SonicBench - Brightness: leaderboard

Metric: Accuracy (%; spectral brightness (NSynth); 100 recognition and 100 comparison two-option questions, greedy decoding, abstentions scored wrong; random 0.50). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around December 2026. 33 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct88
2Qwen2.5-Omni-7B87
3Gemini 2.5 Flash79
4Ming-Lite-Omni-1.552
5SALMONN-7B50
6Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct49
7Voxtral-Mini-3B-250744

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=sonicbench-brightness · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-09-26.