Benchmark profile
Multimodal Multi-disciplinary Video Understanding (MMVU)
A benchmark for evaluating multimodal models on video understanding tasks across multiple disciplines, emphasizing temporal reasoning and comprehension over video content.
Data verifiedBenchmark score on MMVU — July 23, 2026
BenchLM mirrors the published score view for MMVU. Kimi K2.5 leads the public snapshot at 80.4% , followed by Qwen3.5-122B-A10B (74.7%) and Qwen3.5-27B (73.3%). BenchLM does not use these results to rank models overall.
Kimi K2.5
Moonshot AI
kimi-k2-5
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
Alibaba
qwen3-5-122b-a10b
Qwen3.5-27B
Alibaba
qwen3-5-27b
Benchmark score table (4 models)
ScoreThe published MMVU snapshot places Kimi K2.5 first at 80.4%. The third row is 7.1 points behind. The broader top-10 range is 8.1 points, so many of the published results sit in a relatively narrow band.
4 models have been evaluated on MMVU. The benchmark falls in the Multimodal & Grounded category. This category carries a 12% weight in BenchLM.ai's overall scoring system. MMVU is currently displayed for reference but excluded from the scoring formula, so it does not directly affect overall rankings.
About MMVU
Year
2026
Tasks
Video understanding
Format
Video reasoning benchmark
Difficulty
Multi-disciplinary multimodal video reasoning
MMVU is a useful video-understanding benchmark for BenchLM because it appears in frontier provider tables and complements Video-MME with a more discipline-oriented video reasoning slice.
BenchLM freshness & provenance
Version
MMVU 2026
Refresh cadence
Quarterly
Staleness state
Current
Question availability
Public benchmark set
BenchLM uses freshness metadata to decide whether a benchmark should still be treated as a strong differentiator, a benchmark to watch, or a display-only reference. For the full scoring policy, see the BenchLM methodology page.
FAQ
What does MMVU measure?
A benchmark for evaluating multimodal models on video understanding tasks across multiple disciplines, emphasizing temporal reasoning and comprehension over video content.
Which model scores highest on MMVU?
Kimi K2.5 by Moonshot AI currently leads with a score of 80.4% on MMVU.
How many models are evaluated on MMVU?
4 AI models have been evaluated on MMVU on BenchLM.
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