VNU-Bench - Visual Comparison: leaderboard

VNU-Bench (Liu et al., University of Florida, 2026) question type in which a multimodal model must compare what each outlet's footage shows and how it supports the outlet's narrative, given a group of YouTube news videos on one event. Each video is given as 4 selected frames and a cleaned transcript cut to 1,000 characters; zero-shot at temperature 0. Accuracy in percent on 4-option multiple-choice questions; higher is better.

Metric: Accuracy (%; question type T3, 4-option multiple choice). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 13 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Claude Sonnet 4.569#244
2Gemini 2.5 Pro66.67#262
3Gemini 2.5 Flash66.67#452
4Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct59#1842
5InternVL3-8B49#1695

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

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