Gemini is still my top choice within production software for typical data extraction from unstructured data. Gemini Flash Lite feels like a cheat code for speed, and it's really cheap.

Some other Chinese models are also fast and cheap, but a harder sell in a U.S. production environment.

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MrBuddyCasino an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is really good. Which Chinese models can you recommend?

	▲	SkalskiP an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Hi, I’m the author of this blog. It depends on how strong of a model you need, but in general, Qwen is easily the best among the Chinese models right now. Over the last two weeks, Qwen released two new models. Qwen3.8-Max is totally insane, but it’s only available through the Alibaba Cloud API. I wrote a similar blog covering Qwen3.8-Max: [https://blog.roboflow.com/qwen3-8-max/](https://blog.roboflow.com/qwen3-8-max/) If you’re looking for something you can run locally, Qwen3.8-27B might be a great option. On Friday, I did a quick comparison between Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B: [https://x.com/skalskip92/status/2088411215441621469?s=20](https://x.com/skalskip92/status/2088411215441621469?s=20)
	▲	b345 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I've been using Qwen3.5-9B, hosted locally for PDF data extraction and it performs pretty well when extracting data from tables and infographics

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msp26 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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