VisReason (Vision-Centric) - Sudoku Solving: leaderboard

Metric: Accuracy (%) on the Sudoku Solving category (structural reasoning: solve visually presented Sudoku variants) of VisReason, answers scored by format (regular-expression match, GPT-5-mini judge for open-ended answers, IoU above 0.5 for boxes), zero-shot with chain-of-thought prompt templates, one per answer format; rows not shaded gray in the paper use explicit reasoning (GPT-5 and Gemini 3 Pro at low reasoning effort); higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around May 2027. 22 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1GPT-5.2 (Thinking)38.2
2Gemini 3 Pro (Preview) (Low)30
3GPT-5 (Low)22.5
4O4 Mini15.5
5GPT-5 Mini (Low)15
6GPT-5 Mini (Medium)12.5
7Qwen 3 VL 8B Instruct9.2
8GPT-5 Nano9
9InternVL3-8B8.5
10Qwen 3 VL 30B A3B (Thinking)8.5
11GPT-5 Mini (High)8
12Qwen 2.5 VL 32B Instruct8
13GPT-4o7.5
14Qwen 3 VL 32B (Thinking)7
15Gemini 2.5 Flash6

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