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.

About this benchmark

What PMC-VQA measures

PMC-VQA is a multimodal benchmark that evaluates large language models on multimodal, reasoning, healthcare, and vision tasks. LLM Stats tracks 3 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.

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

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%.

Progress Over Time

Interactive timeline showing model performance evolution on PMC-VQA

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PMC-VQA Leaderboard

3 models
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1
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
3
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 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, Qwen3.5-35B-A3B from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team is the cheapest, at $0.25 per million input tokens with a score of 0.620.

How recent are the PMC-VQA leaderboard results?

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

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