RealWorldQA

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As of August 31, 2026, Qwen3.8 Flash is #1 for RealWorldQA at 88.5%. Ranked by the RealWorldQA score 31 models in this index have a published RealWorldQA score. RealWorldQA leaderboard with live API prices. RealWorldQA — visual questions about everyday photos, signs, and spatial scenes.

Updated August 31, 2026345 models36 providers

RealWorldQA vs price

31 models. Left is cheaper. Up is a higher score. The line is the best score you can buy at each price — a dot under it is a worse deal than something on the line.

Best score at each price#1 on this board


Qwen3.8-Flash-NextOSS Qwen · Open Source	88.5%	$0.62
Qwen3.8 Flash Qwen · Proprietary	88.5%	$0.62
Qwen3.8 MaxOSS Qwen · Open Source	88%	$8.00
Qwen3.7-Plus Qwen · Proprietary	86.9%	$1.60
Seed 2.1 Pro ByteDance · Proprietary	86.7%	$5.34
Seed 2.1 Turbo ByteDance · Proprietary	86.3%	$3.00
Qwen3.8-27BOSS Qwen · Open Source	85.9%	$3.65
Qwen3.6 Plus Qwen · Proprietary	85.4%	$3.50
Qwen3.6-35B-A3BOSS Qwen · Open Source · via OpenRouter	85.3%	$1.14
Qwen3.5-122B-A10BOSS Qwen · Open Source	85.1%	$3.60
Qwen3.6-27BOSS Qwen · Open Source	84.1%	$4.20
Qwen3.5-35B-A3BOSS Qwen · Open Source	84.1%	$2.25
Qwen3.5-27BOSS Qwen · Open Source	83.7%	$2.70
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B ThinkingOSS Qwen · Open Source	81.3%	$3.94
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructOSS Qwen · Open Source	79.3%	$1.79
Qwen3 VL 32B InstructOSS Qwen · Open Source · via OpenRouter	79%	$0.52
Qwen3 VL 32B ThinkingOSS Qwen · Open Source	78.4%	$0.80
Qwen2-VL-72B-InstructOSS Qwen · Open Source · via OpenRouter	77.8%	$1.80
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B ThinkingOSS Qwen · Open Source	77.4%	$1.20
Qwen3 VL 30B A3B InstructOSS Qwen · Open Source	73.7%	$0.90
Qwen3 VL 8B ThinkingOSS Qwen · Open Source	73.5%	$2.27
Qwen3 VL 4B ThinkingOSS Qwen · Open Source	73.2%	$1.10
LFM2.5-VL-3BOSS Liquid AI · Open Source	73.1%	$0.15
Qwen3 VL 8B InstructOSS Qwen · Open Source	71.5%	$0.58
Qwen3 VL 4B InstructOSS Qwen · Open Source	70.9%	$0.70
Qwen2.5-Omni-7BOSS Qwen · Open Source	70.3%	$0.50
Grok-1.5V xAI · Proprietary	68.7%	$20.00
DeepSeek VL2OSS DeepSeek · Open Source · via Replicate	68.4%	$2.80
DeepSeek VL2 SmallOSS DeepSeek · Open Source · via Replicate	65.4%	$1.70
DeepSeek VL2 TinyOSS DeepSeek · Open Source · via Replicate	64.2%	$0.90
North Micro Vision InstructOSS Cohere · Open Source	62.2%	$0.75
ChatGPT-4o Latest OpenAI · Proprietary	—	$12.50
Claude 3 Haiku Anthropic · Proprietary	—	$1.50
Claude 3 Opus Anthropic · Proprietary	—	$90.00
Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic · Proprietary	—	$18.00
Claude 3.5 Haiku Anthropic · Proprietary	—	$4.80
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic · Proprietary	—	$18.00
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic · Proprietary	—	$18.00
Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic · Proprietary	—	$18.00
Claude Fable 5 Anthropic · Proprietary	—	$60.00
Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic · Proprietary	—	$6.00
Claude Mythos 5 Anthropic · Proprietary	—	$60.00
Claude Mythos Preview Anthropic · Proprietary	—	$60.00
Claude Opus 4 Anthropic · Proprietary	—	$90.00
Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic · Proprietary	—	$90.00
Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic · Proprietary	—	$30.00
Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic · Proprietary	—	$30.00
Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic · Proprietary	—	$30.00
Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic · Proprietary	—	$30.00
Claude Opus 5 Anthropic · Proprietary	—	$30.00

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All Large Language Models

345 models across 36 providers. Search or jump to a lab — every model page stays linked here.

Cursor

2 models

Composer 2 Composer 2 Fast

xAI

17 models

Grok 4.6 Grok 4.5 Grok 4.3 Grok-4.1 Grok-4.1 Fast Non-Reasoning Grok-4.1 Fast Reasoning Grok-4.1 Thinking Grok 4 Fast Grok Code Fast 1 Grok-4 Fast Non-Reasoning Grok-4 Fast Reasoning Grok-4 Grok-3 Grok-3 Mini Grok-2 Grok-1.5V Grok-1.5

MiniMax

7 models

MiniMax M3 MiniMax M2.7 MiniMax M2.5 MiniMax M2.1 MiniMax M2 MiniMax M1 40K MiniMax M1 80K

Qwen

55 models

Qwen3.8 Flash Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Qwen3.8-27B Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B Qwen3.8 Max Qwen3.7 Flash Qwen3.7-Plus Qwen3.7 Max Qwen3.6-27B Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Qwen3.6 Plus Qwen3.5-0.8B Qwen3.5-2B Qwen3.5-4B Qwen3.5-9B Qwen3.5-122B-A10B Qwen3.5-27B Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Qwen3.5-397B-A17B Qwen3 Max Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Thinking Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct Qwen3 VL 32B Thinking Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct Qwen3 VL 4B Thinking Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 Qwen3 235B A22B Qwen3 30B A3B Qwen3 32B Qwen2.5-Omni-7B QwQ-32B Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct Qwen3-Coder 480B A35B Instruct Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct Qwen3-Coder QvQ-72B-Preview QwQ-32B-Preview Qwen2.5 14B Instruct Qwen2.5 32B Instruct Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Qwen2.5 7B Instruct Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct Qwen2 72B Instruct Qwen2 7B Instruct

AI21 Labs

2 models

Jamba 1.5 Large Jamba 1.5 Mini

Amazon

7 models

Nova 2 Lite Nova 2 Omni Nova 2 Pro Nova 2 Sonic Nova Lite Nova Micro Nova Pro

Baidu

2 models

ERNIE 5.0 ERNIE 4.5

ByteDance

4 models

Seed 2.1 Pro Seed 2.1 Turbo Seed 2.0 Lite Seed 2.0 Pro

Cohere

4 models

North Micro Vision Instruct North Mini Code 1.0 Command A+Command R+

IBM

2 models

IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

Inception

1 models

Mercury 2

inclusionAI

1 models

Ling-3.0-flash

LG AI Research

1 models

K-EXAONE-236B-A23B

Liquid AI

2 models

LFM2.5-VL-3B LFM2.5-2.6B

Meituan

4 models

LongCat-Flash-Lite LongCat-Flash-Thinking-2601 LongCat-Flash-Thinking LongCat-Flash-Chat

Microsoft

9 models

MAI-Code-1.1-Flash MAI-Code-1-Flash MAI-Thinking-1 Phi 4 Mini Phi-4-multimodal-instruct Phi 4 Phi-3.5-mini-instruct Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct Phi-3.5-vision-instruct

Moonshot AI

11 models

Kimi K3 Kimi K2.7 Code Kimi K2.7 Code HighSpeed Kimi K2.6 Kimi K2.5 Kimi K2 0905 Kimi K2-Instruct-0905 Kimi K2-Thinking-0905 Kimi K2 Base Kimi K2 Instruct Kimi-k1.5

Nous Research

1 models

Hermes 3 70B

NVIDIA

9 models

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B A3B)Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B A55B)Nemotron 3 Super (120B A12B)Nemotron 3 Nano (30B A3B)Nemotron Nano 9B v2 Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 Llama-3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct

OpenBMB

1 models

MiniCPM-SALA

Poolside

2 models

Laguna S 2.1 Laguna XS 2.1

Sakana AI

1 models

Sakana Namazu

Sarvam AI

2 models

Sarvam-105B Sarvam-30B

StepFun

2 models

Step-3.5-Flash Step3-VL-10B

Tencent

1 models

Hy3

Thinking Machines

1 models

Inkling-Small

Unisound

1 models

Upstage

1 models

Solar Pro 4

Xiaomi

5 models

MiMo-V2.5-Pro MiMo-V2.5 MiMo-V2-Omni MiMo-V2-Pro MiMo-V2-Flash

Which model leads RealWorldQA right now?

As of August 31, 2026, Qwen3.8 Flash by Qwen is #1 for RealWorldQA at 88.5%. Ranked by the RealWorldQA score This board also tracks RealWorldQA. Next on the same board: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and Qwen3.8 Max. This realworldqa leaderboard ranks models by RealWorldQA. Scores come from public evals. Prices are the live API rates in the table above.

Sources: OpenAI API pricing (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing); Anthropic Claude API pricing (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing); Gemini API pricing (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing)

Top 8 for realworldqa. Ranked by the RealWorldQA score Input and output are dollars per million tokens.
Rank	Model	RealWorldQA	Input /M	Output /M
1	Qwen3.8 Flash	88.5%	$0.15	$0.47
2	Qwen3.8-Flash-Next	88.5%	$0.15	$0.47
3	Qwen3.8 Max	88%	$2.00	$6.00
4	Qwen3.7-Plus	86.9%	$0.32	$1.28
5	Seed 2.1 Pro	86.7%	$0.89	$4.45
6	Seed 2.1 Turbo	86.3%	$0.50	$2.50
7	Qwen3.8-27B	85.9%	$0.45	$3.20
8	Qwen3.6 Plus	85.4%	$0.50	$3.00

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RealWorldQA FAQ

Who ranks #1 on the RealWorldQA leaderboard?

As of August 31, 2026, Qwen3.8 Flash by Qwen ranks #1 on RealWorldQA at 88.5%. API pricing is $0.15/M input and $0.47/M output.

What are the top models on RealWorldQA?

The current RealWorldQA ranking as of August 31, 2026 is 1. Qwen3.8 Flash at 88.5%; 2. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next at 88.5%; 3. Qwen3.8 Max at 88%.

Which realworldqa model is the cheapest?

LFM2.5-VL-3B is the cheapest scored model on this realworldqa leaderboard at $0.05/M input and $0.10/M output ($0.15 blended). Qwen3.8 Flash still leads RealWorldQA at 88.5%.

Should I always pick the #1 RealWorldQA model?

Not automatically. Qwen3.8 Flash leads RealWorldQA, but a cheaper scored model can be the better production choice if the quality gap is small. Use the table to weigh RealWorldQA against input/output price, context window, and related evals.

How often is the RealWorldQA leaderboard updated?

Scores and API prices on this page are refreshed from published evals and provider rates. The snapshot is labeled August 31, 2026. Treat it as a current index, not a one-off blog post.

What is RealWorldQA?

RealWorldQA — visual questions about everyday photos, signs, and spatial scenes. This page ranks models that have published a RealWorldQA score, with live API token prices on the same row.

Where is the RealWorldQA leaderboard?

This page is the RealWorldQA leaderboard. Models are sorted by RealWorldQA, with input and output token prices on the same row so you can weigh score against cost. Official boards often omit price; that comparison is the point of this index.

How is this RealWorldQA ranking different from the official board?

Official eval pages own the methodology. This page keeps the published RealWorldQA score next to live API $/M so you can pick a production SKU, not only a trophy number.

RealWorldQA vs price

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All Large Language Models

OpenAI

Anthropic

Google

Cursor

xAI

DeepSeek

MiniMax

Qwen

AI21 Labs

Amazon

Baidu

ByteDance

Cohere

IBM

Inception

inclusionAI

LG AI Research

Liquid AI

Meituan

Meta

Microsoft

Mistral

Moonshot AI

Nous Research

NVIDIA

OpenBMB

Poolside

Sakana AI

Sarvam AI

StepFun

Tencent

Thinking Machines

Unisound

Upstage

Xiaomi

Z AI

Which model leads RealWorldQA right now?

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Individual benchmark pages

RealWorldQA FAQ

Who ranks #1 on the RealWorldQA leaderboard?

What are the top models on RealWorldQA?

Which realworldqa model is the cheapest?

Should I always pick the #1 RealWorldQA model?

How often is the RealWorldQA leaderboard updated?

What is RealWorldQA?

Where is the RealWorldQA leaderboard?

How is this RealWorldQA ranking different from the official board?