Datasets & benchmarks

Arabic datasets, benchmarks and leaderboards for training and testing models.

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17 of 17 datasets

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QCRI
ArabicCulturalQA
Cultural QA benchmark
MSAEgyptianLevantineGulfMaghrebi
Cross-dialect Arabic cultural question-answering benchmark (multiple-choice and open-ended), post-edited by native speakers. Non-commercial licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
Open · Free
Documented repository availability
10 May 2026
Official source
Official source — huggingface.co (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)
Date source
Date source — huggingface.co (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)
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QCRI
MenaSpeechBank
Speech / conversational audio
MSAEgyptian
MENA-centric speech bank: 17,641 utterances, 26 hours, 123 speakers across Arabic dialects, MSA and English. Non-commercial licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
Open · Free
Documented repository availability
3 Feb 2026
Official source
Official source — huggingface.co (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)
Date source
Date source — huggingface.co (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)
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tiiuae
Alyah
Benchmark · 54 models tested
Gulf
Measures how well models handle the Emirati dialect.
Open · Free
Release / announcement
27 Jan 2026
Official source
Official source — huggingface.co (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)
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silma-ai
opensource-arabic-tts-benchmark
Benchmark
MSA
Open evaluation of Arabic text-to-speech models.
Open · Free
Documented repository availability
24 Jan 2026
Official source
Official source — huggingface.co (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)
Date source
Date source — huggingface.co (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)
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SWivid
Habibi
Speech dataset
Regional dialects
High-quality Arabic audio for training voice models.
Open · Open
Documented repository availability
21 Jan 2026
Official source
Official source — huggingface.co (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)
Date source
Date source — huggingface.co (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)
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stanford-crfm
HELM-Arabic
Leaderboard
MSA
Transparent, reproducible Arabic leaderboard built with Arabic.AI.
Open · Free
Release / announcement
18 Dec 2025
Official source
Official source — crfm.stanford.edu (opens in a new tab on crfm.stanford.edu)
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namaa-space
SAFIR
Benchmark
Gulf
Saudi Arabic task evaluation, part of the Saudi Dialect Hub.
Open · Free
Release / announcement
18 Nov 2025
Official source
Official source — huggingface.co (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)
Date source
Date source — linkedin.com (opens in a new tab on linkedin.com)
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ArabicNLP
AraHealthQA-2025
Benchmark
MSA
First shared task on Arabic health question answering.
Open · Free
Release / announcement
Nov 2025
Official source
Official source — underline.io (opens in a new tab on underline.io)
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ArabicNLP
AraGenEval
Benchmark
MSA
Arabic style transfer and AI-generated text detection.
Open · Free
Release / announcement
Nov 2025
Official source
Official source — underline.io (opens in a new tab on underline.io)
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ArabicNLP
ImageEval-2025
Benchmark
MSA
First Arabic image-captioning shared task.
Open · Free
Research paper published
Nov 2025
Official source
Official source — aclanthology.org (opens in a new tab on aclanthology.org)
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QCRI
QASR
Speech recognition
MSA
QCRI Al Jazeera speech corpus, about 2,000 hours of transcribed Arabic across dialects with code-switching. Non-commercial use only.
Open · Free
Documented repository availability
13 Oct 2025
Official source
Official source — huggingface.co (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)
Date source
Date source — huggingface.co (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)
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QCRI
MultiNativQA
Multilingual QA
MSA
Culturally aligned native question-answering across 7 languages, including MSA and six Arabic dialects. Non-commercial licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
Open · Free
Documented repository availability
8 Oct 2024
Official source
Official source — huggingface.co (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)
Date source
Date source — huggingface.co (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)
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QCRI
AraDiCE
Dialect & culture benchmark
MSAEgyptianLevantine
Benchmarks for dialectal and cultural abilities of LLMs in Arabic, post-edited from standard benchmarks. Non-commercial licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
Open · Free
Documented repository availability
19 Sep 2024
Official source
Official source — huggingface.co (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)
Date source
Date source — huggingface.co (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)
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OALL
Open-Arabic-LLM-Leaderboard
Leaderboard
MSA
Community ranking of open Arabic models by 2A2I, TII and Hugging Face.
Open · Free
Documented repository availability
14 May 2024
Official source
Official source — huggingface.co (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)
Date source
Date source — huggingface.co (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)
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ClusterLab
arabic-101b-words
Text corpus · 101B words
MSA
Curated Arabic text dataset for training language models.
Open · Open
News published
May 2024
Official source
Official source — middleeastainews.com (opens in a new tab on middleeastainews.com)
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QCRI
QADI
Dialect identification
Dialectal
QCRI Arabic Dialect Identification dataset: country-level Arabic dialects collected from Twitter.
Open · Free
Research paper published
19 Apr 2021
Official source
Official source — qcai.qcri.org (opens in a new tab on qcai.qcri.org)
Date source
Date source — aclanthology.org (opens in a new tab on aclanthology.org)
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mozilla
common-voice-ar
Speech dataset
Regional dialects
Community-recorded Arabic speech; anyone can contribute.
Open · CC0
Release / announcement
12 Jul 2019
Official source
Official source — commonvoice.mozilla.org (opens in a new tab on commonvoice.mozilla.org)
Date source
Date source — discourse.mozilla.org (opens in a new tab on discourse.mozilla.org)
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