Arabic models
44 open-weight and hosted Arabic models, with the dialects each covers.
44 of 44 models
- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
IFM · MBZUAI
PAN 2
World modeling / video simulation · 29B perceptual backbone
UAE-developed world model simulating the outcome of text-described actions as video up to 20 seconds. IFM publishes weights and training/inference code under Apache-2.0; third-party components retain their own licences. Arabic prompt support is not documented. Requires self-hosting; not offered in Souq Playground or for purchase. Long-term world consistency remains an open challenge. News announcement: 11 November 2026, not a confirmed first-release date.
Open weights · Apache 2.0- News published
- 11 Nov 2026
- Official source
- Official source — ifm.ai (opens in a new tab on ifm.ai)
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- 14 Nov 2026
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
inceptionai
Jais-3
Text generation · 0.9B–375B · 6 models
MSARegional dialectsReleased 15 Oct 2026 with Jais Speech; on Hugging Face for API or local use.
Open weights · Open- News published
- 15 Oct 2026
- Official source
- Official source — af.net (opens in a new tab on af.net)
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
inceptionai
Jais-Speech
Speech recognition
MSAArabic transcription released with Jais 3.
Open weights · Open- News published
- 15 Oct 2026
- Official source
- Official source — af.net (opens in a new tab on af.net)
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
TII
Falcon-Emirati
Text generation · 7B
EmiratiBuilt on Falcon-H1-Arabic for Emirati vocabulary, idioms and cultural context. Announced alongside Falcon-ASR and Falcon-OCR-Arabic on 6 October 2026; TII identifies Falcon Chat as its access platform.
Falcon Chat · Not specified- Release / announcement
- 6 Oct 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- 2 Nov 2026
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
TII
Falcon-ASR
Speech recognition · 1.6B
MSAEmiratiTranscribes Modern Standard and Emirati Arabic, English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, with word-level timestamps. Officially launched on 6 October 2026; downloadable weights and licence terms are not confirmed.
Availability not confirmed · Not specified- Release / announcement
- 6 Oct 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- 2 Nov 2026
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
TII
Falcon-OCR-Arabic
OCR
ArabicLightweight Arabic document model extracting text, tables, mathematical formulas and document sections from images. Launched on 6 October 2026; distinct from the general Falcon-OCR repository, whose Arabic support is unconfirmed.
Availability not confirmed · Not specified- Release / announcement
- 6 Oct 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- 2 Nov 2026
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
HUMAIN
humain-m3
Text generation · 428B MoE · ~23B active
MSARegional dialectsBuilt on MiniMax-M3, trained further on 1T+ Arabic tokens; preview via HUMAIN Node. Launched at LEAP 2026.
Hosted API · MiniMax Community (planned)- News published
- 3 Sep 2026
- Official source
- Official source — unite.ai (opens in a new tab on unite.ai)
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
Morocco-Mistral
Darija ASR (Voxtral-based)
Speech recognition
MaghrebiTranscribes Darija, including Arabic–French–English mixing; released with a dialect identifier (Sept 2026).
Open weights · Open source- News published
- Sep 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
CohereLabs
cohere-transcribe-arabic-07-2026
Speech recognition · 2B
MSAGulfEgyptianLevantineMaghrebiHandles Arabic–English code-switching; runs on consumer hardware.
Open + hosted · Apache 2.0- Documented repository availability
- 7 Jul 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
oddadmix
lahgtna-chatterbox-v0
Text to speech
EgyptianGulfMaghrebiIraqiMulti-dialect TTS with tashkeel support.
Open weights · Open- Documented repository availability
- 17 Apr 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
oddadmix
chatterbox-egyptian-v0
Text to speech
EgyptianEgyptian Arabic speech synthesis.
Open weights · Open- Documented repository availability
- 17 Apr 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
silma-ai
silma-tts
Text to speech · 150M
MSAArabic–English TTS with voice cloning; commercial voices at app.silma.ai.
Open + hosted · Open- Documented repository availability
- 13 Mar 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
Applied-Innovation-Center
Karnak
Text generation · 40B
MSADepth-extended from Qwen3-30B-A3B; 20K context.
Open weights · Open- Release / announcement
- 11 Feb 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
NAMAA-Space
SaudiSpell-AraT5
Translation
GulfMSASpelling correction for Saudi dialects and MSA.
Open weights · Open- Documented repository availability
- 14 Jan 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
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- Not verified
- Via Souq
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- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
tiiuae
Falcon-H1-Arabic
Text generation · 3B · 7B · 34B
MSAHybrid Mamba-Transformer, 256K context; leads the Open Arabic LLM Leaderboard.
Open weights · Falcon LLM License- Release / announcement
- 5 Jan 2026
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
Training dataset · RefinedWeb · Hugging Face (TII) (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co)English training data for the original Falcon family; its use for Falcon-H1-Arabic is not confirmed.
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
inceptionai
Jais-2
Text generation · 8B · 70B
MSAGulfEgyptianLevantineTrained on a large Arabic-first dataset; powers JAIS Chat.
Open weights · Open- Release / announcement
- 9 Dec 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
Misraj
Kawn
Text generation
MSARegional dialects2T+ curated Arabic tokens; companion models Mutarjim (translation), Lahjawi (15 dialects) and Kawn OCR. Launched at AWS re:Invent 2025.
Hosted API · Proprietary- News published
- Dec 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
NAMAA-Space
NAMAA-MT-Saudi2English
Translation
GulfNajdi and Hijazi Saudi dialects into English.
Open weights · Open- Release / announcement
- 18 Nov 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
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- Not verified
- Via Souq
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- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
IbrahimSalah
Arabic-F5-TTS-v2
Text to speech
MSAF5-based Arabic speech synthesis.
Open weights · Open- Documented repository availability
- 13 Nov 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
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- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
nineninesix
kani-tts-400m-ar
Text to speech · 400M
MSAArabic-specialised TTS.
Open weights · Open- Documented repository availability
- 24 Oct 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
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- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
Misraj
Baseer
OCR
MSAVision-language model turning Arabic documents into Markdown.
Research · Research- Research paper published
- Sep 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
MBZUAI-Paris
Nile-Chat
Text generation · 4B · 12B · 3x4B-A6B
EgyptianEgyptian Arabic in Arabic script and Arabizi.
Open weights · Open- News published
- 17 Jun 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
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- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
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- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
TII
Falcon Arabic 7B
Text generation · 7B
MSAGulfLevantineArabic-focused Falcon 3-based model with a 32K-token context window. Launched on 21 May 2025; separate from the Falcon-H1-Arabic hybrid family.
Falcon Chat · Not specified- Release / announcement
- 21 May 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- 2 Nov 2026
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
MAdel121
whisper-medium-egy
Speech recognition
EgyptianWhisper fine-tuned on Egyptian Arabic.
Open weights · Open- Documented repository availability
- 19 May 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.✓ Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet.Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
Qwen (Alibaba)
Qwen3-0.6B
Text generation · 0.6B
MSANajdiLevantineEgyptianMoroccanMesopotamianTa'izzi-AdeniTunisianSouq pilot: Arabic and several dialects among 119 languages. Small model; previous testing produced an incorrect Saudi capital and stray characters. Test your own tasks and verify outputs before choosing.
Test & compareBefore you buy · Issues & all
- Strengths
- Small footprint; Arabic responses arrived quickly in Souq's pilot. A candidate for simple drafting tasks.
- Known issues & limits
- In an earlier pilot it gave the wrong Saudi capital and stray characters appeared. Fluency is not factual accuracy.
- Dialect verdict
- No human dialect audit yet; test your own dialect and tasks before choosing.
Test at your own risk · Verify outputs
Do not enter sensitive data or rely on it alone for medical, legal or financial decisions. This notice does not waive your legal rights.
Hugging Face Inference Providers · Apache-2.0- Release / announcement
- 29 Apr 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- 7 Nov 2026
- Verified pricing
- Free weights (hosting extra)
Weights are free to download; hosting and inference are not included.
huggingface.co (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co) · Checked 2026-11-14 - Commercial use
- Permitted with conditions
Apache-2.0 permits commercial use subject to its conditions; no supplier resale agreement is implied.
huggingface.co (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co) · Checked 2026-11-14 - Data residency
- Self-hosted; location chosen by you
Local deployment supported. You choose hosting location; no hosted-service residency guarantee.
huggingface.co (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co) · Checked 2026-11-14 - Via Souq
- Registered Playground pilot
Registration and usage limits apply; not a model sale or a data-residency guarantee.
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NAMAA-Space
Qari-OCR-v0.3-VL-2B-Instruct
OCR · 2B
MSAArabic OCR that keeps diacritics and complex layouts.
Open weights · Open- Documented repository availability
- 10 Apr 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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CohereLabs
command-r7b-arabic
Text generation · 7B
MSASmall enterprise-focused Arabic–English model; also on Ollama.
Open + hosted · Open weights- Documented repository availability
- 27 Feb 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
mistralai
Mistral-Saba
Text generation
MSARegional model for Arabic and South Asian languages.
Hosted API · Commercial- News published
- 17 Feb 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
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- Not recorded yet
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- Not verified
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- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
MBZUAI
AIN
Vision + text · 7B
MSAArabic–English multimodal model for OCR, medical and satellite images; usable in WhatsApp and Telegram.
Hosted API · Research- News published
- 5 Feb 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
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- Not verified
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- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
NAMAA-Space
AraModernBert-Base-V1.0
Embeddings & search · 8K context
MSAArabic ModernBERT encoder for search and classification.
Open weights · Open- Documented repository availability
- 1 Feb 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
QCRI
Fanar-Star / Prime
Text generation · Star 7B
MSARegional dialectsQatar sovereign platform; also speech, image and Islamic-tailored models.
Hosted API · Fanar terms- Research paper published
- Jan 2025
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
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- Not verified
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- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
omarelshehy
Arabic-Retrieval-v1.0
Embeddings & search
MSAArabic sentence embeddings for semantic search.
Open weights · Open- Documented repository availability
- 3 Dec 2024
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
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- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
MBZUAI
ArTST-v2
Speech recognition
Regional dialectsUnified Arabic text-and-speech transformer covering 17 dialects.
Open weights · Open- Documented repository availability
- 7 Nov 2024
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
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- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
NAMAA-Space
Namaa-Reranker-v1
Embeddings & search
MSAReranker for Arabic retrieval and RAG, tuned on mMARCO.
Open weights · Open- Documented repository availability
- 1 Nov 2024
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
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- Not recorded yet
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- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
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- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
mboushaba
whisper-large-v3-turbo-arabic
Speech recognition
MSAFast Whisper fine-tune for Arabic.
Open weights · Open- Documented repository availability
- 3 Oct 2024
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
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- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
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- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
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Qwen (Alibaba)
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct
Text generation · 7.61B
ArabicSouq comparison pilot. Official Arabic support among 29+ languages. Developer reports improved instruction following and structured output; facts and dialect performance still need verification. No human dialect audit yet.
Test & compareBefore you buy · Issues & all
- Strengths
- Official Arabic support among 29+ languages. The developer reports improved instruction following and structured output.
- Known issues & limits
- Larger does not mean infallible: it can invent facts or mishandle dialects. Speed and cost depend on the provider.
- Dialect verdict
- No human dialect audit yet; test your own dialect and tasks before choosing.
Test at your own risk · Verify outputs
Do not enter sensitive data or rely on it alone for medical, legal or financial decisions. This notice does not waive your legal rights.
Hugging Face Inference Providers · Apache-2.0- Release / announcement
- 19 Sep 2024
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- 7 Nov 2026
- Verified pricing
- Free weights (hosting extra)
Weights are free to download; hosting and inference are not included.
huggingface.co (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co) · Checked 2026-11-14 - Commercial use
- Permitted with conditions
Apache-2.0 permits commercial use subject to its conditions; no supplier resale agreement is implied.
huggingface.co (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co) · Checked 2026-11-14 - Data residency
- Self-hosted; location chosen by you
Local deployment supported. You choose hosting location; no hosted-service residency guarantee.
huggingface.co (opens in a new tab on huggingface.co) · Checked 2026-11-14 - Via Souq
- Registered Playground pilot
Registration and usage limits apply; not a model sale or a data-residency guarantee.
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ALLaM-AI
ALLaM-7B-Instruct-preview
Text generation · 7B open · 34B hosted
MSASaudi national model; 34B runs HUMAIN Chat and ships via watsonx and Azure; Bedrock and Microsoft Foundry announced at LEAP 2026.
Open + hosted · ALLaM terms- Documented repository availability
- 10 Sep 2024
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
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- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
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- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
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MBZUAI-Paris
Atlas-Chat
Text generation
MaghrebiAdapted for Moroccan Darija.
Open weights · Open- Research paper published
- Sep 2024
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
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- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
silma-ai
SILMA
Text generation
MSASaudi open Arabic models and public Arabic benchmarks.
Open weights · Open- Documented repository availability
- 17 Aug 2024
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
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- Not recorded yet
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- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
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UBC-NLP
Dallah
Vision + text
Regional dialectsDialect-aware multimodal Arabic model built on LLaVA.
Open weights · Research- Research paper published
- Aug 2024
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
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- Not recorded yet
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- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
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- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
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Huawei
Pangu Arabic
Text generation · 100B
MSAArabic model on Huawei Cloud, launched in Cairo with Egypt’s first public cloud.
Hosted API · Commercial- News published
- 21 May 2024
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
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- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
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Watad
Mulhem
Text generation · 7B
MSAGulfArabic–English model trained on Saudi data sets; trial API planned.
Hosted API · Proprietary- News published
- 6 Mar 2024
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
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- Not recorded yet
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- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
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- Not verified
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- Discovery only
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MBZUAI
speecht5_tts_clartts_ar
Text to speech
MSASpeechT5 fine-tuned for Arabic.
Open weights · Open- Documented repository availability
- 7 Feb 2024
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
- Added to Souq
- Not recorded yet
- Verified pricing
- Not verified
- Commercial use
- Not verified
- Data residency
- Not verified
- Via Souq
- Discovery only
- ✓ Discoverable — Discoverable: the model is listed on Souq so you can browse and compare it.Testable — Testable: you can try it on your own tasks in the playground. It may be unavailable if we have no connection to its provider yet. (not yet)Purchasable — Purchasable: you can pay for access through Souq. It may be unavailable if its licence or provider does not allow resale. (not yet)
inceptionai
jais-30b-chat
Text generation · 30B
MSAEarlier Jais chat model; runs on a single 24 GB GPU when quantised.
Open weights · Apache 2.0- Documented repository availability
- 30 Aug 2023
- Item last updated
- Not documented yet
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- Not verified
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- Discovery only
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