# CLIPScore

CLIPScore is an AI benchmark; this page records what it measures and traces its data, grader, and scores to primary sources.

Measures image-caption compatibility without requiring reference captions by comparing CLIP embeddings.

## Details

- Address: Online, Global
- Website: [github.com/jmhessel/clipscore](<https://github.com/jmhessel/clipscore>)
- Tags: Science, Helpful
- Category: Multimodal
- Status: Active
- Data licence: MIT
- Data access: none
- Grader: exact
- Organization: Allen Institute for AI
- Released: 2021-04
- Paper: [arxiv.org/abs/2104.08718](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.08718>)
- Repository: [github.com/jmhessel/clipscore](<https://github.com/jmhessel/clipscore>)
- Top-score provenance: unknown
- ABI family: No

## Questions

### Where is CLIPScore?

CLIPScore is at Online, Global.

### How do I contact CLIPScore?

To contact CLIPScore, visit https://github.com/jmhessel/clipscore.

## Source

From [Benchmark primary sources](https://aibenchmarkindex.com/about), license CC0-1.0, checked 2026-10-15.

Last updated October 15, 2026.

## Links

- This benchmark on the [web page](<https://aibenchmarkindex.com/global/online/clipscore>)
- [Multimodal in Online](<https://aibenchmarkindex.com/global/online/category/multimodal.md>)
- [More benchmarks in Online](<https://aibenchmarkindex.com/global/online.md>)

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