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Qwen3-VL-8B vs GPT-5.1 (Medium)

Head-to-head OCR comparison · 106 battles · Updated February 2, 2026

GPT-5.1 (Medium)
Qwen3-VL-8B
Matchup68.9%(73W-33L)31.1%(33W-73L)
Overall53.5%(1082W-729L)36.3%(620W-922L)
ELO15481428
Rank#7#16

In head-to-head OCR battles, GPT-5.1 (Medium) outperforms Qwen3-VL-8B with a 68.9% win rate across 106 matchups. GPT-5.1 (Medium) currently ranks #7 on the OCR Arena leaderboard with an ELO rating of 1548, while Qwen3-VL-8B holds position #16 with an ELO of 1428. These rankings are based on blind community voting where users compare OCR outputs without knowing which model produced each result.

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