Icelandic LLM Leaderboard

Icelandic LLM Leaderboard

Ranks large language models on Icelandic language tasks in a static leaderboard page from Miðeind. It suits people choosing or studying models for Icelandic.

Made by mideind on Hugging Face. These notes are Mindket's, written from its Space page and README; the app's own files and license are on Hugging Face.

About

What it is: Icelandic LLM Leaderboard is a static web page that evaluates large language models on Icelandic tasks. It is built and maintained by Miðeind. The repository holds the page, its scripts and two JSON data files, and it needs no server.

Who it suits: People who need to pick or study a language model for Icelandic, and researchers who track how well models handle smaller languages.

Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example
Research | Language technology researchers | Compare models on Icelandic tasks | Look through the ranked list
Software | Developers building Icelandic products | Choose a model to build on | Check which models score well
Public sector | Teams that serve Icelandic speakers | Shortlist models for a pilot | Read the leaderboard before testing
Education | Students of language technology | See how a model leaderboard is built | Read app.js and leaderboard.json

People who work only in other languages can skip it.

Where to use it:

• A browser, by visiting the Space on Hugging Face
• A copy of the files on Windows, macOS or Linux, opened in a web browser

Use case | Who | What they get back
View the ranking | Researchers and developers | A leaderboard of models on Icelandic tasks
Reuse the page | Web developers | A static leaderboard they can adapt with credit

How to set it up:

• Python and pip, only to fetch a copy of the files
• A web browser

1. Install the Hugging Face hub package.
2. Download the Space with the hf command.
3. Move into the new folder.
4. Open index.html in a web browser.

pip install -U huggingface_hub
hf download mideind/icelandic-llm-leaderboard --repo-type space --local-dir icelandic-llm-leaderboard
cd icelandic-llm-leaderboard

How to use it: Online, visit the Space on Hugging Face and read the leaderboard. With a local copy, open index.html in your browser and read it the same way. There are no commands to run.

Tool | What it does
index.html | The leaderboard page
app.js | Runs the page in the browser
leaderboard.json | A data file kept beside the page
style.css | Styles the page

Example: You visit the page and look at how the listed models rank on the Icelandic tasks. You note the best ones and test them on your own Icelandic text.

For newcomers and experts: If you are new, a leaderboard is a ranked list that shows how different models did on the same tests. Visit the page and read from the top.

If you know the field, this is a static page with a data file and a second JSON file, so the whole leaderboard is plain files served as they are. The author allows reuse with credit under a Creative Commons license. The source gives no detail on which tasks are scored.

You visit the static page
The page loads its JSON data
The leaderboard table is drawn
You compare the models

Good to know:

• Type: a static site, so nothing runs on a server and no GPU is involved
• Detail: the source does not list the tasks or the scoring method
• License: cc-by-4, so reuse is free with attribution
• Cost to run: none named
• Data it reaches: none named, the page reads its own JSON files

On Hugging Face, 13 November 2026

• Likes: 20
• Built with: static
• License: cc-by-4.0

Links

• Space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mideind/icelandic-llm-leaderboard
• Files: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mideind/icelandic-llm-leaderboard/tree/main

Try it

Open the Space in your browser, or copy it to your own Hugging Face account from its page. Nothing in this kit runs by itself.