Pending benchmarksTracking since Oct 18, 2026
Is Chandra 2.5 state of the art?Pending benchmarks.Announced Oct 15, 2026; no independent results yet.
Datalab's new OCR model, live on its API. The follow-up to Chandra OCR 2.4.
Announced facts
The details so far
- Lab
- Datalab
- Announced
- Oct 15, 2026
- API
- Live
- Open weights
- Unknown
- Focus
- OCR (document text recognition)
- API
- Datalab API, $3 per 1,000 pages
- Weights
- Not stated
- Previous version
- Chandra OCR 2.4
Tags marked unsure are not stated on the lab's own pages.
Next steps
What would let us call it
Verdicts use only independent boards we already track. Two consecutive snapshots are required before any crown.
- Publicly announced with a source
- Usable by the public (API or weights)
- Listed on an independent board we track
- Enough results for a rank in a category
- Holds across two snapshots (crowns only)
Self-reported
What the lab claims
Self-reported. Shown for context; not used in any verdict.
Lab claim: 40% faster and more accurate than the previous version.
Founder claim (Vik Paruchuri, self-reported): 7x fewer script confusions than Chandra OCR 2.4 on a hard test set.
Receipts
Sources
LABDatalab announcement on Xx.com/datalabto/status/2110822718341845484 · Oct 15, 2026LABVik Paruchuri (Datalab founder) on Xx.com/VikParuchuri/status/2111122139373805858 · Oct 16, 2026Tracking continues until an independent board lists it.