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WMT26 General Machine Translation (all languages) (WMT26)

Machine-translation quality on the WMT26 general translation task, averaged across all evaluated languages and scored 0-100 by an LLM judge.

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Benchmark score on WMT26 — September 15, 2026

We mirror the published score view for WMT26. North Small Translate leads the public snapshot at 83.6%. We do not use these results to rank models overall.

1 modelMultilingualCurrentDisplay onlyUpdated September 15, 2026

Benchmark score table (1 model)

Score
1
North Small TranslateCohere · Open weight
83.6%

About WMT26

Year

2026

Tasks

General-domain translation across 50+ languages (32 high-resource plus 18 additional)

Format

0-100 judged translation quality, averaged across languages

Difficulty

Professional machine translation

BenchLM currently stores provider-run WMT26 evaluations. Cohere's September 2026 run covers 50+ languages with GPT-5.6 Sol as the judge on a 0-100 scale, where 80-100 means perfect or minor errors. Because the judge, language set, and prompts are provider-chosen, rows stay display-only and are not directly comparable to official WMT human evaluations.

BenchLM freshness & provenance

Version

WMT26 2026

Refresh cadence

Quarterly

Staleness state

Current

Question availability

Public benchmark set

CurrentDisplay only

BenchLM uses freshness metadata to decide whether a benchmark should still be treated as a strong differentiator, a benchmark to watch, or a display-only reference. For the full scoring policy, see the BenchLM methodology page.

FAQ

What does WMT26 measure?

Machine-translation quality on the WMT26 general translation task, averaged across all evaluated languages and scored 0-100 by an LLM judge.

Which model scores highest on WMT26?

North Small Translate by Cohere currently leads with a score of 83.6% on WMT26.

How many models are evaluated on WMT26?

1 AI models have been evaluated on WMT26 on BenchLM.

Last updated: September 15, 2026 · BenchLM version WMT26 2026

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