MS COCO (Common Objects in Context) ranks higher at 61/100 vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B at 21/100. Capability-level comparison backed by match graph evidence from real search data.
| Feature | Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B | MS COCO (Common Objects in Context) |
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| Type | Model | Dataset |
| UnfragileRank | 21/100 | 61/100 |
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| Quality | 0 | 1 |
| Ecosystem | 0 | 0 |
| Match Graph | 0 | 0 |
| Pricing | Paid | Free |
| Starting Price | $1.00e-7 per prompt token | — |
| Capabilities | 6 decomposed | 11 decomposed |
| Times Matched | 0 | 0 |
Generates coherent, contextually-aware text responses using a unified transformer architecture that processes both text and visual tokens through shared embedding spaces. The model uses a 9B-parameter efficient design with optimized attention mechanisms to balance reasoning depth with inference speed, enabling real-time text generation across diverse domains including open-ended conversation, instruction following, and knowledge synthesis.
Unique: Uses unified vision-language architecture in a 9B parameter model, enabling efficient multimodal processing without separate vision encoders — reduces model size and inference overhead compared to traditional dual-tower approaches while maintaining cross-modal reasoning capability
vs alternatives: Smaller and faster than Llama-2-70B with comparable reasoning quality, and more efficient than Mistral-7B due to optimized attention patterns, making it ideal for cost-sensitive production deployments
Analyzes images by encoding visual content into the same embedding space as text tokens, enabling the model to reason about image content, answer visual questions, and describe visual elements without separate vision encoders. The unified architecture processes image patches through the same transformer layers as text, allowing direct visual-semantic alignment and enabling tasks like OCR, object recognition, and visual reasoning in a single forward pass.
Unique: Unified vision-language design eliminates separate vision encoder bottleneck — visual tokens flow directly through the same transformer layers as text, enabling tighter visual-semantic coupling and reducing model size compared to dual-tower architectures like CLIP + LLM
vs alternatives: More efficient than GPT-4V for image analysis due to smaller parameter count and unified processing, while maintaining competitive visual reasoning through shared embedding space rather than separate vision models
Generates syntactically correct, executable code across multiple programming languages using transformer-based sequence-to-sequence patterns optimized for code structure and semantics. The model leverages training on large code corpora to understand programming patterns, APIs, and best practices, enabling both standalone code generation from natural language specifications and code completion in context. The 9B architecture balances code quality with inference speed suitable for real-time IDE integration or API-based code services.
Unique: Unified multimodal architecture enables code generation with visual context awareness — can generate code that processes or analyzes images, combining visual understanding with code synthesis in a single model rather than chaining separate vision and code models
vs alternatives: More efficient than Codex or specialized code models due to smaller parameter count, while maintaining competitive code quality through domain-specific training; faster inference than larger models makes it suitable for real-time IDE integration
Generates text output in a streaming fashion, returning tokens incrementally as they are produced by the model rather than waiting for full completion. This capability is implemented through OpenRouter's streaming API interface, enabling real-time display of generated content and reducing perceived latency in user-facing applications. The streaming mechanism allows clients to process tokens as they arrive, enabling early stopping, dynamic prompt adjustment, or progressive rendering of long-form content.
Unique: Streaming implementation via OpenRouter abstracts underlying model serving infrastructure — clients receive tokens through standard HTTP streaming without managing connection pooling or load balancing, enabling simple integration with web frameworks
vs alternatives: Simpler to implement than self-hosted streaming (no infrastructure management), while maintaining lower latency than non-streaming APIs for user-facing applications
Follows natural language instructions to adapt behavior for specific tasks, domains, or output formats without requiring model fine-tuning or retraining. The model uses instruction-tuning patterns learned during training to interpret task descriptions, output format specifications, and domain-specific constraints, enabling single-model deployment across diverse use cases. This capability leverages in-context learning where the model adjusts its reasoning and generation patterns based on explicit instructions in the prompt.
Unique: Unified multimodal instruction-following enables visual + textual task specification — can follow instructions that reference both image content and text requirements (e.g., 'extract text from this image and format as JSON'), reducing need for separate vision and language instruction models
vs alternatives: More flexible than task-specific fine-tuned models because instruction changes don't require retraining, while maintaining competitive task performance through instruction-tuning during pretraining
Solves mathematical problems, performs symbolic reasoning, and generates step-by-step solutions using transformer-based pattern matching on mathematical expressions and logical structures. The model recognizes mathematical notation, applies algebraic rules, and chains reasoning steps to solve equations, prove theorems, or analyze mathematical relationships. This capability is enabled through training on mathematical corpora and instruction-tuning for reasoning tasks, allowing the model to handle both symbolic manipulation and numerical computation.
Unique: Unified architecture enables mathematical reasoning with visual context — can solve problems involving diagrams, charts, or visual representations of mathematical concepts, combining visual understanding with symbolic reasoning in a single forward pass
vs alternatives: More efficient than GPT-4 for mathematical reasoning due to smaller parameter count, while maintaining competitive performance through specialized instruction-tuning; faster inference makes it suitable for real-time educational applications
Provides 2.5 million manually-annotated object instances across 330,000 images with dual segmentation encoding: polygon coordinates for precise boundary definition and RLE (run-length encoding) for efficient storage and computation. Each instance includes bounding box coordinates in [x, y, width, height] format, category label from 80 object classes, and instance-level unique identifiers enabling per-object tracking and evaluation. Annotations are structured in JSON format with hierarchical organization linking images to annotations to categories, supporting both dense object scenes and sparse single-object images.
Unique: Dual segmentation encoding (polygon + RLE) in single dataset enables both precise boundary analysis and efficient computational workflows; 2.5M instances across 330K images provides scale unmatched by contemporaneous datasets (ImageNet had ~1.2M images, PASCAL VOC had ~11K images)
vs alternatives: Larger and more densely annotated than PASCAL VOC (11K images, ~6 objects/image) and more task-diverse than ImageNet (classification-only); RLE encoding enables 10-100x faster mask loading than polygon-only formats
Provides keypoint annotations for all people in images using a standardized 17-joint skeleton model (head, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees, ankles) with (x, y, visibility) tuples per joint. Visibility flag indicates whether keypoint is annotated (1), occluded (0), or outside image bounds (0). Keypoints are linked to parent person instances via instance ID, enabling pose estimation evaluation at both individual and crowd-level scales. Annotations follow COCO Keypoints task specification with consistent coordinate system across all 330K images.
Unique: Standardized 17-joint skeleton with explicit visibility flags enables robust evaluation of pose estimation under occlusion; linked to instance segmentation masks allows joint-level accuracy analysis within person bounding boxes
MS COCO (Common Objects in Context) scores higher at 61/100 vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B at 21/100. MS COCO (Common Objects in Context) also has a free tier, making it more accessible.
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vs alternatives: More comprehensive than OpenPose dataset (no visibility flags) and larger scale than Human3.6M (3.6M frames vs 330K images); visibility annotations enable explicit occlusion handling unlike MPII (which lacks visibility metadata)
COCO ecosystem includes community-created extensions (COCO-Stuff, COCO DensePose, COCO Panoptic) that extend base dataset with additional annotations while maintaining compatibility with COCO API and evaluation infrastructure. Extensions follow COCO format and evaluation standards, enabling seamless integration into existing pipelines. Community contributions are vetted and published as official COCO variants, ensuring quality and standardization. Variant creation process is documented, enabling researchers to create custom extensions.
Unique: Standardized extension process enables community contributions while maintaining compatibility; official variants (Stuff, DensePose, Panoptic) are vetted and published, ensuring quality and discoverability
vs alternatives: More extensible than fixed datasets; community variants enable specialized use cases without forking; standardized format prevents fragmentation unlike ad-hoc dataset variants
Provides 1.65 million image-caption pairs (5 captions × 330K images) with natural language descriptions written by human annotators. Each caption is a free-form English sentence describing objects, actions, and scene context without enforced length limits or structured templates. Captions are stored in JSON format linked to image IDs, enabling training of vision-language models for image captioning, visual question answering, and cross-modal retrieval. Multiple captions per image capture linguistic diversity and alternative descriptions of the same visual content.
Unique: 5 captions per image (vs 1 in most datasets) captures linguistic diversity and enables robust evaluation of caption generation variability; 1.65M caption-image pairs provide scale for training large vision-language models
vs alternatives: 5x more captions per image than Flickr30K (1 caption/image) enabling better linguistic diversity modeling; larger scale than Visual Genome (108K images) while maintaining natural language quality vs automated alt-text
Extends base 80 object categories with 91 additional 'stuff' categories (background materials, textures, regions like sky, grass, wall) enabling dense semantic segmentation of entire images. Stuff categories are annotated as pixel-level masks without instance boundaries — all sky pixels are labeled 'sky' regardless of continuity. COCO-Stuff combines instance segmentation (80 objects) with semantic segmentation (171 total categories including stuff), stored as single-channel PNG masks where pixel value encodes category ID. Enables panoptic segmentation evaluation combining instance and stuff predictions.
Unique: 171-category taxonomy combining 80 instance objects + 91 stuff categories enables panoptic segmentation in single dataset; pixel-level masks for stuff enable dense scene understanding without instance boundaries
vs alternatives: More comprehensive than ADE20K (150 categories) and larger scale than Cityscapes (5K images); unified instance+stuff annotation enables panoptic evaluation unlike separate semantic/instance datasets
Combines instance segmentation (80 object categories with boundaries) and semantic segmentation (171 stuff categories without boundaries) into single panoptic prediction task. Evaluation uses Panoptic Quality (PQ) metric decomposed into Segmentation Quality (SQ — IoU of matched predictions) and Recognition Quality (RQ — detection rate). Panoptic masks encode both category ID and instance ID, enabling evaluation of both 'what' (category) and 'which' (instance identity) predictions. Standardized evaluation protocol with server-side metric computation ensures consistent benchmarking across submissions.
Unique: Panoptic Quality metric with explicit SQ/RQ decomposition enables fine-grained analysis of segmentation vs recognition errors; unified instance+stuff evaluation in single task forces models to handle both prediction types efficiently
vs alternatives: More comprehensive than separate instance/semantic benchmarks; PQ metric better captures real-world scene understanding than independent metrics; standardized evaluation prevents metric gaming unlike custom evaluation scripts
Provides dense 2D-to-3D correspondence maps for human bodies, mapping each pixel in a person instance to a 3D human body model surface. Annotations include UV coordinates (parameterization of 3D body surface) and body part indices enabling pixel-level body surface understanding. DensePose enables training of models that predict where each image pixel corresponds to on a canonical 3D human body, useful for pose transfer, virtual try-on, and detailed human understanding. Available from 2020 dataset version onwards, extends keypoint annotations with dense surface coverage.
Unique: Dense 2D-to-3D surface correspondence enables pixel-level body understanding beyond skeleton keypoints; UV parameterization allows transfer of appearance and shape across different people and poses
vs alternatives: More detailed than keypoint-only annotations (17 joints vs millions of surface points); enables pose transfer unlike keypoint datasets; larger scale than DensePose-specific datasets
Provides standardized evaluation metrics for each task (Average Precision for detection, IoU for segmentation, OKS for keypoints, BLEU/METEOR/CIDEr for captions, PQ for panoptic) computed server-side on held-out test set. Leaderboard system accepts structured JSON result submissions in COCO format, validates format, computes metrics, and ranks submissions by primary metric. Evaluation infrastructure ensures consistent benchmarking across all submissions and prevents metric gaming through standardized computation. Metrics are task-specific: AP/AP50/AP75 for detection, mIoU for segmentation, OKS for keypoints, CIDEr for captions.
Unique: Server-side metric computation prevents metric gaming and ensures consistency; task-specific metrics (AP, OKS, CIDEr, PQ) are standardized across all submissions enabling fair comparison; public leaderboard provides transparency and reproducibility
vs alternatives: More rigorous than self-reported metrics (prevents cherry-picking); standardized evaluation prevents metric implementation variations unlike custom evaluation scripts; public leaderboard enables community comparison unlike proprietary benchmarks
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