ChronoVision - News Image-Text Matching: leaderboard

News image-text matching on ChronoVision (2026): in 1,500 tests the model picks which of four photos from different years matches the year of a described historical news event, and the score is the percent answered correctly. Higher is better.

Metric: Accuracy (%) on the 1,500 image-text tests: pick which of four photos from different years matches the year of a described historical news event; zero-shot; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 10 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 2.5 Pro84.27#266
2GPT-5.249.73#176
3GLM-4.1V-9B (Thinking)38.27#1060 (GLM-4.1V-9B)
4Qwen 3 VL 235B A22B Instruct33.8#522
5Qwen 3 VL 4B Instruct26.33#1279
6Qwen 3 VL 8B Instruct26.13#981
7Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct12.47#1833

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=chronovision-news-image-text-matching · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.