Benchmark Almanac

LingoQA

Qwen 3.8 Max 84.8% leads since August 2026
In use

Models answer free-form questions about short driving videos. A trained classifier, Lingo-Judge, scores whether each answer is truthful.

Made by
Wayve
Released
December 2023
Kind
General visual questions
Level
Everyday
Scored
Graded by a model
Answers
Open-ended
Tasks
All public
Strongest model tested
Qwen 3.8 Max #29 on the capability index
Last in a launch post
August 2026
Last model added
August 2026

In the authors’ words

We introduce LingoQA, a novel dataset and benchmark for visual question answering in autonomous driving. The dataset contains 28K unique short video scenarios, and 419K annotations. Evaluating state-of-the-art vision-language models on our benchmark shows that their performance is below human capabilities, with GPT-4V responding truthfully to 59.6% of the questions compared to 96.6% for humans. For evaluation, we propose a truthfulness classifier, called Lingo-Judge, that achieves a 0.95 Spearman correlation coefficient to human evaluations, surpassing existing techniques like METEOR, BLEU, CIDEr, and GPT-4. We establish a baseline vision-language model and run extensive ablation studies to understand its performance. We release our dataset and benchmark as an evaluation platform for vision-language models in autonomous driving.

Abstract of LingoQA: Visual Question Answering for Autonomous Driving (arXiv:2312.14115, CC0)
10
Models scored in lab cards
8
Launch posts list it, from 1 lab
2
System cards report it, from 1 lab

Qwen 3.8 Max leads with 84.8% among models released by August 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 August 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 Qwen 3.8 Max 84.8%
  2. 2 Qwen3.7-Plus 83.4%
  3. 3 Qwen3.5-27B 82%
  4. 4 Qwen3.5 397B-A17B 81.6%
  5. 5 Qwen3.5-122B-A10B 80.8%
  6. 6 Qwen3.5-9B 80.4%
  7. 7 Qwen3.5-35B-A3B 79.2%
  8. 8 Qwen3.5-4B 74.4%
  9. 9 Cosmos3-Nano 68.4%
  10. 10 Cosmos3-Edge 58.2%

Source: Labs’ model cards

#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Qwen 3.8 Max 84.8% Aug 2026 Lab model card
2 Qwen3.7-Plus 83.4% Jun 2026 Lab model card
3 Qwen3.5-27B 82% Feb 2026 Lab model card
4 Qwen3.5 397B-A17B 81.6% Feb 2026 Lab model card
5 Qwen3.5-122B-A10B 80.8% Feb 2026 Lab model card
6 Qwen3.5-9B 80.4% Mar 2026 Lab model card
7 Qwen3.5-35B-A3B 79.2% Feb 2026 Lab model card
8 Qwen3.5-4B 74.4% Mar 2026 Lab model card
9 Cosmos3-Nano 68.4% May 2026 Lab model card
10 Cosmos3-Edge 58.2% May 2026 Lab model card

4 models have held number one in labs’ own numbers since its release in December 2023

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

Qwen
Lab claims Not tested since Aug 2026
Qwen 3.8 Max 84.8%

Source: Labs’ model cards

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% 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) Qwen 3.8 Max Qwen3.7-Plus Qwen3.5-27B 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) Qwen 3.8 Max Qwen3.5 397B-A17B

Source: Labs’ model cards

One lab put it in a launch post in the last six months

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.

Qwen
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
Aug 3, 2026 Qwen 3.8 Max 84.8 LingoQA
Jun 1, 2026 Qwen3.7-Plus 83.4 LingoQA
Mar 2, 2026 Qwen3.5-4B 74.4 LingoQA
Mar 2, 2026 Qwen3.5-9B 80.4 LingoQA
Feb 24, 2026 Qwen3.5-35B-A3B 79.2 LingoQA
Feb 24, 2026 Qwen3.5-27B 82 LingoQA
Feb 24, 2026 Qwen3.5-122B-A10B 80.8 LingoQA
Feb 16, 2026 Qwen3.5 397B-A17B 81.6 LingoQA

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.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
May 31, 2026 Cosmos3-Nano technical report 68.4 LingoQA, Cosmos3-Nano 8B column, Table 10 Capabilities
May 31, 2026 Cosmos3-Edge technical report 58.2 LingoQA, Cosmos3-Edge 2B column, Table 10 Capabilities

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