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ExplosionOpen weights model

spaCy en_core_web_lg benchmarks

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  • General rank
    Too few tasks3 non-coding tasks ranked5 needed for a rank
  • Cost
    Self-hostedHardware not recordedNo hosted price
  • Traces#21 / 46 tied
    53.7%Best task · PII left invs PII detectors

Comparison summary

Strongest
Safety and guardrails
Leads 0 of 3 (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 · #29 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 en_core_web_lg
    Leads 0 of 3
See the 5 tasks

Traces

Tier 8 of 19#21 / 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 en_core_web_lg
    53.7, interval 50.6 to 56.5, tier 8
Tested against 52 PII detectors

Business

Tier 11 of 18#30 / 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 en_core_web_lg
    51.1, interval 48.5 to 53.9, tier 11
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 en_core_web_lg
    63.3, interval 62.0 to 64.5, 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. Qwen3.8 27B10.3, interval 7.9 to 12.9, tier 2
  3. spaCy en_core_web_lg
    19.0, interval 16.4 to 21.7, not ranked
  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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Tier 10 of 13#23 / 42

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 en_core_web_lg
    80.6, interval 72.7 to 87.1, tier 10
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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