HELM Audio - Audiocaps: leaderboard

The "Audiocaps" 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
1Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct2.67#881
2Qwen2.5-Omni-7B2.65#634
3Gemini 2.5 Pro (Preview 05-06)2.27#149
4Gemini 2.0 Flash1.98#345
5Gemini 2.0 Flash (Preview)1.98#369
6Gemini 2.5 Flash (Preview 05-20)1.97#217
7Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite1.88#455
8Gemini 1.5 Flash (002)1.42#584
9Gemini 1.5 Pro (002)1.37#352
10Gemini 1.5 Flash (001)1.36#587
11Gemini 1.5 Pro (001)1.35#461

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-audiocaps · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-24.