K9-Bench: leaderboard

Metric: MCQ accuracy (%; question-weighted mean over the five task categories of K9-Bench, 4,744 five-option questions on 907 real-world dog videos; the free-form CoT answer counts as correct when its Qwen3-Embedding-8B similarity to the gold option exceeds 0.5 and no wrong option is closer; 32 uniformly sampled frames for GPT-4o and the open models, the full video at 1 FPS for Gemini 2.5 Pro and Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around May 2028. 11 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1Gemini 2.5 Pro40.1
2Qwen 3 VL 235B A22B Instruct36.5
3InternVL3.5-8B32.2
4Qwen 3 VL 32B Instruct31.4
5GPT-4o (2024-08-06)30.8
6Qwen 3 VL 32B (Thinking)30.7
7Qwen 3 VL 8B Instruct28.8
8Qwen 3 VL 4B Instruct27.6
9Qwen 3 VL 8B (Thinking)25.3
10Qwen 3 VL 4B (Thinking)22.4

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