Swallow - Pre-trained Japanese - NIILC: leaderboard

From the Swallow LLM Leaderboard (Institute of Science Tokyo) pre-trained Japanese board, which evaluates base models without post-training. NIILC open-ended encyclopedic question answering, 4-shot; metric is character-level F1. Upstream publishes 0-1 scores; shown as 0-100, higher is better.

Metric: Character F1 (%). Source: swallow-llm.github.io. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 50 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1sarashina2-70B66.8#586
2sarashina2-13B66.1#898
3plamo-2-8B65.5#839
4llm-jp-3-13B64.9#1176
5sarashina2.2-3B64.2#766
6sarashina2-7B63.4#1134
7gemma-3-27B-pt62.7#505
8Qwen 2.5 72B61.9#512
9Llama 4 Scout Base61.6#708
10Llama 3.1 70B60.3#588
11llm-jp-3-7.2B60.1#1222
12Gemma 2 27B57.3#803
13gemma-3-12B-pt56.9#686
14llm-jp-3-3.7B54.1#1407
15Qwen 2.5 32B53.8#544

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-japanese-niilc · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-05.