Vision & Language Benchmark

RealWorldQA

RealWorldQA - visual question answering on real-world images.

Category

Vision & Language

Score type

percent

Scale

100%

higher is better

Models tested

16

What is RealWorldQA?

RealWorldQA is a benchmark for understanding images combined with text. The official description says: "RealWorldQA - visual question answering on real-world images". Below we describe in simple words what benchmarks of this type generally examine.

What does it test?

RealWorldQA measures understanding images combined with text. In detail, it checks:

  • answering questions about images (figures, photos, charts, memes)
  • reading text inside images and connecting it to the question
  • visual reasoning such as counting, locating and comparing objects
  • combining what is seen with general knowledge

How to read the score

The score is accuracy: the percentage of tasks answered or solved correctly. 100% means every task was solved perfectly; higher is better.

Official methodology note: RealWorldQA - visual question answering on real-world images.

Frequently asked questions

What is the RealWorldQA benchmark?

RealWorldQA is a benchmark for understanding images combined with text. The official description says: 'RealWorldQA - visual question answering on real-world images'. Below we describe in simple words what benchmarks of this type generally examine.

What does RealWorldQA test?

RealWorldQA mainly measures understanding images combined with text. Concretely, it checks: answering questions about images (figures, photos, charts, memes); reading text inside images and connecting it to the question; visual reasoning such as counting, locating and comparing objects.

How is the RealWorldQA score calculated?

The score is accuracy: the percentage of tasks answered or solved correctly. 100% means every task was solved perfectly; higher is better. The declared maximum score of this benchmark is 100.0.

Where do I get RealWorldQA data and scores?

The official benchmark page/reference is linked on this page. Every score on Open LLM Radar is also available as open data: download the scores JSON (http://open-llm-radar-api:8000/api/v1/benchmarks/realworldqa/scores) or pull it directly from the Open LLM Radar API with any HTTP client.

Model scores 16 models tested

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# Model Score Date Source Verified
1 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Qwen Team (Alibaba)
88.5%
26.08.2026 Report Verified
2 Qwen3.8-27B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
85.9%
18.08.2026 Report Verified
3 Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
85.3%
16.04.2026 Qwen Team (official model card) Verified
4 Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
85.1%
01.02.2026 Report Verified
5 Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
84.1%
16.04.2026 Qwen Team (official model card - comparison) Unverified
6 Qwen3.6-27B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
84.1%
22.04.2026 Qwen Team (official model card) Verified
7 Qwen3.5-27B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
83.7%
16.04.2026 Qwen Team (official model card - comparison) Unverified
8 Qwen3-235B-A22B
Qwen Team (Alibaba Cloud)
81.3%
01.02.2026 Report Unverified
9 Qwen3.5-4B
Qwen
79.5%
01.02.2026 Report Verified
10 LFM3-VL-2B
LiquidAI
79.3%
— Report Verified
11 Gemma4-31B-it
Google
72.3%
16.04.2026 Qwen Team (official model card - comparison) Unverified
12 Gemma4-26B-A4B
Google
72.2%
16.04.2026 Qwen Team (official model card - comparison) Unverified
13 LFM3-Omni-2B
LiquidAI
66.54%
— Report Verified
14 Gemma 3 27B PT
Google DeepMind
53.9%
27.02.2025 Report Verified
15 Gemma 3 12B PT
Google DeepMind
52.2%
27.02.2025 Report Verified
16 Gemma 3 4B PT
Google DeepMind
45.5%
27.02.2025 Report Verified

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