Qwen3-VL-8B vs GPT-5 (Medium)
Head-to-head OCR comparison · 132 battles · Updated February 2, 2026
In head-to-head OCR battles, GPT-5 (Medium) outperforms Qwen3-VL-8B with a 57.6% win rate across 132 matchups. GPT-5 (Medium) currently ranks #10 on the OCR Arena leaderboard with an ELO rating of 1520, 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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