MLVU
A comprehensive benchmark for multi-task long video understanding that evaluates multimodal large language models on videos ranging from 3 minutes to 2 hours across 9 distinct tasks including reasoning, captioning, recognition, and summarization.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team currently leads the MLVU leaderboard with a score of 0.873 across 9 evaluated AI models.
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B leads with 87.3%, followed by
Qwen3.6 Plus at 86.7% and
Qwen3.6-27B at 86.6%.
Progress Over Time
Interactive timeline showing model performance evolution on MLVU
MLVU Leaderboard
| Context | Cost | License | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | 122B | 262K | $0.40 / $3.20 | ||
| 2 | Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | — | 1.0M | $0.50 / $3.00 | ||
| 3 | Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | 28B | 262K | $0.60 / $3.60 | ||
| 4 | Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | 35B | — | — | ||
| 5 | Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | 27B | 262K | $0.30 / $2.40 | ||
| 6 | Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | 35B | 262K | $0.25 / $2.00 | ||
| 7 | Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | 236B | 262K | $0.30 / $1.49 | ||
| 8 | Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | 236B | 262K | $0.45 / $3.49 | ||
| 9 | Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team | 8B | — | — |
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