OCRBench

OCRBench: Comprehensive evaluation benchmark for assessing Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities in Large Multimodal Models across text recognition, scene text VQA, and document understanding tasks

Kimi K2.5 from Moonshot AI currently leads the OCRBench leaderboard with a score of 0.923 across 22 evaluated AI models.

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Moonshot AIKimi K2.5 leads with 92.3%, followed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen TeamQwen3.5-122B-A10B at 92.1% and Alibaba Cloud / Qwen TeamQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct at 92.0%.

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Interactive timeline showing model performance evolution on OCRBench

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OCRBench Leaderboard

22 models
ContextCostLicense
1
Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI
1.0T
2
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
122B262K$0.40 / $3.20
3
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
236B262K$0.30 / $1.50
4
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
35B262K$0.25 / $2.00
5
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
31B
6
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
9B262K$0.08 / $0.50
7
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
33B
8
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
27B262K$0.30 / $2.40
8
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
28B262K$0.60 / $3.60
10
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
72B
11
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
4B262K$0.10 / $0.60
12
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
73B
13
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
236B262K$0.45 / $3.49
14
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
8B
15
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
33B
166B
17
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
31B
1816B
19
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
9B262K$0.18 / $2.09
20
DeepSeek
DeepSeek
27B
213B
22
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
4B262K$0.10 / $1.00
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FAQ

Common questions about OCRBench.

What is the OCRBench benchmark?

OCRBench: Comprehensive evaluation benchmark for assessing Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities in Large Multimodal Models across text recognition, scene text VQA, and document understanding tasks

What is the OCRBench leaderboard?

The OCRBench leaderboard ranks 22 AI models based on their performance on this benchmark. Currently, Kimi K2.5 by Moonshot AI leads with a score of 0.923. The average score across all models is 0.871.

What is the highest OCRBench score?

The highest OCRBench score is 0.923, achieved by Kimi K2.5 from Moonshot AI.

How many models are evaluated on OCRBench?

22 models have been evaluated on the OCRBench benchmark, with 0 verified results and 22 self-reported results.

Where can I find the OCRBench paper?

The OCRBench paper is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07895. The paper details the methodology, dataset construction, and evaluation criteria.

What categories does OCRBench cover?

OCRBench is categorized under image to text and vision. The benchmark evaluates multimodal models.

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