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ZEROBench Leaderboard

15 models
ContextCostLicense
1
ByteDance
ByteDance
—256K$0.25 / $2.00
2763B1.0M$0.30 / $1.20
3816B1.0M$1.25 / $4.25
4763B1.0M$0.22 / $0.66
5
Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI
2.8T1.0M$2.85 / $14.25
6—1.0M$0.44 / $1.32
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8
ByteDance
ByteDance
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9———
9
Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI
1.0T——
11
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
27B262K$0.26 / $2.60
12
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
122B262K$0.29 / $2.40
13
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
35B262K$0.14 / $1.00
14
ByteDance
ByteDance
—256K$0.10 / $0.40
15
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
236B——
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About this benchmark

What is ZEROBench?

ZEROBench is a challenging vision benchmark designed to test models on zero-shot visual understanding tasks.

ZEROBench is a image benchmark evaluating models on multimodal, reasoning, and vision tasks. LLM Stats tracks 15 models on this benchmark, scored on a 0–100 scale. The current average is 1.0, with the leader at 11.0.

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

Current leaders

Seed 1.8 from ByteDance currently leads the ZEROBench leaderboard with a score of 11.000 across 15 evaluated AI models.

1Seed 1.8ByteDance11.0%

FAQ

Common questions about the ZEROBench benchmark and leaderboard.

What is the ZEROBench benchmark?

ZEROBench is a challenging vision benchmark designed to test models on zero-shot visual understanding tasks.

What is the ZEROBench leaderboard?

The ZEROBench leaderboard ranks 15 AI models based on their performance on this benchmark. Currently, Seed 1.8 by ByteDance leads with a score of 11.000. The average score across all models is 0.958.

What is the highest ZEROBench score?

The highest ZEROBench score is 11.000, achieved by Seed 1.8 from ByteDance.

How many models are evaluated on ZEROBench?

15 models have been evaluated on the ZEROBench benchmark, with 0 verified results and 15 self-reported results.

What categories does ZEROBench cover?

ZEROBench is categorized under multimodal, reasoning, and vision. The benchmark evaluates image models.

Are there variants of ZEROBench?

Yes. ZEROBench has 1 related variant: ZEROBench-Sub.

What is the best open-source model on ZEROBench?

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 by DeepSeek is the top-ranked open-source model on ZEROBench, with a score of 0.510 (rank #2).

Which model offers the best value on ZEROBench?

Among models scoring within 10% of the leader, Seed 1.8 from ByteDance is the cheapest, at $0.25 per million input tokens with a score of 11.000.

How recent are the ZEROBench leaderboard results?

The ZEROBench leaderboard was last updated in October 2026 and currently includes 15 evaluated models.