North-Small-Translate-1.0

A person can use it to translate text between supported languages.

Availability

Gated access on Hugging Face (gated: auto)

Pricing model

Bring-your-own-license; active PitchBook license required

Deployment

Transformers model checkpoint

Privacy

Respects existing PitchBook and North entitlements and permissions

Licence

CC-BY-NC-4.0

• Achieves an aggregate WMT26 All Languages score of 83.60 on WMT benchmarks. ^[1]

  In WMT model evaluations, North Small Translate leads with an WMT26 All Languages benchmark score of 83.60, compared with 81.56 for Qwen 3.5 397B A17B, 76.50 for GLM 5.2 FP8, 81.37 for DeepL NextGen, 79.46 for Gemma 4 31B (on), and 68.20 for Google Translate.

• Supports translation for 50+ languages and performs strongly across high-resource and additional languages. ^[1]

  North Small Translate performs strongly across 32 high-resource languages and 18 additional languages.

• Offers an Agentic variant that scores 84.36 on the same WMT26 evaluation and can find and fix errors in translations. ^[1]

  North Small Translate (Agentic) — which can find errors and fix errors in translation — scores even higher, at 84.36.²

• Weights and a Hugging Face demo space are available for research and non-commercial use; downloadable in several near-lossless quantizations. ^[1]

  Visit Hugging Face to download the weights - available in several near-lossless quantizations - explore our HuggingFace space to demo the model, and read our implementation guides .

• Model size is 218B total with 25B active and supports 16k input and 16k output context lengths. ^[1]
• In internal tests, achieves up to 1.4x higher output throughput versus Gemma 4 31B (off) (112 vs. 81 TOPS at low concurrency). ^[1]

  In our testing, North Small Translate achieved up to 1.4x higher output throughput than Gemma 4 31B TP1 (1 x GPU) under identical concurrency levels and hardware configurations — 112 vs.

• Cohere reports an example commercial task cost of $0.000676 per task (80.1 score) when evaluating commercial licenses. ^[1]

  For enterprises evaluating commercial licenses of North Small Translate, benefit from a strong 80.1 score at just $0.000676 per task, using only 661 tokens on average.

• Commercial / enterprise access and managed deployment are available via RWS’s Language Weaver product. ^[1]

  For enterprises that need more than open-weight research access, security, scalability, and a dedicated translation and localization platform, North Small Translate, is available through RWS’s Language Weaver product.

• Users can describe workflow goals in plain language and connect their tech stack. ^[2]

  Use plain language to describe your goals and connect your tech stack.

• North Automations is available today to all North customers. ^[2]

  Automations is available today to all North customers.

• Users can choose the appropriate model at each step of a workflow. ^[2]

  Choose the appropriate model at each step of the process to balance cost with performance.

• Automations support loops, branching, scheduled runs, versioning, and testing before production. ^[2]
• North can be deployed across on-prem or cloud environments. ^[2]

  Deploy securely across any on-prem or cloud environment.

• North Automations can monitor automation usage and input and output tokens consumed. ^[2]

  Monitor input and output tokens consumed to manage costs.

• Users can combine PitchBook data with their organization's internal knowledge for questions, analyses, and drafts. ^[3]

  Ask questions, run analyses, and generate drafts that combine PitchBook data with your organization's internal knowledge.

• Every figure North pulls from PitchBook comes with citations. ^[3]

  Every figure North pulls from PitchBook comes with citations for quick human-in-the-loop verification.

• Admins can enable the connector from their organization's connector settings. ^[3]

  Admins can enable it from their organization's connector settings.

• The connector is available starting October 26, 2026 to North customers with an active PitchBook license and SSO enabled. ^[3]

  The PitchBook connector is available starting October 26, 2026 for North customers with an active PitchBook license and Single-Sign-On (SSO) enabled.

• Users can draw on PitchBook data about companies, deals, funds, investors, and market benchmarks. ^[3]

  With the PitchBook Premium Connector in North, users can draw on PitchBook's institutional-grade data on companies, deals, funds, investors, market benchmarks, and more.

• The connector respects the organization's existing PitchBook and North entitlements and permissions. ^[3]

  PitchBook in North is bring-your-own-license, and the connector respects the entitlements and permissions your organization already has in place across PitchBook and North.

• The model repository is public and uses automatic gating.
• The repository lists the CC-BY-NC-4.0 licence. ^[4]
• The repository is tagged for translation.
• The repository is tagged for conversational use.
• The repository lists English and multiple other languages, including Arabic, French, Japanese, and Chinese.

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