Swallow - Post-trained Japanese - WMT20 Ja-En: leaderboard

From the Swallow LLM Leaderboard (Institute of Science Tokyo) post-trained Japanese board, which evaluates instruction-tuned and reasoning models with the Swallow evaluation harness. Japanese-to-English news translation from WMT20, zero-shot with a chain-of-thought prompt, scored with corpus BLEU (0-100, higher is better).

Metric: BLEU. Source: swallow-llm.github.io. Saturation forecast: Around 2031. 68 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-4o (2024-08-06)26.5#343
2gemma-4-26B-A4B-it (Thinking)26.1
3GPT-4.126#258
4Gemma 4 31B (IT) (Thinking)26#178 (Gemma 4 31B (IT))
5Llama-3.3-Swallow-70B-Instruct-v0.425.1#540
6GPT-5.4 (2026-03-05) (Medium)24.9#63 (GPT-5.4 (2026-03-05))
7Qwen 3.5 122B A10B (Thinking)24.7#184 (Qwen 3.5 122B A10B)
8Llama 3.3 70B Instruct24.6#541
9Qwen 3.5 27B (Thinking)24.1#192 (Qwen 3.5 27B)
10Qwen 3.5 35B A3B (Thinking)23.9#268 (Qwen 3.5 35B A3B)
11GPT-5 Mini (2025-08-07) (Medium)23.9#175 (GPT-5 Mini (2025-08-07))
12Gemma 3 27B (IT)23.8#528
13GPT-5 (Medium)23.6#105 (GPT-5)
14Llama 4 Scout Instruct23#547
15Qwen 3 235B A22B 2507 Instruct23#315

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=swallow-post-trained-japanese-wmt20-ja-en · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-05.