Use case

Best local LLM for translation

This page does not name a winner. The title is the job. You test the suggested models on your own prompts, then decide.

Routed with the catalog tag for translation.

Catalog label: translation. A catalog tag is a routing label, not a benchmark, and this site has no measured score for this job.

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Example prompts

• Translate this into Dutch and keep the product name in English: Your parcel arrives tomorrow between 09:00 and 12:00.
• Translate this customer sentence into English and keep the tone polite: Je bestelling is vertraagd door een ontbrekende handtekening.
• Give the same reply in English and in Dutch: we can exchange the item if you still have the receipt.

The compare page can drop one of these in with one click. They are starters, not a test set we scored.

Open models that carry this tag

Alphabetical. Order here is not a ranking. The compare suggester reorders them from your languages, context, privacy, and budget, and it says why.

• Gemma 3 12BCatalog tags: chat, translation, creative. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• Gemma 3 27BCatalog tags: rag, translation, creative. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• Gemma 3 4BCatalog tags: chat, translation. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• Ministral 3 14BCatalog tags: chat, translation. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• Ministral 3 3BCatalog tags: chat, translation. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• Mistral Small 3.2 24BCatalog tags: chat, translation, rag, code. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• Mistral Small 4Catalog tags: chat, code, reasoning, translation. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• Qwen2.5 72B InstructCatalog tags: translation, rag, code, reasoning. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• Qwen3 14BCatalog tags: code, translation, reasoning. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• Qwen3 235B A22BCatalog tags: chat, reasoning, translation. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• Qwen3 32BCatalog tags: code, reasoning, translation, rag. Routing labels, not benchmarks.

The compare also keeps one frontier reference, Claude Sonnet 5.5. It is not open weights, and it is not a hardware recommendation.

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