SkalskiP(@skalskip92):Astra can do segmentation this is pure VLM result. no expert models (like SAM) were used No other VLM even comes close to this quality - high effort - avg input tokens / image: 2,052 - avg output tokens / image: 4,685 - avg cost / image: $0.255 - median time / image: 78.3 s ↓ GPT-6 Astra segmentation deep dive

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2026.09.07 16:12

Astra can do segmentation this is pure VLM result. no expert models (like SAM) were used No other VLM even comes close to this quality - high effort - avg input tokens / image: 2,052 - avg output tokens / image: 4,685 - avg cost / image: $0.255 - median time / image: 78.3 s ↓ GPT-6 Astra segmentation deep dive