LVOmniBench
Models answer questions about long videos with rich audio, often tens of minutes long. The questions need both the audio and the video track.
Qwen reports it as long video reasoning.
- Made by
- Tao et al. (arXiv 2603.19217)
- Released
- March 2026
- Kind
- Long videos
- Level
- Everyday
- Scored
- Checked automatically
- Answers
- Multiple choice
- Tasks
- All public
- Strongest model tested
-
Gemini 3 Pro #55 on the capability index
- Last in a launch post
- September 2026
- Last model added
- September 2026
- Scores refreshed
- November 12th, 2026
In the authors’ words
Recent advancements in omnimodal large language models (OmniLLMs) have significantly improved the comprehension of audio and video inputs. However, current evaluations primarily focus on short audio and video clips ranging from 10 seconds to 5 minutes, failing to reflect the demands of real-world applications, where videos typically run for tens of minutes. To address this critical gap, we introduce LVOmniBench, a new benchmark designed specifically for the cross-modal comprehension of long-form audio and video. This dataset comprises high-quality videos sourced from open platforms that feature rich audio-visual dynamics. Through rigorous manual selection and annotation, LVOmniBench comprises 275 videos, ranging in duration from 10 to 90 minutes, and 1,014 question-answer (QA) pairs. LVOmniBench aims to rigorously evaluate the capabilities of OmniLLMs across domains, including long-term memory, temporal localization, fine-grained understanding, and multimodal perception. Our extensive evaluation reveals that current OmniLLMs encounter significant challenges when processing extended audio-visual inputs. Open-source models generally achieve accuracies below 35%, whereas the Gemini 3 Pro reaches a peak accuracy of approximately 65%. We anticipate that this dataset, along with our empirical findings, will stimulate further research and the development of advanced models capable of resolving complex cross-modal understanding problems within long-form audio-visual contexts.
Gemini 3 Pro leads with 65.8% among models released by February 2026
Best score per entry from the benchmark's own leaderboard, read on November 12th, 2026. Where a model ran with several settings or harnesses, we keep its best. Names in gray aren't in our model list: fine-tunes, agent systems, products and older models. They don't count toward leaders.
Gemini 3 Pro leads with 65.8%, claims included
Best score per model from every source, including labs’ own numbers and claims Epoch AI collected from reports and papers. Labs pick their own settings, so a claim can beat an independent run of the same model.
The newest model with a score here came out in February 2026, and nobody has tested a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:
- Claude Fable 5.2
-
Gemini 4 Carbon
- GPT-6 Astra
- Claude Opus 5.5
- and 16 more
- 1
Gemini 3 Pro A + V 65.8%
- 2
Gemini 3 Flash A + V 59%
- 3 Gemini-2.0-Flash (snapshot unspecified) A + V 42.9%
- 4 Qwen3-VL-30B V 36.3%
- 5 Qwen3-Omni-30B A + V 35.8%
- 6 Qwen3-VL-8B V 35.6%
- 7
MiniCPM-o 4.5 A + V 34.8%
- 8 Ming-Omni-2.0-100B A + V 34.6%
- 9 video-SALMONN 2+ 7B A + V 32.7%
- 10
Qwen2.5-Omni-7B A + V 32%
- 11 VideoLLAMA2-7B A + V 27.2%
- 12
Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct A 24.7%
Source: Official LVOmniBench leaderboard
- 1
Gemini 3 Pro A + V 65.8%
- 2
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash 63.3%
- 3
Gemini 3 Flash A + V 59%
- 4
MiniCPM-o 4.5 A + V 34.8%
- 5
Qwen2.5-Omni-7B A + V 32%
- 6 VideoLLAMA2-7B A + V 27.2%
- 7
Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct A 24.7%
Sources: Official LVOmniBench leaderboard and labs’ model cards
| # | Entry | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 65.8% | A + V | Nov 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 2 | | 59% | A + V | Dec 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 3 | Gemini-2.0-Flash (snapshot unspecified) | 42.9% | A + V | Official leaderboard | |
| 4 | Qwen3-VL-30B | 36.3% | V | Official leaderboard | |
| 5 | Qwen3-Omni-30B | 35.8% | A + V | Official leaderboard | |
| 6 | Qwen3-VL-8B | 35.6% | V | Official leaderboard | |
| 7 | | 34.8% | A + V | Feb 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 8 | Ming-Omni-2.0-100B | 34.6% | A + V | Official leaderboard | |
| 9 | video-SALMONN 2+ 7B | 32.7% | A + V | Official leaderboard | |
| 10 | | 32% | A + V | Mar 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 11 | VideoLLAMA2-7B | 27.2% | A + V | Jun 2024 | Official leaderboard |
| 12 | | 24.7% | A | Aug 2024 | Official leaderboard |
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 65.8% | A + V | Nov 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 2 | | 63.3% | Sep 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 3 | | 59% | A + V | Dec 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 4 | | 34.8% | A + V | Feb 2026 | Official leaderboard |
| 5 | | 32% | A + V | Mar 2025 | Official leaderboard |
| 6 | VideoLLAMA2-7B | 27.2% | A + V | Jun 2024 | Official leaderboard |
| 7 | | 24.7% | A | Aug 2024 | Official leaderboard |
Labs report scores for 1 model in their cards. Switch the scores above to rank them together.
Number one over time Number one over time
Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.
Source: Official LVOmniBench leaderboard
Scores over time
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
Sources: Official LVOmniBench leaderboard and 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2026 | 63.3 | LVOmniBench Long Video Reasoning (static; Qwen Code 73.6) |
One system card reports it
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 2026 | | 63.3 | LVOmniBench, Static (Tables 5 and 7). Qwen Code agentic 73.6 | Capabilities |
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