OpenVLM Video - MLVU - Needle QA: leaderboard

MLVU Needle QA accuracy from the OpenCompass OpenVLM Video Leaderboard (VLMEvalKit): multiple-choice questions on long videos (3 minutes to 2 hours) about a short clip inserted into an unrelated long video. One of the seven MLVU multiple-choice tasks; accuracy in percent, higher is better.

Metric: Accuracy (%). Source: huggingface.co. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 37 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1InternVL3-78B84.2#361
2InternVL3-38B80.8#413
3Qwen 2 VL 72B78.9#450
4InternVL2.5-78B78.6#434
5InternVL3-8B77.7#624
6Qwen 2 VL 7B76.1#743
7Qwen2.5-Omni-7B74.9#633
8Gemini 2.0 Flash72.4#351
9Qwen 2.5 VL 7B71.5#641
10MiniCPM-V-2.663.7#827
11InternVL2-8B60.8#813
12Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct56.1#922
13Gemini 1.5 Flash47#620
14Claude 3.5 Sonnet20.8#362

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=openvlm-video-mlvu-needle-qa · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-05.