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. 211 models tracked.

Top models

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=openvlm-coco-captions · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-09-05.