Benchmark Almanac

OpenAudioBench

Dropped

Models answer spoken questions in five sets: Reasoning QA, Llama Questions, Web Questions, TriviaQA and AlpacaEval. Knowledge sets use accuracy and the open sets use a model score.

Released with Baichuan-Omni-1.5. Labs report the five subsets separately.

Made by
Baichuan
Released
January 2025
Kind
Audio understanding and voice
Level
Everyday
Scored
Graded by a model
Answers
Open-ended
Tasks
All public
Last in a launch post
October 2025, dropped before it saturated
Last model added
October 2025
2
Models scored in lab cards
2
Launch posts list it, from 2 labs
2
System cards report it, from 2 labs

LongCat-Flash-Omni leads with 80.1%

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.

  1. 1 LongCat-Flash-Omni 80.1%
  2. 2 Kimi-Audio-7B-Instruct 69.1%

Source: Labs’ model cards

#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 LongCat-Flash-Omni 80.1% Oct 2025 Lab model card
2 Kimi-Audio-7B-Instruct 69.1% Apr 2025 Lab model card

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%) LongCat-Flash-Omni Kimi-Audio-7B-Instruct 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2025 2026 Near the ceiling (85%) LongCat-Flash-Omni Kimi-Audio-7B-Instruct

Source: Labs’ model cards

No launch post has listed it since October 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.

Moonshot AI
Meituan
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
Oct 31, 2025 LongCat-Flash-Omni 80.1 Mean of OpenAudioBench LlamaQuestions 83.33 / ReasoningQA 79.71 / TriviaQA 86.20 / Webquestions 76.00 / AlpacaEval 75.43
Apr 25, 2025 Kimi-Audio-7B-Instruct 69.1 Mean of OpenAudioBench AlpacaEval 75.73 / Llama Questions 79.33 / Reasoning QA 58.02 / TriviaQA 62.10 / Web Questions 70.20

2 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
Oct 31, 2025 LongCat-Flash-Omni technical report OpenAudioBench LlamaQuestions 83.33, ReasoningQA 79.71, TriviaQA 86.20, Webquestions 76.00, AlpacaEval 75.43, no overall score (Table 11) Capabilities
Apr 25, 2025 Kimi-Audio-7B-Instruct technical report OpenAudioBench AlpacaEval 75.73, Llama Questions 79.33, Reasoning QA 58.02, TriviaQA 62.10, Web Questions 70.20, no overall score (Table 6) Capabilities

More in Audio and video

All 233 in Audio and video
  • Video-MMMU In use 300 expert-level lecture videos with questions testing perception, comprehension and adaptation of knowledge. Accuracy. Qwen 3.8 Max 88.7%
  • LVBench In use Hours-long video understanding with multiple-choice questions on reasoning, grounding and summarization. Gemini 4 Argon 91.7%
  • MMVU In use 3,000 expert-annotated questions on videos across 27 disciplines. Multiple-choice and open-ended accuracy. Qwen 3.8 Max 82.4%
  • MLVU In use Multi-task long video understanding (minutes to hours) with multiple-choice and generation tasks. Accuracy. Qwen 3.8 Max 90.8%
  • FLEURS In use Models transcribe read speech in 102 languages built from FLoRes-101 sentences. Model cards usually report word error rate, so lower scores are better. Phi-4-multimodal 4.00%
  • VoiceBench In use Spoken instructions with speaker, environment and content variation. Voice assistant responses scored by GPT judge or rules. Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus 93.1%