Community-tested models

AI models tested for Arabic

Does it actually work for Saudi, Najdi, Hijazi or Gulf Arabic? Benchmarks rarely say. The community tests these models on real speech and text — and reports back.

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All licenses Apache 2.0 AudarAI Community License v1.0 CC-BY-NC-4.0 Gemma Terms of Use Llama 4 Community License MIT Proprietary (API only)TII Falcon LLM License

SILMA Kashif 2B

SILMA AI

LLM

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🇸🇦 Saudi-developedArabic: fullMSAaren

Compact model tuned for Arabic/English RAG question-answering and entity extraction. Gemma-derived, so it ships under the Gemma Terms of Use; GGUF and 4-bit builds are published alongside it.

Hugging Face

SILMA-9B-Instruct

SILMA AI

LLM

No evaluations yet

🇸🇦 Saudi-developedArabic: fullMSAaren

Gemma-based Arabic model that topped open Arabic rankings, outperforming much larger models. Because it is built on Gemma it inherits Google's Gemma Terms of Use rather than a standard open-source licence.

Hugging Face