multimodal benchmark
MusicCaps Leaderboard
MusicCaps is a multimodal dataset of 5,521 ten-second music clips from AudioSet, each paired with an English aspect list and a free-text caption written by musicians.
Updated Sep 5, 2026
Models1
Model coverage1
MetricScore
EvidenceB
MusicCaps Ranking
Higher score ranks better on this benchmark.
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Rank | Model | Score | Percentile | Participants | Evidence | Evaluated |
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| Rank01 | ModelAC | Score32.80% | Percentile100.00% | Participants1 | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
MusicCaps Highlights
The leading models and scores on this benchmark.
The Top AI Models for MusicCaps
The first five results on this benchmark, with official price and output speed added where the model identity can be matched.
Ranking basisThis musiccaps AI model leaderboard uses descending score in the benchmark original unit. The leaderboard ranking keeps matched price and speed data separate from benchmark evidence.
- 01ACAlibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
- Score
- 32.80%
- Price
- $0.10 input / $0.40 output per 1M tokens
Strengths
- Ranks #1 of 1 compared models
- 100th percentile on this benchmark
- C evidence result
Considerations
- This result measures MusicCaps, not total model capability
Selection summary
Best AI Models for MusicCaps
Qwen2.5-Omni-7B currently leads MusicCaps with 32.80%. It is the top model on this specific benchmark, while the best LLM for the broader task should also be checked against other benchmarks, price, and runtime.
Use this leaderboard with the supporting benchmark results and coverage details above. A leaderboard position summarizes the selected ranking signal; it does not replace workload-specific testing.
What is MusicCaps?
What MusicCaps measures and how its scores work.
MusicCaps is a multimodal dataset for research in music-text understanding and generation, containing music examples with textual descriptions of sonic qualities and musical elements.
It measures performance on music-text understanding and generation tasks using Score, reported as a ratio.
Scores are shown in ratio. This benchmark is not independently verified and has an evidence level of B.
- Family
- MusicCaps
- Modality
- multimodal
- Primary category
- multimodal
- Score direction
- higher
- LLMBoard eligible
- No
- Evaluation key
- overall
LLM Stats. Benchmark scores retain their original unit. Overall score eligibility is shown separately.
FAQ
Common questions about MusicCaps.
Which model scores highest on MusicCaps?
Qwen2.5-Omni-7B is currently ranked first with 32.80%.
What are the top three models on MusicCaps?
The current leaders are Qwen2.5-Omni-7B (32.80%).
Which MusicCaps model has the lowest official input price?
Qwen2.5-Omni-7B has the lowest matched official input price at $0.10 input / $0.40 output per 1M tokens.
Which models are fastest among MusicCaps results?
No matched runtime record is currently available.
Does the highest score result prove overall model quality?
No. This benchmark measures one defined capability or task. The overall LLMBoard score uses a separate aggregation across eligible benchmark evidence.