German Language LLM Index
a PeerBench project

German LLM Benchmark · Model Profile

Qwen3.8 Flash

Alibaba⚠️ open weights · restrictive licenceprovider-internalrun 2026-10-15
1579

Elo

#10 among open-weights models

Benchmark breakdown

GermEval

79.1%

n=1024

Native German named-entity recognition — identify persons, locations, organisations and misc entities in German text, emitted as JSON. Scored with seqeval micro-F1 excluding the noisy MISC class. Run reasoning-off.

Named-entity recognitionnative · Native German
via GermEval (via EuroEval) ↗ View run details →

INCLUDE

89.7%

n=107

Native German exam and licensing questions covering region-specific knowledge — history, law, civics and culture. Written by humans in German, not translated.

4-option multiple choicenative · Native German
via CohereLabs/include-base-44 ↗ View run details →

MMLU-ProX

80.8%

Hard academic questions across 14 subjects — STEM, law, health, economics, philosophy and more. Professionally translated to German, with up to ten answer options per question.

10-option multiple choicetranslated · Professional translationpreliminary
via li-lab/MMLU-ProX ↗

SB10K

62.5%

n=1024

Native German social-media sentiment classification — positive, neutral or negative. Human-annotated German text, not translated. Run reasoning-off; headline score is MCC on the predicted label.

3-class sentimentnative · Native German
via SB10K (via EuroEval) ↗ View run details →

ScaLA

67.6%

n=2048

Native German linguistic acceptability — does the sentence read as grammatical German (ja / nein)? Built from clean vs. minimally-corrupted German sentences. Run reasoning-off.

Binary acceptabilitynative · Native German
via ScaLA-de (via EuroEval) ↗ View run details →

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Cost & speed

$0.157per 1,000 questions