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PMC-VQA Leaderboard

3 models
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1
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
122B
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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
27B262K$0.30 / $2.40
3
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
35B
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About this benchmark

What is PMC-VQA?

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

PMC-VQA is a multimodal benchmark evaluating models on multimodal, reasoning, healthcare, and vision tasks. LLM Stats tracks 3 models on this benchmark, scored on a 0–1 scale. The current average is 0.6, with the leader at 0.6.

Compare leaders on the best AI for multimodal, best AI for reasoning, best AI for healthcare and best AI for vision leaderboards.

Current leaders

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.

1Qwen3.5-122B-A10BAlibaba Cloud / Qwen Team63.3%
2Qwen3.5-27BAlibaba Cloud / Qwen Team62.4%
3Qwen3.5-35B-A3BAlibaba Cloud / Qwen Team62.0%

FAQ

Common questions about the PMC-VQA benchmark and leaderboard.

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 multimodal, reasoning, healthcare, and vision. The benchmark evaluates multimodal models.

What is the best open-source model on PMC-VQA?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team is the top-ranked open-source model on PMC-VQA, with a score of 0.633 (rank #1).

Which model offers the best value on PMC-VQA?

Among models scoring within 10% of the leader, Qwen3.5-27B from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team is the cheapest, at $0.30 per million input tokens with a score of 0.624.

How recent are the PMC-VQA leaderboard results?

The PMC-VQA leaderboard was last updated in August 2026 and currently includes 3 evaluated models.
PMC-VQA Leaderboard