OCRBench-V2 (zh)

OCRBench v2 Chinese subset: Enhanced benchmark for evaluating Large Multimodal Models on visual text localization and reasoning with Chinese text content

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team currently leads the OCRBench-V2 (zh) leaderboard with a score of 0.635 across 11 evaluated AI models.

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About this benchmark

What OCRBench-V2 (zh) measures

OCRBench-V2 (zh) is a multimodal benchmark that evaluates large language models on image to text and vision tasks. LLM Stats tracks 11 models on this benchmark, with a maximum possible score of 1. Current average across reported models is 0.6, with the leader reaching 0.6.

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Publication

Paper
OCRBench v2: An Improved Benchmark for Evaluating Large Multimodal Models on Visual Text Localization and Reasoning
Authors
Ling Fu, Zhebin Kuang, Jiajun Song, Mingxin Huang, and 20 others
Published

Abstract

Scoring the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) has witnessed growing interest. Existing benchmarks have highlighted the impressive performance of LMMs in text recognition; however, their abilities in certain challenging tasks, such as text localization, handwritten content extraction, and logical reasoning, remain underexplored. To bridge this gap, we introduce OCRBench v2, a large-scale bilingual text-centric benchmark with currently the most comprehensive set of tasks (4x more tasks than the previous multi-scene benchmark OCRBench), the widest coverage of scenarios (31 diverse scenarios), and thorough evaluation metrics, with 10,000 human-verified question-answering pairs and a high proportion of difficult samples. Moreover, we construct a private test set with 1,500 manually annotated images. The consistent evaluation trends observed across both public and private test sets validate the OCRBench v2's reliability. After carefully benchmarking state-of-the-art LMMs, we find that most LMMs score below 50 (100 in total) and suffer from five-type limitations, including less frequently encountered text recognition, fine-grained perception, layout perception, complex element parsing, and logical reasoning. The project website is at: https://99franklin.github.io/ocrbench_v2/

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen TeamQwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking leads with 63.5%, followed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen TeamQwen3 VL 32B Thinking at 62.1% and Alibaba Cloud / Qwen TeamQwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct at 61.8%.

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OCRBench-V2 (zh) Leaderboard

11 models
ContextCostLicense
1
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
236B
2
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
33B
3
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
236B262K$0.30 / $1.50
4
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
9B262K$0.08 / $0.50
5
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
31B
6
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
9B262K$0.18 / $2.09
6
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
33B
8
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
34B
9
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
31B
10
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
4B262K$0.10 / $0.60
11
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
4B262K$0.10 / $1.00
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Common questions about OCRBench-V2 (zh).

What is the OCRBench-V2 (zh) benchmark?

OCRBench v2 Chinese subset: Enhanced benchmark for evaluating Large Multimodal Models on visual text localization and reasoning with Chinese text content

What is the OCRBench-V2 (zh) leaderboard?

The OCRBench-V2 (zh) leaderboard ranks 11 AI models based on their performance on this benchmark. Currently, Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team leads with a score of 0.635. The average score across all models is 0.598.

What is the highest OCRBench-V2 (zh) score?

The highest OCRBench-V2 (zh) score is 0.635, achieved by Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

How many models are evaluated on OCRBench-V2 (zh)?

11 models have been evaluated on the OCRBench-V2 (zh) benchmark, with 0 verified results and 11 self-reported results.

Where can I find the OCRBench-V2 (zh) paper?

The OCRBench-V2 (zh) paper is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00321. The paper details the methodology, dataset construction, and evaluation criteria.

What categories does OCRBench-V2 (zh) cover?

OCRBench-V2 (zh) is categorized under image to text and vision. The benchmark evaluates multimodal models.

What is the best open-source model on OCRBench-V2 (zh)?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team is the top-ranked open-source model on OCRBench-V2 (zh), with a score of 0.635 (rank #1).

Which model offers the best value on OCRBench-V2 (zh)?

Among models scoring within 10% of the leader, Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team is the cheapest, at $0.08 per million input tokens with a score of 0.612.

How recent are the OCRBench-V2 (zh) leaderboard results?

The OCRBench-V2 (zh) leaderboard was last updated in June 2026 and currently includes 11 evaluated models.

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