PLaMo 3 Translate
Preferred Networks' open-weight translation models in 0.8B-31B sizes covering 53 languages, strongest on Japanese-English.
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Overview
PLaMo 3 Translate is a translation-specialized model family from Preferred Networks (PFN) in four sizes (0.8B, 2B, 8B, 31B) supporting 53 languages, with weights on Hugging Face under the PLaMo Community License. Personal and non-commercial use is free; commercial use is free after registration if revenue is 1 billion yen or less, and above that a separate license from PFN is required. The 8B BF16 card reports PFTB (En-Ja) 0.6119, WMT24++ COMET-22 (En-Ja) 0.8805 and FLORES+ chrF++ (En-multilingual) 56.22; PFN says even the 2B model beats TranslateGemma and HY-MT2 on its compared metrics (vendor comparison, not independently reproduced). Secondary reports date the open-weight release to November 5, 2026, but the model card carries no date and one outlet reports the 31B model earlier, in October.
This is a sourced directory entry. Features and capabilities are reported in the linked sources; this entry does not document independent Aymorphic testing.
Key features
- Sizes 0.8B, 2B, 8B and 31B; 8B BF16 is 17.06 GB, W4A16 5.71 GB, GGUF Q4_K_M 5.28 GB
- 53 supported languages including Japanese and English
- Context up to 32,768 tokens for input plus output
- PLaMo Community License: free commercial use at or below 1 billion yen annual revenue after registration
Use cases
- Japanese-English and multilingual translation on local hardware
- Offline translation on small devices using the quantized builds
Pricing
Weights free under the PLaMo Community License; separate commercial license required above 1 billion yen annual revenue.
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Dates and sources
- Released
- Not listed
- Record updated
- 8 Nov 2026
- Record last checked
- 8 Nov 2026