BetterChartQA
Gemini 2.5 Pro Jun 2025 72.4% leads since Jul 2025 Dropped Models answer annotator-written questions about real charts from news, government reports, and papers across 9 capability buckets. Scored by accuracy.
This is an in-house evaluation, and Google never released the questions.
- Level
- School Students, from grade school to high school
- Scored
- Graded by a model A language model scores each response, usually against a rubric.
- Answers
- Short answer A number, word or short string matched to a key.
Gemini 2.5 Pro leads with 72.4% among models released by Jun 2025
Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.
The newest model with a score here came out in Jun 2025, and nobody has reported a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:
- GPT-6 Astra
- Claude Opus 5.5
- GPT-6.1 Terra
- GPT-6.1 Sol
- and 16 more
- 1 Gemini 2.5 Pro Jun 2025 72.4%
- 2 Gemini 2.5 Flash Jun 2025 67.3%
- 3 Gemini 1.5 Pro May 2024 65.8%
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini 2.5 Pro Jun 2025 | 72.4% | Jul 2025 | Model card | |
| 2 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Jun 2025 | 67.3% | Jul 2025 | Model card | |
| 3 | Gemini 1.5 Pro May 2024 | 65.8% | May 2024 | Model card |
2 models have held number one since its release in Jun 2024
Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.
Scores over time
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
No launch post has listed it since May 2024
Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.
| Date | Launch post | Score | As the post writes it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 May 2024 | Gemini 1.5 Pro | 65.8 | BetterChartQA (internal), 0-shot |
2 system cards report it, from 1 lab
Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.
| Date | Document | Score | As the document writes it | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Jul 2025 | Gemini 2.5 Pro technical report | 72.4 | BetterChartQA, Gemini as judge (Table 3) | Capabilities |
| 7 Jul 2025 | Gemini 2.5 Flash technical report | 67.3 | BetterChartQA, Gemini as judge (Table 3) | Capabilities |
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