU?
Unlimited OCR is available in the EU. Open weights are downloadable from Hugging Face and ModelScope and can be self-hosted anywhere, and no EU restriction appears in the provided material. The license text was not seen, so this is not confirmed.
What is the best alternative to Unlimited OCR in the EU?
ERNIE 5.5 Flash by Baidu is the closest match we track that EU users can use (available in the eu). Baidu's open-weights 280B-parameter sparse MoE base model (14B active) with 1M-token context, released pre-post-training.
How are these alternatives chosen?
We compare tools by meaning (embeddings of their descriptions), keep those in the same category, and show only tools whose EU status is available or limited. Closest match first.

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