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.
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
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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
