QIMMA - PALMX: leaderboard

PalmX multiple-choice questions on Arabic and Islamic culture, as run in the QIMMA Arabic leaderboard. Scored with LightEval log-likelihood over the answer options with character-length normalization rather than generated answers, so reasoning-tuned models can land near chance; accuracy 0-100, higher is better.

Metric: Accuracy (%, log-likelihood multiple choice). Source: huggingface.co. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 83 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Qwen 3.5 397B A17B83.91#154
2Jais-2-70B-Chat83.73#430
3Qwen 3.5 122B A10B81.46#184
4Gemma 4 31B81.23#212
5Qwen 3.5 35B A3B Base79.65#319
6Jais-2-8B-Chat78.98#802
7gemma-3-27B-pt78.62#505
8Llama 3.3 70B Instruct77.95#541
9Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct77.77#469
10ALLaM-7B-Instruct-preview76.84#724
11Gemma 4 26B A4B76.39#360
12AIC-176.11#235
13Qwen 3.5 27B75.93#192
14jais-adapted-70B-chat75.51#639
15AceGPT-v2-32B-Chat74.46#518

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=qimma-palmx · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-05.