APUN-Bench (Real-World) - Pun Recognition: leaderboard

Metric: Pun-recognition accuracy (%), deciding whether the audio clip contains a pun, on the real-world set (893 human-recorded clips); temperature 0; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 10 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1MERaLiON-2-10B88.18#567
2Gemini 2.0 Flash87.51#331
3Qwen2.5-Omni-7B71.68#601
4Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct58.64#859
5SALMONN-13B44.86#1237

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #5 GPT-6 Astra, #8 Claude Fable 5.1.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=apun-bench-real-world-pun-recognition · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-11.