here are 10 strongest VLMs in my vision benchmark, sorted by cost
Gemini 3.7 Flash is insane
- 2nd in object detection (behind Qwen3.8-Max)
- 2nd in text extraction (behind Gemini 3.5 Flash)
- 2nd in image reasoning (behind Gemini 3.5 Flash)
- over 3x cheaper than Gemini 3.5 Flash
- over 2x cheaper than Qwen3.8-Max
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