JP-TL-Bench - English to Japanese: leaderboard

English-to-Japanese half of JP-TL-Bench (Lin and Lensenmayer, Shisa.AI, 2026): 34 English source texts (15 Easy, 19 Hard) translated into Japanese, each output compared pairwise and reference-free against the frozen Base Set v1.0 anchor translations by gemini-2.5-flash at temperature 0. Bradley-Terry strength over all English-to-Japanese matches, mapped to a 0-10 LT score; higher is better.

Metric: LT Score (0-10; anchored pairwise Bradley-Terry vs 20 Base Set v1.0 anchors, gemini-2.5-flash judge). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 64 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 3 Pro (Preview)9.99#111
2Gemini 3 Flash (Preview)9.99#141
3Gemini 2.5 Pro9.97#262
4Gemini 2.5 Flash9.96#452
5DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus9.94#442
6GPT-OSS-120B9.86#699
7Kimi K2 09059.86#555
8Qwen 3 235B A22B 2507 Instruct9.85#619
9Gemma 3 27B (IT)9.69#1306
10GPT-4o (2024-08-06)9.61#731
11Qwen 3 30B A3B 2507 Instruct9.56#1078
12Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-25129.55#1595
13ABEJA-Qwen2.5-32B-Japanese-v1.09.07#1304
14ELYZA-Shortcut-1.0-Qwen-32B9.07#1420
15Llama-3.3-Swallow-70B-Instruct-v0.49.06#1312

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=jp-tl-bench-english-to-japanese · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.