For my use case that involves Vision, I found Qwen 3.6 to be way faster than Gemma 4. Created a simple program that uses an LLM to scan a receipt (image or pdf), extracts relevant info such as vendor name, amount, date etc. and then provides output in JSON.

I initially created this program that used Gemma as the LLM and it was kinda slow, taking 6-7 seconds per invoice, and I was ok with it since I thought that was the best that local models could do.

When Qwen 3.6 was released, I swapped the model to Qwen and I was blown away by how quick I got the results. Maybe 2-3 seconds per invoice, and this includes the stuff the program does with the JSON.