3.8 flash would be the model to test, it's vision capabilities are excellent (on par with Astra) while also being incredibly fast.
There isn't any model out there even close to as good as Astra at visual/spatial reasoning.
Gemini models punch way above their weight in vision tasks<a href="https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/mmmu-pro" rel="nofollow">https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/mmmu-pro
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