HELM Audio - Air Bench Chat: leaderboard

The "Air Bench Chat" subtask of HELM Audio. Stanford HELM's audio project (AHELM): audio-language models are given speech and sound clips and scored on transcription, spoken-question answering, reasoning over audio, speaker and emotion attributes, safety and fairness.

Metric: GPT-4o Judge Critique. Source: crfm.stanford.edu. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 15 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 2.0 Pro (Preview 02-05)3.25#305
2Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct3.22#888
3Gemini 2.0 Flash3.2#344
4Gemini 2.0 Flash (Preview)3.19#366
5Gemini 1.5 Pro (002)3.07#350
6Gemini 1.5 Flash (002)3.04#585
7Gemini 1.5 Flash (001)2.77#580
8Gemini 1.5 Pro (001)2.67#446

No result here: #4 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=helm-audio-air-bench-chat · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-23.