DiningBench - Calorie Estimation: leaderboard
Metric: Mean absolute percentage error (%) of the estimated calories over the 1,650 DiningBench nutrition-estimation dishes (multi-view restaurant photos; ground truth from merchant labels or ingredient-based estimates cross-checked against USDA FoodData Central); lower is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around March 2027. 29 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini 3 Pro (Preview) | 19.99 |
| 2 | Gemini 3 Flash (Preview) | 20.57 |
| 3 | GPT-5 | 25.14 |
| 4 | O4 Mini | 27.68 |
| 5 | Gemma 3 12B (IT) | 27.95 |
| 6 | Gemini 2.5 Pro | 28.61 |
| 7 | Gemini 2.5 Flash | 30.21 |
| 8 | Qwen 3 VL 8B Instruct | 31.06 |
| 9 | Qwen 3 VL 30B A3B (Thinking) | 32.33 |
| 10 | Qwen 3 VL 30B A3B Instruct | 32.49 |
| 11 | Qwen 2.5 VL 32B Instruct | 32.66 |
| 12 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | 35.01 |
| 13 | Qwen 2.5 VL 72B Instruct | 35.88 |
| 14 | GPT-4.1 | 36.88 |
| 15 | Qwen 3 VL 4B Instruct | 40.37 |
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=diningbench-calorie-estimation · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-07.