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ExplosionOpen weights model

spaCy de_core_news_lg benchmarks

All models
  • General rank
    Too few tasks2 non-coding tasks ranked5 needed for a rank
  • Cost
    Self-hostedHardware not recordedNo hosted price
  • Traces#31 / 46 tied
    74.0%Best task · PII left invs PII detectors

Comparison summary

Strongest
Safety and guardrails
Leads 0 of 2 (0%)

An entity tagger: it marks spans of text such as names, addresses or account numbers, used to find personal data and mask it. Strongest at safety.

Specifications

Lab
Explosion
Weights
Open weights
Parameters
Not disclosed
Licence
MIT
Type
encoder-NER (spaCy)

Safety and guardrails

Share of tasks led · #35 of 46

  1. Gemma 4 31BLeads 3 of 4
  2. Perplexity PII TracerLeads 2 of 4
  3. Amazon ComprehendLeads 1 of 4
  4. Qwen3.8 27BLeads 1 of 5
  5. Gemma 4 12BLeads 0 of 4
  6. Ministral 3 14BLeads 0 of 5
  7. Gemma 4 26B A4BLeads 0 of 4
  8. spaCy de_core_news_lg
    Leads 0 of 2
See the 5 tasks

Traces

Tier 12 of 19#31 / 46

PII left in, % · Lower is better

  1. Amazon Comprehend10.6, interval 9.4 to 11.9, ahead alone
  2. GLiNER Multi PII v115.3, interval 13.2 to 17.3, tier 2
  3. NVIDIA GLiNER PII19.7, interval 17.4 to 22.0, tier 3
  4. Gemma 4 26B A4B19.8, interval 15.8 to 24.2, tier 3
  5. Qwen3.8 27B20.3, interval 16.5 to 24.3, tier 3
  6. GLiNER2 Large20.4, interval 18.0 to 22.8, tier 3
  7. Gemma 4 12B23.3, interval 19.0 to 27.6, tier 3
  8. spaCy de_core_news_lg
    74.0, interval 71.8 to 76.1, tier 12
Tested against 52 PII detectors

Business

Tier 13 of 18#33 / 46

PII left in, % · Lower is better

  1. Perplexity PII Tracer2.1, interval 1.2 to 3.0, tied for the lead
  2. Qwen3.8 27B2.4, interval 1.7 to 3.3, tied for the lead
  3. Gemma 4 31B2.9, interval 1.9 to 4.0, tied for the lead
  4. GLiNER Multi PII v14.1, interval 3.1 to 5.3, tier 2
  5. Ministral 3 14B5.4, interval 4.0 to 6.9, tier 2
  6. Gemma 4 12B5.8, interval 4.4 to 7.3, tier 3
  7. Amazon Comprehend5.9, interval 4.6 to 7.2, tier 3
  8. spaCy de_core_news_lg
    66.1, interval 63.4 to 69.0, tier 13
Tested against 53 PII detectors

Multilingual

Not ranked

PII left in, % · Lower is better

  1. Perplexity PII Tracer2.9, interval 2.5 to 3.4, ahead alone
  2. Qwen3.8 27B4.2, interval 3.7 to 4.8, tier 2
  3. Gemma 4 31B4.5, interval 3.9 to 5.1, tier 2
  4. GLiNER Multi PII v15.7, interval 5.2 to 6.3, tier 3
  5. bardsai EU PII Multilang6.9, interval 6.3 to 7.5, tier 4
  6. Qwen3.6 35B A3B7.7, interval 7.0 to 8.4, tier 4
  7. Gemma 4 12B8.9, interval 8.1 to 9.7, tier 5
  8. spaCy de_core_news_lg
    71.6, interval 70.5 to 72.7, not ranked
Tested against 53 PII detectors

Look-alikes

Not ranked

Look-alikes redacted, % · Lower is better

  1. Gemma 4 31B3.5, interval 2.1 to 5.1, ahead alone
  2. spaCy de_core_news_lg
    10.2, interval 8.1 to 12.4, not ranked
  3. Qwen3.8 27B10.3, interval 7.9 to 12.9, tier 2
  4. NuExtract 319.8, interval 15.9 to 23.6, tier 3
  5. Qwen3.5 9B20.5, interval 16.8 to 24.3, tier 3
  6. Ministral 3 14B30.5, interval 26.5 to 34.8, tier 4
  7. NVIDIA GLiNER PII42.0, interval 38.2 to 46.1, tier 5
  8. Gemma 3 4B IT45.0, interval 41.0 to 49.0, tier 5
Tested against 53 PII detectors

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Not ranked

PII left in, % · Lower is better

  1. Gemma 4 31B6.9, interval 2.8 to 11.3, ahead alone
  2. Ministral 3 14B10.2, interval 5.8 to 15.4, tier 2
  3. Gemma 4 12B16.5, interval 10.3 to 23.2, tier 3
  4. Qwen3.8 27B16.7, interval 9.8 to 25.0, tier 3
  5. Gemma 4 26B A4B20.5, interval 13.3 to 28.8, tier 4
  6. Qwen3.5 9B21.5, interval 13.4 to 30.6, tier 4
  7. Gemma 3 4B IT22.4, interval 14.3 to 32.1, tier 4
  8. spaCy de_core_news_lg
    78.5, interval 71.5 to 84.9, not ranked
Tested against 57 PII detectors
How we count

A model leads a task when it is in the task's leading tie tier. Each task counts inside its own benchmark, against that benchmark's models; no score is averaged. An area chart shows the models ranked on at least 2 of the area's tasks in a benchmark this model is in too. The overall standing counts every non-coding tasks and needs 5 for a rank. Latency is compared only on one hardware tier.

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