VISTA-Bench - Multimodal Knowledge: leaderboard

Metric: Accuracy (%) on the 400 multimodal knowledge questions (STEM and health, social sciences, humanities and management, with the problem image) with every question rendered as an image of text (LaTeX pipeline, 800-pixel width, standard fonts) and read through the vision encoder; 1,500 manually checked questions drawn from MMBench, SEED-Bench, MMMU and MMLU (1,462 multiple-choice, 38 open); zero-shot with VLMEvalKit default decoding, final answers recovered by a GPT-based extractor; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around January 2027. 30 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)80.5#54
2Qwen 3.5 122B A10B67.8#170
3GLM-4.6V63.3#309
4GLM-4.1V-9B (Thinking)51.3#457 (GLM-4.1V-9B)
5GPT-5.246#105
6Qwen 3 VL 8B Instruct37.8#401
7Qwen 3 VL 30B A3B Instruct35.8#365
8Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct27#643

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #5 GPT-6 Astra, #8 Claude Fable 5.1.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=vista-bench-multimodal-knowledge · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-11.