Swallow - Pre-trained English - SQuAD2: leaderboard

From the Swallow LLM Leaderboard (Institute of Science Tokyo) pre-trained English board, which evaluates base models without post-training. SQuAD 2.0 reading comprehension including unanswerable questions, 4-shot; metric is best exact match. Upstream publishes 0-1 scores; shown as 0-100, higher is better.

Metric: Exact Match (%). Source: swallow-llm.github.io. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 50 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Qwen 2.5 72B69.3#512
2sarashina2-70B67.5#586
3Qwen3-14B-Base66.9#628
4Qwen 2.5 32B66.8#544
5Qwen 2.5 14B63#716
6Qwen3-30B-A3B-Base61.9#597
7Qwen 2.5 7B61.8#895
8gemma-3-27B-pt61.8#505
9Llama 3.1 70B60.5#588
10Falcon3-10B-Base60.3#1187
11Qwen3-8B-Base60.2#626
12Qwen3-4B-Base58.8#880
13Gemma 2 27B54.9#803
14Llama 4 Scout Base54.8#708
15Qwen 2.5 3B54.1#1177

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=swallow-pre-trained-english-squad2 · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-05.