SonicBench - Counting: leaderboard

SonicBench (Sun et al., 2026) tests whether audio language models perceive physical properties of sound with two-option questions built from controlled contrasts far above human discrimination thresholds, each attribute asked as recognition of one clip and as comparison of two clips; abstentions count as wrong and random guessing scores 50. This board is the 200 questions on the number of sound events in a scene (PicoAudio); accuracy in percent, higher is better.

Metric: Accuracy (%; number of sound events (PicoAudio); 100 recognition and 100 comparison two-option questions, greedy decoding, abstentions scored wrong; random 0.50). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 33 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B Instruct82#902
2Gemini 2.5 Flash71#452
3Qwen2.5-Omni-7B58#1797
4Voxtral-Mini-3B-250751#3702

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

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