SLM-RAG Arena — leaderboard
Metric: Elo Rating. Source: huggingface.co. 17 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | EXAONE-3.5-2.4B-Instruct | 1567.2 |
| 2 | Phi-4 Mini Instruct | 1533.6 |
| 3 | Qwen 2.5 3B Instruct | 1502.4 |
| 4 | Gemma 3 4B (IT) | 1498.3 |
| 5 | SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct | 1493.2 |
| 6 | Gemma 2 2B (IT) | 1491.9 |
| 7 | Qwen 3 4B | 1483.2 |
| 8 | Llama 3.2 1B Instruct | 1469.4 |
| 9 | Qwen 3 0.6B | 1455.9 |
| 10 | Qwen 2.5 1.5B Instruct | 1455.1 |
| 11 | Qwen 3 1.7B | 1454.8 |
| 12 | Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | 1435.8 |
| 13 | Gemma 3 1B (IT) | 1421.5 |
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=slm-rag-arena · How the rankings work · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-07-22.