MemeBench: leaderboard
MemeBench (2026) asks vision-language models to explain 1,253 Chinese and English memes about anime, comics, games and online subcultures from the image alone, checked against VIKR checklists of visual clues, identity links, knowledge units and reasoning under two judges. Score is the success rate, the share of memes whose explanation passes all four checklists, in percent; higher is better.
Metric: Success rate (%; visual, identity, knowledge and reasoning checklists all passed) on 1,253 Chinese and English memes centred on anime, comics, games and online subcultures, explained closed-book from the image; scored against VIKR checklists under the intersection of Gemini-3.1-Pro and GPT-5.1 judges, unscored responses counted as failures. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 26 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview) | 60.3 | #94 |
| 2 | Gemini 3 Flash | 53.7 | #164 |
| 3 | GPT-5.6 Sol | 40.9 | #30 |
| 4 | Claude Opus 5 | 38.3 | #22 |
| 5 | Kimi K2.5 | 37.9 | #256 |
| 6 | Qwen 3.6 Plus | 28.4 | #222 |
| 7 | GPT-5.6 Terra | 27.8 | #62 |
| 8 | GPT-5.6 Luna | 18 | #121 |
| 9 | Claude Sonnet 5 | 17.8 | #111 |
| 10 | Qwen 3 VL 235B A22B Instruct | 14.5 | #522 |
| 11 | MiMo-V2.5 | 13.7 | #354 |
| 12 | Qwen 3.6 Flash | 12.3 | #424 |
| 13 | Qwen 3 VL 235B A22B (Thinking) | 12 | #451 |
| 14 | Qwen 3 VL 32B Instruct | 8.4 | #585 |
| 15 | Qwen 3 VL 32B (Thinking) | 7.7 | #559 |
No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=memebench · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.