SteelBench: leaderboard

SteelBench (2026) evaluates vision-language models on 1,345 real steel-plant CCTV clips with distant workers, dust, steam, glare and occlusion, using a 25-class action taxonomy and plant safety rules. Per-worker action accuracy against expert-verified labels, in percent, higher is better.

Metric: Action accuracy (%; per-worker primary action label against expert-verified ground truth; 1,345 densely annotated clips of real steel-plant CCTV footage (8 frames at 1080p per clip) from six industrial domains, zero-shot structured prompt with the 25-class action taxonomy, site context, PPE definitions and safety rules; provider-default temperature; failed parses count as wrong). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around 2031. 9 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Qwen 3.5 122B A10B42.6#331
2Gemma 4 31B (IT)39.2#342
3GPT-4o38.8#741
4Claude Opus 4.737.4#79
5GPT-5.435.5#123
6Llama 4 Maverick34.5#1099
7Gemini 2.5 Flash33.6#453
8Gemini 2.5 Pro29.5#266
9Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL27.8#2231

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

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