Benchmark Almanac

Vibe-Eval

Seed2.0 Pro 81.4% leads since Feb 2026 Dropped

Models answer 269 image-based prompts, 100 of them hard, that have expert gold responses. A Reka Core judge rates each answer.

In the authors’ words

We introduce Vibe-Eval: a new open benchmark and framework for evaluating multimodal chat models. Vibe-Eval consists of 269 visual understanding prompts, including 100 of hard difficulty, complete with gold-standard responses authored by experts. Vibe-Eval is open-ended and challenging with dual objectives: (i) vibe checking multimodal chat models for day-to-day tasks and (ii) rigorously testing and probing the capabilities of present frontier models. Notably, our hard set contains >50% questions that all frontier models answer incorrectly. We explore the nuances of designing, evaluating, and ranking models on ultra challenging prompts. We also discuss trade-offs between human and automatic evaluation, and show that automatic model evaluation using Reka Core roughly correlates to human judgment. We offer free API access for the purpose of lightweight evaluation and plan to conduct formal human evaluations for public models that perform well on the Vibe-Eval's automatic scores. We release the evaluation code and data, see https://github.com/reka-ai/reka-vibe-eval

Abstract of Vibe-Eval: A hard evaluation suite for measuring progress of multimodal language models (arXiv:2405.02287, CC0)
Made by Reka AI Released May 2024 General visual questions All tasks public Last in a launch post Sep 2025 , dropped before it saturated Last model added Feb 2026
Level
Everyday Most adults, without training
Scored
Graded by a model A language model scores each response, usually against a rubric.
Answers
Open-ended Free-form text, documents, designs or media judged as a whole.
9
Models scored in lab cards
8
Launch posts list it, from 1 lab
6
System cards report it, from 2 labs

Seed2.0 Pro leads with 81.4% among models released by Feb 2026

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 Feb 2026, and nobody has reported a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:

  1. 1 Seed2.0 Pro 81.4%
  2. 2 Gemini 2.5 Pro Mar 2025 69.4%
  3. 3 Gemini 2.5 Pro Jun 2025 67.2%
  4. 4 Gemini 2.5 Flash Jun 2025 65.4%
  5. 5 Gemini 2.5 Flash Apr 2025 62%
  6. 6 Gemini 2.5 Flash Sep 2025 62%
  7. 7 Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Sep 2025 59.8%
  8. 8 Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Jun 2025 57.5%
  9. 9 Gemini 2.0 Flash Dec 2024 56.3%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Seed2.0 Pro 81.4% Feb 2026 Model card
2 Gemini 2.5 Pro Mar 2025 69.4% Mar 2025 Model card
3 Gemini 2.5 Pro Jun 2025 67.2% Jun 2025 Model card
4 Gemini 2.5 Flash Jun 2025 65.4% Jun 2025 Model card
5 Gemini 2.5 Flash Apr 2025 62% Apr 2025 Model card
6 Gemini 2.5 Flash Sep 2025 62% Sep 2025 Model card
7 Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Sep 2025 59.8% Sep 2025 Model card
8 Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Jun 2025 57.5% Jun 2025 Model card
9 Gemini 2.0 Flash Dec 2024 56.3% Dec 2024 Model card

3 models have held number one since its release in May 2024

Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.

Google DeepMind ByteDance Seed
Lab claims Not tested since Feb 2026
Seed2.0 Pro 81.4%

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

Reported by the lab in its model card Best so far
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2025 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) Seed2.0 Pro Gemini 2.5 Pro Gemini 2.0 Flash 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2025 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) Seed2.0 Pro Gemini 2.5 Pro

No launch post has listed it since Sep 2025

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.

Google DeepMind
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
25 Sep 2025 Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite 59.8 Vibe-Eval (Reka), Thinking
25 Sep 2025 Gemini 2.5 Flash 62 Vibe-Eval (Reka), model card
17 Jun 2025 Gemini 2.5 Flash 65.4 Vibe-Eval (Reka)
17 Jun 2025 Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite 57.5 Vibe-Eval (Reka), Thinking
17 Jun 2025 Gemini 2.5 Pro 67.2 Vibe-Eval (Reka)
17 Apr 2025 Gemini 2.5 Flash 62 Vibe-Eval (Reka)
25 Mar 2025 Gemini 2.5 Pro 69.4 Vibe-Eval (Reka)
11 Dec 2024 Gemini 2.0 Flash 56.3 Vibe-Eval (Reka)

6 system cards report it, from 2 labs

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.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
14 Feb 2026 Seed2.0 Pro model card 81.4 VibeEval, 1 to 5 ratings scaled to 0 to 100 (Table 8) Capabilities
26 Sep 2025 Gemini 2.5 Flash model card 62 Image understanding Vibe-Eval (Reka), Gemini as judge (Table, p.5) Capabilities
7 Jul 2025 Gemini 2.5 Pro technical report 67.2 Vibe-Eval (Reka), Gemini as judge (Table 3) Capabilities
7 Jul 2025 Gemini 2.5 Flash technical report 65.4 Vibe-Eval (Reka), Gemini as judge (Table 3) Capabilities
29 Apr 2025 Gemini 2.5 Flash model card 62 Vibe-Eval (Reka), Gemini as judge (Table, p.4) Capabilities
28 Apr 2025 Gemini 2.5 Pro model card 69.4 Vibe-Eval (Reka), Gemini as judge (Table, p.4, column Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental 03-25) Capabilities

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