HELM Audio - Air Bench Chat Knowledge: leaderboard

The "Air Bench Chat Knowledge" 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. 17 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 2.5 Pro (Preview 05-06)3.41#148
2Gemini 2.5 Flash (Preview 05-20)3.18#214
3Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct3.11#888
4Gemini 2.0 Flash3.04#344
5Gemini 2.0 Flash (Preview)3.02#366
6Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite2.92#453
7Gemini 1.5 Pro (002)2.86#350
8Gemini 1.5 Flash (002)2.82#585
9Qwen2.5-Omni-7B2.67#632
10Gemini 1.5 Flash (001)2.39#580
11Gemini 1.5 Pro (001)2.25#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-knowledge · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-23.