LLaVA 1.6 34B
–OpenApache 2.0
LLaVA 1.6 34B is a vision-language model from –. It ranks 162 of 167 on LMArena’s overall vision board with 936±12 from 4,531 votes. License: Apache 2.0.
Key figures
- License
- Apache 2.0
- First seen (our snapshots)
- 2026-10-26
No data: Developer, OCR, Diagrams, Homework, Captioning, Entity recognition, Creative writing, Humor.
Who it suits
- Overall #162 of 167: lower half; consider it mainly for cost or deployment reasons.
- Open weights (Apache 2.0): you can self-host it.
Neighbours on the overall board
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License | Δ vs this model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 159 |  Claude 3 Haiku (20240307) Anthropic | 950 | 13,380 | Proprietary | +14 |
| 160 | OInternVL2 4B OpenGVLab | 941 | 3,703 | MIT | +5 |
| 161 | Nnvila-internal-15b-v1 NVIDIA | 940 | 1,077 | - | +4 |
| 162 | LLLaVA 1.6 34B | 936 | 4,531 | Apache 2.0 | |
| 163 |  CogVLM2 Llama3 Chat 19B Z.ai | 928 | 1,991 | CogVLM2 | -8 |
| 164 | LLLaVA-OneVision Qwen2 72B OV | 923 | 1,321 | Apache 2.0 | -13 |
| 165 | OMiniCPM-V 2.6 OpenBMB | 912 | 1,987 | Apache 2.0 | -24 |
Alternatives · Top open-weight models
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai | 1294 | 16,254 | MIT |
| 34 |  Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI | 1282 | 16,368 | Modified MIT |
| 38 |  DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max) DeepSeek | 1278 | 4,100 | MIT |
| 39 |  Gemma 4 31B Google | 1276 | 40,219 | Apache 2.0 |
| 44 |  Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba | 1269 | 7,614 | Apache 2.0 |
How to read these scores
- If two scores differ by less than their ± intervals, the models are statistically close.
- Each category board is computed independently; do not compare scores across categories.
- Models with few votes move more; ranks of new entries may change.
FAQ
Where does LLaVA 1.6 34B rank among vision models?
Overall rank 162 (936); English rank 160 (970); Chinese rank 126 (915) (LMArena, data as of Oct 26, 2026).
How good is LLaVA 1.6 34B at OCR?
LLaVA 1.6 34B is not on LMArena’s OCR board yet, so there is no score to cite.
Is LLaVA 1.6 34B better with Chinese or English prompts?
Chinese board: #126 of 128 (915); English board: #160 of 167 (970). The boards are computed separately, so compare ranks rather than scores.
Is LLaVA 1.6 34B open-weight?
LMArena lists its license as Apache 2.0, not proprietary; check the license text for commercial use.
How far is LLaVA 1.6 34B from #1?
#1 overall is Claude Fable 5 (High) (1325); LLaVA 1.6 34B has 936, 389 points behind.
Sources
LMArena data published Oct 19, 2026.
Synced here Oct 26, 2026.
Price, context length and release date have no reliable public data here and are not shown; all figures come from snapshots, blanks are –.