Comparison of distances with parallaxes for a random subset of one million stars, colour-coded by parallax signal-to-noise ratio. The dashed black line indicates the expected inverse parallax-distance relation, ϖ = 1/d. Black contours indicate densities dropping by factors of 3. From top to bottom, the panels show the GSP-Phot distances from gaia_source.distance_gspphot, the geometric distances from Bailer-Jones et al. (2021), the photogeometric distances from Bailer-Jones et al. (2021), and the distances from Anders et al. (2023), respectively.