HELM Audio - Corebench: leaderboard

The "Corebench" 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: PEM. Source: crfm.stanford.edu. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 17 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 2.5 Pro (Preview 05-06)81.3#148
2Gemini 1.5 Pro (002)79.9#350
3Gemini 1.5 Flash (002)77.6#585
4Gemini 2.0 Flash75.6#344
5Gemini 2.0 Flash (Preview)75.4#366
6Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite73.7#453
7Gemini 1.5 Flash (001)72.2#580
8Gemini 1.5 Pro (001)65.9#446
9Gemini 2.5 Flash (Preview 05-20)64.4#214
10Qwen2.5-Omni-7B56#632
11Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct23.3#888

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

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