SEA-HELM (Tamil) - Question Answering: leaderboard

Extractive question answering over Tamil passages. 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 14B (Reasoning)72.39#542 (Qwen 3 14B)
2Qwen 3 VL 8B Instruct69.64#419
3Qwen 3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning)69.51#238 (Qwen 3.6 35B A3B)
4Qwen 3.6 27B (Reasoning)69.29#182 (Qwen 3.6 27B)
5Llama 4 Scout Instruct68.74#547
6Gemma 4 26B A4B (IT) (Reasoning)68.55#293 (Gemma 4 26B A4B (IT))
7Qwen 3.5 35B A3B (Reasoning)68.45#268 (Qwen 3.5 35B A3B)
8Qwen 3.5 122B A10B (Reasoning)68.42#184 (Qwen 3.5 122B A10B)
9Qwen 3 32B (Thinking)68.4#449 (Qwen 3 32B)
10Gemma 3 12B (IT)68.25#672
11Llama-SEA-LION-v3-70B-IT67.83#407
12Qwen 3.5 4B (Reasoning)67.5#514 (Qwen 3.5 4B)
13Qwen 3.5 27B (Reasoning)67.47#192 (Qwen 3.5 27B)
14Qwen 3.5 9B (Reasoning)67.37#391 (Qwen 3.5 9B)
15Qwen 3 8B (Thinking)67.32#678 (Qwen 3 8B)

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