SAHARA - Machine Translation (French to African): leaderboard
Machine translation from French into African languages (mt_fra2xx), from the SAHARA African-language LLM leaderboard (UBC-NLP, ACL 2025). The task score is the mean over the languages the task covers; spBLEU-1K on a 0-100 scale, higher is better. Absolute values are low.
Metric: spBLEU-1K. Source: huggingface.co. Saturation forecast: Around 2030. 48 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gemini 3 Pro (Preview) | 9.64 | #71 |
| 2 | Gemini 2.5 Pro | 8.43 | #159 |
| 3 | GPT-5.6 Luna | 6.04 | #79 |
| 4 | GPT-5 | 4.31 | #105 |
| 5 | GPT-5.1 (2025-11-13) | 4.29 | #107 |
| 6 | GPT-4.1 | 3.42 | #258 |
| 7 | Claude Sonnet 4 (20250514) | 3.41 | #223 |
| 8 | Claude Sonnet 4 | 3.29 | #207 |
| 9 | c4ai-command-a-03-2025 | 2.3 | #468 |
| 10 | Llama 4 Scout Instruct | 2.17 | #547 |
| 11 | Gemma 3 27B (IT) | 2.05 | #528 |
| 12 | Gemma 3 12B (IT) | 2.03 | #672 |
| 13 | Llama 3.1 70B Instruct | 1.93 | #567 |
| 14 | Qwen 3.6 35B A3B | 1.9 | #238 |
| 15 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | 1.87 | #541 |
No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=sahara-machine-translation-french-to-african · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-05.