SEA-HELM (Vietnamese): leaderboard

AI Singapore’s SEA-HELM restricted to Vietnamese: 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

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Qwen 3.5 122B A10B (Reasoning)76.39#173 (Qwen 3.5 122B A10B)
2Qwen 3.5 27B (Reasoning)76.27#187 (Qwen 3.5 27B)
3Qwen 3.6 27B (Reasoning)76.12#170 (Qwen 3.6 27B)
4Qwen 3.6 35B A3B (Reasoning)76.11#226 (Qwen 3.6 35B A3B)
5Gemma 4 26B A4B (IT) (Reasoning)75.33#297 (Gemma 4 26B A4B (IT))
6Qwen 3.5 35B A3B (Reasoning)75#256 (Qwen 3.5 35B A3B)
7Qwen 3.5 9B (Reasoning)71.93#379 (Qwen 3.5 9B)
8Qwen 3 VL 32B Instruct70.88#283
9Llama-SEA-LION-v3-70B-IT70.77#402
10Qwen 3 32B (Thinking)70.73#443 (Qwen 3 32B)
11GPT-OSS-120B (Reasoning)69.81#341 (GPT-OSS-120B)
12Qwen 3 14B (Reasoning)69.07#537 (Qwen 3 14B)
13Qwen 3.5 4B (Reasoning)68.97#475 (Qwen 3.5 4B)
14Llama 3.3 70B Instruct68.35#534
15Qwen 3 8B (Thinking)68.17#674 (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-vietnamese · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-20.