SEA-HELM (Tamil) - NLU: leaderboard

SEA-HELM's natural language understanding competency for Tamil: combines its understanding tasks, such as question answering, sentiment analysis and reading comprehension. Normalized 0-100 score from AI Singapore's SEA-HELM leaderboard: (score - random baseline) / (maximum - baseline), floored at 0 and averaged over eight runs; higher is better.

Metric: Normalized Score. Source: leaderboard.sea-lion.ai. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 58 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Qwen 3.5 122B A10B (Reasoning)82.87#184 (Qwen 3.5 122B A10B)
2Qwen 3 14B (Reasoning)82.79#542 (Qwen 3 14B)
3Qwen 3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning)82.74#238 (Qwen 3.6 35B A3B)
4Llama 4 Scout Instruct82.72#547
5Qwen 3.6 27B (Reasoning)82.49#182 (Qwen 3.6 27B)
6Gemma 4 26B A4B (IT) (Reasoning)82.47#293 (Gemma 4 26B A4B (IT))
7Qwen 3.5 35B A3B (Reasoning)82.26#268 (Qwen 3.5 35B A3B)
8Qwen 3.5 27B (Reasoning)81.89#192 (Qwen 3.5 27B)
9Qwen 3 32B (Thinking)81.85#449 (Qwen 3 32B)
10Llama-SEA-LION-v3-70B-IT81.82#407
11Gemma 3 12B (IT)81.54#672
12Gemma 3 27B (IT)81.49#528
13Llama 3.3 70B Instruct81.38#541
14Qwen 3 8B (Thinking)81#678 (Qwen 3 8B)
15Qwen 3.5 9B (Reasoning)80.88#391 (Qwen 3.5 9B)

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-nlu · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-05.