multimodal benchmark
MMAU Music Leaderboard
A subset of the MMAU benchmark focused specifically on music understanding and reasoning tasks. Part of a comprehensive multimodal audio understanding benchmark that evaluates models on expert-level knowledge and complex reasoning across music audio clips.
Updated Aug 17, 2026
Models1
Model coverage1
MetricScore
EvidenceB
MMAU Music Ranking
Higher score ranks better on this benchmark.
Sort by
Rank | Model | Score | Percentile | Participants | Evidence | Evaluated |
|---|
| Rank01 | ModelAC | Score69.2% | Percentile100.0% | Participants1 | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
MMAU Music Highlights
The leading models and scores on this benchmark.
The Top AI Models for MMAU Music
The first five results on this benchmark, with official price and output speed added where the model identity can be matched.
Ranking basisThis mmau music AI model leaderboard uses descending score in the benchmark's original unit. The leaderboard ranking keeps matched price and speed data separate from benchmark evidence.
- 01ACQwen2.5-Omni-7BAlibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
- Score
- 69.2%
- 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 MMAU Music, not total model capability
Selection summary
Best AI Models for MMAU Music
Qwen2.5-Omni-7B currently leads MMAU Music with 69.2%. 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 MMAU Music?
What MMAU Music measures and how its scores work.
A subset of the MMAU benchmark focused specifically on music understanding and reasoning tasks. Part of a comprehensive multimodal audio understanding benchmark that evaluates models on expert-level knowledge and complex reasoning across music audio clips.
Scores are shown in ratio. This benchmark is not independently verified and has an evidence level of B.
- Family
- MMAU Music
- Modality
- multimodal
- Primary category
- multimodal
- Score direction
- higher
- LLMBoard eligible
- No
- Evaluation key
- mmau-music|llm-stats-current
Benchmark scores retain their original unit. Overall score eligibility is shown separately.
FAQ
Common questions about MMAU Music.
Which model scores highest on MMAU Music?
Qwen2.5-Omni-7B is currently ranked first with 69.2%.
What does MMAU Music measure?
A subset of the MMAU benchmark focused specifically on music understanding and reasoning tasks. Part of a comprehensive multimodal audio understanding benchmark that evaluates models on expert-level knowledge and complex reasoning across music audio clips.
Is a higher score better?
Yes. Higher values rank better for this benchmark.
How many models are compared?
1 model results are currently shown.
Does this benchmark affect the overall score?
No. This benchmark is shown for reference but does not contribute to the overall score.