HELM VHELM - Vqa Base: leaderboard

The "Vqa Base" subtask of HELM VHELM. Stanford HELM's VHELM project, the holistic evaluation of vision-language models: image-grounded question answering, OCR, chart and diagram reading, spatial reasoning, robustness, bias, fairness and toxicity scenarios scored under one ha...

Metric: PEM. Source: crfm.stanford.edu. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 48 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-4o (2024-05-13)85.9#326
2GPT-4.585.8#276
3Gemini 2.0 Flash (Preview)85.6#366
4O3 (2025-04-16)84.2#123
5Gemini 2.0 Flash83.9#344
6Gemini 1.5 Flash (002)83.8#585
7GPT-4.1 (2025-04-14)83.2#250
8Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite83.2#453
9Gemini 2.5 Pro (Preview 03-25)83#124
10GPT-4.1 Mini82.5#351
11Llama 4 Scout Instruct82.5#542
12GPT-4o (2024-08-06)82.4#335
13GPT-4o (2024-11-20)82.2#378
14Gemini 1.5 Pro (002)82#350
15Claude 3.5 Sonnet (20241022)80.5#291

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

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