Comment by gostsamo

currently working on a personal project where part of the pipeline is recognizing lots of images. the employer let me use gemini for personal use, but wasting large amount of tokens on gemini3 pro ocr limited my work. flash gives worse result, but there are ways to retry. good for development, but long term, simpler parts of a pipeline could be dedicated to a local model. I can imagine many other use cases where you want large volume of low difficulty tasks at close to zero cost.