Sonnet 4.5 vs Qwen3-VL-8B

Head-to-head OCR comparison · 88 battles · Updated May 18, 2026

	Sonnet 4.5	Qwen3-VL-8B
Matchup	62.5%(55W-33L)	37.5%(33W-55L)
Overall	40.8%(710W-808L)	35.9%(693W-1046L)
ELO	1529	1482
Rank	#10	#14

In head-to-head OCR battles, Sonnet 4.5 outperforms Qwen3-VL-8B with a 62.5% win rate across 88 matchups. Sonnet 4.5 currently ranks #10 on the OCR Arena leaderboard with an ELO rating of 1529, while Qwen3-VL-8B holds position #14 with an ELO of 1482. These rankings are based on blind community voting where users compare OCR outputs without knowing which model produced each result.