Can advanced Vision Language Models (VLMs) replace traditional image recognition models? To find out, we benchmarked 16 leading models across three paradigms: traditional CNNs (ResNet, EfficientNet), VLMs ( such as GPT-4.1, Gemini 2.5), and Cloud APIs (AWS, Google, Azure). Mean Average Precision (mAP) served as our primary accuracy metric, supplemented by latency, cost and class-specific performance […]
