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About this benchmark

What is MusicCaps?

MusicCaps is a dataset composed of 5,521 music examples, each labeled with an English aspect list and a free text caption written by musicians. The dataset contains 10-second music clips from AudioSet paired with rich textual descriptions that capture sonic qualities and musical elements like genre, mood, tempo, instrumentation, and rhythm. Created to support research in music-text understanding and generation tasks.

MusicCaps is a multimodal benchmark evaluating models on multimodal and audio tasks. LLM Stats tracks 1 models on this benchmark, scored on a 0–1 scale. The current average is 0.3, with the leader at 0.3.

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Current leaders

Qwen2.5-Omni-7B from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team currently leads the MusicCaps leaderboard with a score of 0.328 across 1 evaluated AI models.

1Qwen2.5-Omni-7BAlibaba Cloud / Qwen Team32.8%

FAQ

Common questions about the MusicCaps benchmark and leaderboard.

What is the MusicCaps benchmark?

MusicCaps is a dataset composed of 5,521 music examples, each labeled with an English aspect list and a free text caption written by musicians. The dataset contains 10-second music clips from AudioSet paired with rich textual descriptions that capture sonic qualities and musical elements like genre, mood, tempo, instrumentation, and rhythm. Created to support research in music-text understanding and generation tasks.

What is the MusicCaps leaderboard?

The MusicCaps leaderboard ranks 1 AI models based on their performance on this benchmark. Currently, Qwen2.5-Omni-7B by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team leads with a score of 0.328. The average score across all models is 0.328.

What is the highest MusicCaps score?

The highest MusicCaps score is 0.328, achieved by Qwen2.5-Omni-7B from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

How many models are evaluated on MusicCaps?

1 models have been evaluated on the MusicCaps benchmark, with 0 verified results and 1 self-reported results.

Where can I find the MusicCaps paper?

The MusicCaps paper is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11325. The paper details the methodology, dataset construction, and evaluation criteria.

What categories does MusicCaps cover?

MusicCaps is categorized under multimodal and audio. The benchmark evaluates multimodal models.

What is the best open-source model on MusicCaps?

Qwen2.5-Omni-7B by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team is the top-ranked open-source model on MusicCaps, with a score of 0.328 (rank #1).

How recent are the MusicCaps leaderboard results?

The MusicCaps leaderboard was last updated in September 2026 and currently includes 1 evaluated models.