PitchBench - Pitch Identification: leaderboard

Pitch hearing in audio-language models (PitchBench, Liessens Dujardin et al., 2026): naming the pitch of a single sustained tone from 19 timbres over MIDI 29-89 (1,159 stimuli), with synthetic stimuli. A pitch answer counts when any of MIDI number, scientific pitch notation or frequency is right; accuracy in percent, higher is better.

Metric: Accuracy (%; name the pitch of a single sustained tone). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around July 2028. 6 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Qwen 3.5 Omni Plus91.6#237
2Qwen3.5 Omni Flash75.1#548
3Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)14.9#91
4Gemini 3 Flash6#159

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=pitchbench-pitch-identification · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.