SEA-HELM (Tamil): leaderboard
AI Singapore’s SEA-HELM restricted to Tamil: the mean over its natural-language understanding, generation, reasoning, instruction-following and cultural tasks in that language. SEA-HELM exists because Southeast Asian languages are where English-first models lose the most, and the per-language boards are where that shows.
Metric: Normalized Score. Source: leaderboard.sea-lion.ai. Saturation forecast: Around January 2027. 58 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qwen 3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning) | 75.69 | #226 (Qwen 3.6 35B A3B) |
| 2 | Gemma 4 26B A4B (IT) (Reasoning) | 75.68 | #297 (Gemma 4 26B A4B (IT)) |
| 3 | Qwen 3.6 27B (Reasoning) | 75.32 | #170 (Qwen 3.6 27B) |
| 4 | Qwen 3.5 35B A3B (Reasoning) | 74.76 | #256 (Qwen 3.5 35B A3B) |
| 5 | Qwen 3.5 27B (Reasoning) | 74.71 | #187 (Qwen 3.5 27B) |
| 6 | Qwen 3.5 122B A10B (Reasoning) | 74.71 | #173 (Qwen 3.5 122B A10B) |
| 7 | Qwen 3.5 9B (Reasoning) | 70.89 | #379 (Qwen 3.5 9B) |
| 8 | Qwen 3 32B (Thinking) | 69.22 | #443 (Qwen 3 32B) |
| 9 | Qwen 3 VL 32B Instruct | 66.7 | #283 |
| 10 | GPT-OSS-120B (Reasoning) | 66.05 | #341 (GPT-OSS-120B) |
| 11 | Qwen 3 14B (Reasoning) | 65.08 | #537 (Qwen 3 14B) |
| 12 | Gemma 3 12B (IT) | 63.84 | #664 |
| 13 | Llama 4 Scout Instruct | 63.63 | #539 |
| 14 | Qwen 3.5 4B (Reasoning) | 63.5 | #475 (Qwen 3.5 4B) |
| 15 | Gemma 3 27B (IT) | 62.12 | #523 |
No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=sea-helm-tamil · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-20.