Vision Model Leaderboard: Best Vision-Language Models
Ranked by LMArena Vision Arena scores: users upload an image, ask a question, and vote between two anonymous models’ answers.
- Top open-weightGemma 4 26B A4B1297Google
In LMArena Vision Arena data published Oct 19, 2026, Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 (High) ranks #1 of 167 models with 1325 (14,714 votes).
Full leaderboard · Captioning
9 modelsSorted by LMArena score by default; ± is half the 95% confidence interval. Category columns show the model’s score on that sub-board; – means no score.
| # | Model | LMArena · Captioning | License | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score↓ | Rank | Votes | |||
| 1 | Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogleOpen |
1297±70 | 4 | 63 | Apache 2.0 |
| 2 |  Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-InstructAlibabaOpen |
1281±45 | 5 | 146 | Apache 2.0 |
| 3 |  Kimi K2.5 (Thinking)Moonshot AIOpen |
1257±48 | 11 | 125 | Modified MIT |
| 4 | Qwen3.5-397B-A17BAlibabaOpen |
1230±57 | 15 | 78 | Apache 2.0 |
| 5 | Gemma 4 31BGoogleOpen |
1218±54 | 17 | 106 | Apache 2.0 |
| 6 | Qwen3.5-27BAlibabaOpen |
1170±81 | 27 | 61 | Apache 2.0 |
| 7 |  Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct (2503)Mistral AIOpen |
1153±38 | 29 | 258 | Apache 2.0 |
| 8 | Gemma 3 27B ITGoogleOpen |
1151±39 | 30 | 258 | Gemma |
| 9 | Mistral Small 3.2 (2506)Mistral AIOpen |
1059±49 | 34 | 177 | Apache 2.0 |
Scores: LMArena leaderboard-dataset (lmarena-ai on Hugging Face, CC-BY-4.0, vision config), Captioning published Oct 19, 2026. Please credit the source when citing.
Sources & methodology
- LMLMArena leaderboard dataset (Hugging Face, CC-BY-4.0)
Vision config, published Oct 19, 2026; 167 models on the overall board.
- Scores are Bradley-Terry Arena ratings fitted from human votes between two anonymous answers to the same image prompt.
- Categories (OCR, diagrams, homework, captioning, Chinese/English…) are separate LMArena boards computed on prompts of that type, not a breakdown of the overall score; ranks can differ a lot.
- Fields without public data (price, context length, release date…) are not shown; blanks are –. Nothing is estimated.
- Synced daily. JSON API: /api/public/vision-leaderboard.php
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Synced automatically once a day; ranks are compared only between real snapshots, never backfilled.FAQ
What is the best vision-language model right now?
In LMArena Vision Arena data published Oct 19, 2026, Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 (High) ranks #1 of 167 models with 1325 (14,714 votes).
What is each vendor’s best vision model?
Top overall entry per vendor: Anthropic Claude Fable 5 (High) (1325, #1), Google Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) (1315, #7), Alibaba Qwen3.8-Max (1313, #10), Meta Muse Spark 1.3 (Max) (1308, #12), OpenAI GPT-5.4 (High) (1303, #18).
Which model is best at OCR?
On LMArena’s OCR board (123 models), Claude Fable 5 (High) is #1 with 1337.
What is the best open-weight vision model?
50 open-weight models are listed; the top one is GLM-5.3-Flash (1294, MIT).
How is this different from benchmarks like MMMU?
MMMU and similar benchmarks auto-score a fixed question set; this board comes from blind human votes on people’s own images and questions, reflecting real-use preference. They are not convertible.