PMC-VQA

A medical visual question answering benchmark built on biomedical literature and medical figures.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team currently leads the PMC-VQA leaderboard with a score of 0.633 across 3 evaluated AI models.

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen TeamQwen3.5-122B-A10B leads with 63.3%, followed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen TeamQwen3.5-27B at 62.4% and Alibaba Cloud / Qwen TeamQwen3.5-35B-A3B at 62.0%.

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PMC-VQA Leaderboard

3 models
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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
122B262K$0.40 / $3.20
2
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
27B262K$0.30 / $2.40
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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
35B262K$0.25 / $2.00
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Common questions about PMC-VQA.

What is the PMC-VQA benchmark?

A medical visual question answering benchmark built on biomedical literature and medical figures.

What is the PMC-VQA leaderboard?

The PMC-VQA leaderboard ranks 3 AI models based on their performance on this benchmark. Currently, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team leads with a score of 0.633. The average score across all models is 0.626.

What is the highest PMC-VQA score?

The highest PMC-VQA score is 0.633, achieved by Qwen3.5-122B-A10B from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

How many models are evaluated on PMC-VQA?

3 models have been evaluated on the PMC-VQA benchmark, with 0 verified results and 3 self-reported results.

What categories does PMC-VQA cover?

PMC-VQA is categorized under healthcare, multimodal, reasoning, and vision. The benchmark evaluates multimodal models.

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