Belebele

license

cc-by-sa-4.0(Covers the benchmark

access

public(Ungated on Hugging Face and as a zip from Meta's file server.)

dataset_card

present

The benchmark carries a share-alike license and downloads without a gate. The optional English training set assembled from other datasets is mostly non-commercial, but that part is not the benchmark.

• https://huggingface.co/api/datasets/facebook/belebele recorded 2026-09-24

  gated: false; license tag cc-by-sa-4.0.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/facebookresearch/belebele/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-24

  "The Belebele dataset is licensed under the license found in the LICENSE_CC-BY-SA4.0 file"; "The majority of the training set (data and code) is licensed under CC-BY-NC".

Hugging Face downloads over the trailing month for the Belebele repository. Downloads of the zip from Meta's file server are not counted.

• https://huggingface.co/api/datasets/facebook/belebele recorded 2026-09-24

  84563 downloads in the trailing 30 days for facebook/belebele

Belebele asks the same 900 questions in 122 language variants, so reading comprehension scores compare directly across languages, and no other open reading test here reaches that many. It is documented in its paper and ships as a task in EleutherAI's evaluation harness.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness/main/lm_eval/tasks/README.md recorded 2026-09-24

  Task table row: "belebele ... Language understanding tasks in a variety of languages and scripts ... Multiple (122 languages)".

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/facebookresearch/belebele/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-24

  "900 questions per language variant"; "122 language/language variants"; "900 x 122 = 109,800 total questions".