BALSAM - Translation/Transliteration: leaderboard
BALSAM Arabic benchmark (SDAIA/KSAA, dataset version 2), Translation/Transliteration category: converting text between languages or dialects while preserving meaning. The site's overall score blends LLM-judged generated answers with multiple-choice answers across the category's tasks; 0-100, higher is better.
Metric: Overall score (0-100, LLM-judged generation and multiple choice). Source: benchmarks.ksaa.gov.sa. Saturation forecast: Around January 2028. 38 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GLM-5 (Thinking) | 70.18 | #149 (GLM-5) |
| 2 | GPT-5.2 | 68 | #115 |
| 3 | Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning) | 67 | #227 (Grok 4.1 Fast) |
| 4 | DeepSeek V3.2 | 65.16 | #210 |
| 5 | Command A 03 2025 | 64.95 | #530 |
| 6 | Kimi K2 Instruct (0905) | 63.73 | #267 |
| 7 | GLM-4.7 (Reasoning) | 63.61 | #202 (GLM-4.7) |
| 8 | Command-R+ | 63.49 | #869 |
| 9 | Fanar-C-2-27B | 63.16 | #637 |
| 10 | Qwen 3 235B A22B | 61.59 | #323 |
| 11 | Claude Opus 4.5 | 60.91 | #87 |
| 12 | AceGPT-v2-8B-Chat | 59.33 | #746 |
| 13 | GPT-OSS-120B (Reasoning) | 58.42 | #346 (GPT-OSS-120B) |
| 14 | Llama 4 Maverick Instruct | 57.69 | #467 |
| 15 | Nova Pro (v1) | 57.29 | #508 |
No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=balsam-translation-transliteration · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-05.