PaliBench: leaderboard

Digital humanities projects increasingly rely on machine translation and large language models to widen access to classical, religious, and otherwise under-translated textual traditions. Yet standard translation benchmarks are poorly suited to such materials: they typically compare a system output against a single reference translation, even though classical texts often support multiple faithful r

Metric: sim_best (self-reported). Source: benchmarklist.com. Saturation forecast: Around May 2027. 10 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 3 Pro94.6#80
2Gemini 3 Flash94.4#99
3Claude Opus 4.594#83
4DeepSeek V3.293.9#205
5Kimi K2.593.4#144
6GPT-5.293.3#110
7GLM-4.792#192
8Qwen 3 235B A22B91.8#313
9Grok 4.1 Fast91.5#217
10Llama 3.3 70B88.8#579

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=palibench · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-20.