🇳🇴 Best AI for Norwegian
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- Best overall: gpt-6-astra. Statistically close: gpt-6.1-sol.
- Best open-weight (self-host / cheap): zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash (rank score 1.24).
- Best for writing (summaries + grammar, top 40 models): gemini/gemini-3-pro-preview (61.83).
- Translation & agent tasks: no per-model Norwegian benchmark data yet in EuroEval's public generative board, so we don't rank them. See gaps.
| # | Model | Rank score ↓ | Writing ↑ | Understanding ↑ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gpt-6-astra | 1.16 | 61.64 | 83.88 |
| 2 | gpt-6.1-sol | 1.18 | 61.7 | 84.03 |
| 3 | gemini/gemini-3-pro-preview | 1.22 | 61.83 | 84.4 |
| 4 | gemini/gemini-3.7-flash | 1.22 | 56.89 | 85.81 |
| 5 | zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash open | 1.24 | 58.16 | 77.11 |
| 6 | deepseek/deepseek-flash#no-thinking | 1.27 | 55.11 | 77.66 |
| 7 | gpt-6-sol | 1.27 | 58.08 | 79.45 |
| 8 | gemini/gemini-3.6-flash | 1.29 | 56.0 | 84.3 |
| 9 | gpt-5.6-sol | 1.31 | 53.89 | 80.59 |
| 10 | gemini/gemini-3-flash-preview#no-thinking | 1.33 | 60.34 | 80.19 |
| 11 | gpt-5.6-terra | 1.35 | 54.12 | 78.81 |
| 12 | google/gemma-4-31B-it open | 1.35 | 56.79 | 71.54 |
| 13 | gemini/gemini-3-flash-preview#thinking | 1.38 | 53.76 | 81.41 |
| 14 | openai/gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17#high | 1.38 | 52.39 | 78.43 |
| 15 | deepseek/deepseek-flash#low | 1.39 | 55.32 | 80.89 |
Source: EuroEval Norwegian generative leaderboard, retrieved 2026-10-15. 212 models evaluated. Datasets: idioms_no, no_sammendrag, nor_common_sense_qa, norec, norne_nb, norne_nn, norquad, nrk_quiz_qa, scala_nb, scala_nn. Also see NorEval (University of Oslo; Bokmål + Nynorsk, base models).
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