Best LLMs for Kannada 2026 | Kannada Language AI Leaderboard
Real-time rankings of the best LLMs for Kannada language.
OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Mini
by OpenAI
•400K tokens
GPT-5.4 mini brings the core capabilities of GPT-5.4 to a faster, more efficient model optimized for high-throughput workloads. It supports text and image inputs with strong performance across reasoning, coding, and tool use, while reducing latency and cost for large-scale deployments. The model is designed for production environments that require a balance of capability and efficiency, making it well suited for chat applications, coding assistants, and agent workflows that operate at scale. GPT-5.4 mini delivers reliable instruction following, solid multi-step reasoning, and consistent performance across diverse tasks with improved cost efficiency.

Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash
by Google
•1.05M tokens
Gemini 2.5 Flash is Google's state-of-the-art workhorse model, specifically designed for advanced reasoning, coding, mathematics, and scientific tasks. It includes built-in "thinking" capabilities, enabling it to provide responses with greater accuracy and nuanced context handling. Additionally, Gemini 2.5 Flash is configurable through the "max tokens for reasoning" parameter, as described in the documentation (https://openrouter.ai/docs/use-cases/reasoning-tokens#max-tokens-for-reasoning).

Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
by Google
•1.05M tokens
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is Google's high-efficiency model optimized for high-volume use cases. It outperforms Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite on overall quality and approaches Gemini 2.5 Flash performance across key capabilities. Improvements span audio input/ASR, RAG snippet ranking, translation, data extraction, and code completion. Supports full thinking levels (minimal, low, medium, high) for fine-grained cost/performance trade-offs. Priced at half the cost of Gemini 3 Flash.

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OpenAI: GPT-4o-mini
by OpenAI
128K tokens
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Xiaomi: MiMo-V2-Flash
by Xiaomi
262.14K tokens