Swallow - Japanese MT-Bench - Writing: leaderboard

From the Swallow LLM Leaderboard: Japanese MT-Bench (Nejumi edition, v4 questions with corrected v2 reference answers), two-turn dialogues graded by GPT-5.2 against references; normalized 0-1 upstream, shown as 0-100, higher is better. This board covers the Writing category: blog posts, emails and fiction.

Metric: Judge Score (normalized, %). Source: swallow-llm.github.io. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 68 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-5.4 (2026-03-05) (Medium)80.4#63 (GPT-5.4 (2026-03-05))
2GPT-5 (Medium)78.1#105 (GPT-5)
3GPT-5 Mini (2025-08-07) (Medium)77.7#175 (GPT-5 Mini (2025-08-07))
4Gemma 4 31B (IT) (Thinking)74.8#178 (Gemma 4 31B (IT))
5O3 (2025-04-16) (Medium)74.7#125 (O3 (2025-04-16))
6gemma-4-26B-A4B-it (Thinking)74.5
7GPT-4.172.5#258
8Qwen 3 235B A22B 2507 Instruct71.7#315
9GPT-OSS-Swallow-120B-RL-v0.1 (Thinking)70.7#309 (GPT-OSS-Swallow-120B-RL-v0.1)
10Qwen 3.5 27B (Thinking)70.2#192 (Qwen 3.5 27B)
11Gemma 4 E4B (IT) (Thinking)69.7
12O3 Mini (Medium)69.4#282 (O3 Mini)
13Gemma 4 E2B (IT) (Thinking)69.2#779 (Gemma 4 E2B (IT))
14Qwen 3 235B A22B 2507 (Thinking)68.5#263
15GPT-OSS-120B (Medium)68#346 (GPT-OSS-120B)

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=swallow-japanese-mt-bench-writing · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-05.