Moondream3 Preview Release - RefCOCOg: leaderboard
Moondream September 18, 2025 preview release, official overview table; exact printed model labels retained. Unstarred source population only. Release marks GPT5/Claude4Sonnet ChartQA and DocVQA cells as 100-random-question samples; those four cells are withheld, never pooled with full unstarred evaluations. Reasoning effort, API snapshots and precision are not specified and are not inferred from model-card defaults. Moondream uses native detection; frontier baselines use the publisher documented detect-objects prompt. Exact RefCOCO split and grounding scorer are not stated; retain source grounding score without relabeling it F1 or accuracy. Metric: Source benchmark score. Higher is better. Source: https://docs.moondream.ai/
Metric: Source benchmark score. Source: docs.moondream.ai. Saturation forecast: Around March 2027. 4 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini 2.5 Flash | 75.1 | #243 |
| 2 | GPT-5 | 49.8 | #95 |
| 3 | Claude Sonnet 4 | 26.2 | #196 |
No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #5 GPT-6 Astra, #7 Gemini 4 Argon.
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=moondream3-preview-release-refcocog · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-17.