TAR-Bench - Multiple-Choice QA: leaderboard

TAR-Bench (2026) evaluates vision-language models on 960 human-curated questions about 80 held-out traffic-anomaly clips, zero-shot and without reasoning mode. The Multiple-Choice QA task covers multiple-choice questions about the anomaly. Score is accuracy, in percent; higher is better.

Metric: Accuracy (%; multiple-choice questions about the anomaly; zero-shot in non-reasoning (direct-answer) mode through VLMEvalKit, mean of 3 runs, on TAR-Bench: 960 human-curated annotations for 80 held-out traffic-anomaly clips from 17 public YouTube videos). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 11 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Qwen 3.5 27B (Non-reasoning)85#359 (Qwen 3.5 27B)
2Qwen 3.5 9B (Non-reasoning)82.5#803 (Qwen 3.5 9B)
3Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)80.4#94
4Gemma 4 31B (IT)77.5#342
5Qwen 3 VL 32B Instruct71.2#585
6Qwen 3 VL 8B Instruct62.9#981

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=tar-bench-multiple-choice-qa · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.