PlantMicro - Stain: leaderboard

Stain identification in PlantMicro (2026), a benchmark of vision-language models on microscopic plant images: accuracy in percent on four-option multiple-choice questions, zero-shot. Higher is better.

Metric: Stain identification accuracy (%); four-option multiple choice on microscopic plant images (light, fluorescence and electron microscopy) with distractors drawn from the same metadata field; zero-shot, unified prompt. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around August 2027. 11 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 2.5 Flash61.45#453
2Gemini 2.5 Pro59.02#266
3GPT-558.46#167
4Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite56.8#958
5GPT-5 Mini52.51#348
6GPT-4o Mini50.03#1623

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=plantmicro-stain · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.