DiffCap-Bench - Hallucination Rate: leaderboard

Metric: Hallucination rate (hallucinated difference items per 100 ground-truth differences, sample-level mean; can exceed 100) on the 1,075 image pairs of DiffCap-Bench (6,713 human-verified difference items), one fixed captioning prompt, open models at temperature 0.1 and proprietary models at their defaults, a Gemini 2.5 Pro judge matching each described difference against the key difference list; lower is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around May 2027. 16 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1Gemini 3 Pro2.6
2Grok 4.2010.5
3GPT-5.212
4Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)18.9
5Qwen 3 VL 8B (Thinking)20.2
6Step3 VL 10B22.8
7Qwen 3 VL 32B (Thinking)25.8
8Qwen 3 VL 8B Instruct26.1
9Qwen 3 VL 32B Instruct31.3
10Kimi K2.5 (Non-reasoning)37.7

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=diffcap-bench-hallucination-rate · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-07.