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Gemini 4 Argon tops Astra in vision evals for detection and text extraction

Hands-on tests say Argon ranks first for object detection in dense scenes and for extracting small, handwritten, rotated, and table text, at a quarter of Astra's cost under high load.

SkalskiP
@skalskip92Archived 14 days agoOriginally posted 2026.10.14
THREADPosted in 2 parts
  1. Astra dethroned Gemini 4 Argon is the best "vision" model #1 for detection: - tight, precise boxes - dense scenes #1 for text extraction: - small text - handwritten text - complex tables - rotated text 4× cheaper than Astra at high

    This post quotes another post: x.com/geminiapp/status/2110039322229649783

    Gemini 4 Argon tops Astra in vision evals for detection and text extraction (thread part 1)
  2. Single String Extraction #1 for high and low efforts high: - Argon 80.0% - Claude Fable 5 72.2% low: - Argon 78.3% - Gemini 3.7 Flash 74.8% link: https://playground.roboflow.com/evals/ocr

    Gemini 4 Argon tops Astra in vision evals for detection and text extraction (thread part 2)
SkalskiP @skalskip92Originally posted 2026.10.14
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