Qwen3-VL-8B vs GPT-5.1 (Medium)
Head-to-head OCR comparison · 106 battles · Updated February 2, 2026
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.