RealWorldQA

RealWorldQA is a benchmark designed to evaluate basic real-world spatial understanding capabilities of multimodal models. The initial release consists of over 700 anonymized images taken from vehicles and other real-world scenarios, each accompanied by a question and easily verifiable answer. Released by xAI as part of their Grok-1.5 Vision preview to test models' ability to understand natural scenes and spatial relationships in everyday visual contexts.

Qwen3.6 Plus from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team currently leads the RealWorldQA leaderboard with a score of 0.854 across 22 evaluated AI models.

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen TeamQwen3.6 Plus leads with 85.4%, followed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen TeamQwen3.6-35B-A3B at 85.3% and Alibaba Cloud / Qwen TeamQwen3.5-122B-A10B at 85.1%.

Progress Over Time

Interactive timeline showing model performance evolution on RealWorldQA

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RealWorldQA Leaderboard

22 models
ContextCostLicense
1
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
1.0M$0.50 / $3.00
2
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
35B
3
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
122B262K$0.40 / $3.20
4
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
28B262K$0.60 / $3.60
4
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
35B262K$0.25 / $2.00
6
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
27B262K$0.30 / $2.40
7
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
236B262K$0.45 / $3.49
8
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
236B262K$0.30 / $1.49
9
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
33B
10
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
33B
11
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
73B
12
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
31B
13
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
31B
14
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
9B262K$0.18 / $2.09
15
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
4B262K$0.10 / $1.00
16
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
9B262K$0.08 / $0.50
17
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
4B262K$0.10 / $0.60
18
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
7B
19
20
DeepSeek
DeepSeek
27B
2116B
223B
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Common questions about RealWorldQA.

What is the RealWorldQA benchmark?

RealWorldQA is a benchmark designed to evaluate basic real-world spatial understanding capabilities of multimodal models. The initial release consists of over 700 anonymized images taken from vehicles and other real-world scenarios, each accompanied by a question and easily verifiable answer. Released by xAI as part of their Grok-1.5 Vision preview to test models' ability to understand natural scenes and spatial relationships in everyday visual contexts.

What is the RealWorldQA leaderboard?

The RealWorldQA leaderboard ranks 22 AI models based on their performance on this benchmark. Currently, Qwen3.6 Plus by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team leads with a score of 0.854. The average score across all models is 0.764.

What is the highest RealWorldQA score?

The highest RealWorldQA score is 0.854, achieved by Qwen3.6 Plus from Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

How many models are evaluated on RealWorldQA?

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

What categories does RealWorldQA cover?

RealWorldQA is categorized under spatial reasoning and vision. The benchmark evaluates multimodal models.

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