LingoQA
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
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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.
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:
- Claude Fable 5.2
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Gemini 4 Carbon
- GPT-6 Astra
- Claude Opus 5.5
- and 16 more
- 1
Qwen 3.8 Max 84.8%
- 2
Qwen3.7-Plus 83.4%
- 3
Qwen3.5-27B 82%
- 4
Qwen3.5 397B-A17B 81.6%
- 5
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B 80.8%
- 6
Qwen3.5-9B 80.4%
- 7
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B 79.2%
- 8
Qwen3.5-4B 74.4%
- 9
Cosmos3-Nano 68.4%
- 10
Cosmos3-Edge 58.2%
Source: Labs’ model cards
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 84.8% | Aug 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 2 | | 83.4% | Jun 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 3 | | 82% | Feb 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 4 | | 81.6% | Feb 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 5 | | 80.8% | Feb 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 6 | | 80.4% | Mar 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 7 | | 79.2% | Feb 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 8 | | 74.4% | Mar 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 9 | | 68.4% | May 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 10 | | 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.
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.
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.
| Date | Launch post | Score | As the post writes it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 2026 | 84.8 | LingoQA | |
| Jun 1, 2026 | 83.4 | LingoQA | |
| Mar 2, 2026 | 74.4 | LingoQA | |
| Mar 2, 2026 | 80.4 | LingoQA | |
| Feb 24, 2026 | 79.2 | LingoQA | |
| Feb 24, 2026 | 82 | LingoQA | |
| Feb 24, 2026 | 80.8 | LingoQA | |
| Feb 16, 2026 | 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.
| Date | Document | Score | As the document writes it | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 2026 | | 68.4 | LingoQA, Cosmos3-Nano 8B column, Table 10 | Capabilities |
| May 31, 2026 | | 58.2 | LingoQA, Cosmos3-Edge 2B column, Table 10 | Capabilities |
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