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languagebench

FAIR Forward / Datenlabor BMZ (GIZ)
open source / Overall score: 2.0

Auto-updating multilingual leaderboard and evaluation harness that tracks how well frontier language models perform in the world's languages, with a deliberate focus on low-resource ones. It runs seven tasks — translation both directions, classification, MMLU, ARC, TruthfulQA and MGSM — over a curated list of about forty hosted models via OpenRouter, drawing on FLORES+, Global-MMLU, AfriMMLU, AfriMGSM and Uhura-TruthfulQA and machine-translating the English-only sets where no native version exists. Results publish to a Hugging Face Space with a global proficiency map, and to two Hugging Face datasets holding the aggregated and per-sample tables.

Named the AI Language Proficiency Monitor in the 2025 paper and renamed languagebench since; the repository keeps the older evals-for-every-language name and the Space resolves under both. Built by the BMZ Data Lab with GIZ's FAIR Forward programme and DFKI. Verified 2026-09-10 via the repository, its license endpoint, the README, the Hugging Face Space and dataset APIs, and the arXiv abstract.

Openness

5 high confidence
5.0
license
MIT(OSI)
source
public(GitHub)
core-gated
ungated

MIT and fully public. The LICENSE body is the stock MIT text (copyright 2025 Datenlabor BMZ & GIZ & DFKI) with no appended terms. The evaluation pipeline, the FastAPI backend and the React frontend all ship in the one repository and the Hugging Face Space builds from it; the result tables publish as open datasets. No pricing, paid tier or license key appears anywhere in the repo.

Adoption

1 high confidence
1.0

There is no installable package — the product is a hosted leaderboard plus the pipeline behind it — so the measurable artifacts are the two Hugging Face result datasets the README names as the programmatic access path. They draw 102 downloads between them in the trailing 30 days, which bands at level 1. The other visible counts corroborate the band rather than move it: 21 GitHub stars and 2 forks on the repository, 26 likes on the Space.

Capability

3 medium confidence
3.0

The widest language coverage of any harness in the category — up to 200 languages against EuroEval's 30+ — bought by a narrow task surface. Seven borrowed benchmarks at ten samples each, hosted API models only through a single router, no locally-run weights and no installable package, against EuroEval's encoders, decoders and encoder-decoders and its own reproducible dataset-creation scripts. Deep on one axis and thin on the rest in each direction, so level with EuroEval rather than a rung apart, and below the general-purpose harnesses at 4.

  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08538 recorded 2026-09-10

    "a comprehensive multilingual benchmark that systematically assesses LLM performance across up to 200 languages, with a particular focus on low-resource languages"; aggregates translation, question answering, math and reasoning over FLORES+, MMLU, GSM8K, TruthfulQA and ARC; "an open-source, auto-updating leaderboard and dashboard"; a global proficiency map and trends over time

  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/datenlabor-bmz/evals-for-every-language/main/notes/system-architecture-diagram.md recorded 2026-09-10

    seven task functions (translation_from/to with BLEU+ChrF, classification, mmlu, arc, truthfulqa, mgsm), a static curated list of ~42 models filtered to a default top 40 through OpenRouter, languages sorted by speaker count with a 1000-language default ceiling, 10 samples per model x language x task, and bootstrap confidence intervals on the aggregate

Verified 2026-09-10