AfriScience-MT (Zero-Shot) - Northern Sotho to English: leaderboard
Zero-shot sentence-level translation of scientific summaries from Northern Sotho into English on the AfriScience-MT test split (Abdulmumin et al., 2026). SSA-COMET, the African-language-tuned COMET, on a 0-100 scale; higher is better.
Metric: SSA-COMET (0-100; sentence-level nso->eng on the test split; zero-shot). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 15 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.4 | 69.5 | #121 |
| 2 | GPT-4o | 62 | #741 |
| 3 | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite | 60.2 | #363 |
| 4 | Gemini 1.5 Flash | 59.8 | #1671 |
| 5 | Gemma 2 9B (IT) | 42.7 | #2275 |
| 6 | Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | 41 | #4277 |
| 7 | Tiny Aya Global | 36.9 | #6489 |
No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=afriscience-mt-zero-shot-northern-sotho-to-english · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.