OpenVLM COCO Captions — leaderboard

OpenCompass OpenVLM COCO captioning results: image caption generation on MS COCO validation images, scored with automatic caption similarity metrics such as CIDEr.

Metric: CIDEr. Source: huggingface.co. Status: saturation imminent. 211 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1Gemini 1.0 Pro9.7
2InternVL3-14B2.1
3InternVL3-8B1.7
4InternVL3-78B0.9
5InternVL3-38B0.8
6GPT-4.1 Nano0.4
7InternVL2-8B0.3
8GPT-4.1 Mini0.1
9Grok 2 (1212)0.1
10Gemini 1.5 Flash0.1
11Gemma 3 4B0.1
12Qwen 2 VL 72B0
13Qwen 2 VL 7B0
14Qwen 2 VL 2B0
15Ovis2-8B0

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=openvlm-coco-captions · How the rankings work · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-07-22.