whatmodel.sh / Flan-UL2 20B

Flan-UL2 20B is an open-weights language model from Google, released March 2023. Its published size is 20B parameters. Licence: apache-2.0.

Catalogue identity notes

Instruction-tuned (Flan) UL2 20B released by Google; Hugging Face repo google/flan-ul2 created 2023-03-03, Apache-2.0.

Model information sources

Release date ↗

47.8±3.5comparison only: no current run option verifiedfrom 5 benchmark results across 2 sources

Score within the LMArena (text) comparison set only.

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of Flan-UL2 20B, out of 877 with a score, then more from Google.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
487GPT-3.5 Turbo (0125) OpenAI48±1api $0.75/M2024-01
488EuroLLM 9B Instruct UTTER (EuroLLM)48±2local~6.9GB2024-11
489Flan-UL2 20B Google48±4comparison only2023-03
490GPT-3.5 Turbo (1106) OpenAI48±1comparison only2023-11
491Granite 4.0 H Micro 3B IBM48±1local~3.4GB2025-09
more from Google
11Gemini 4 Argon Google80±1api $4.00/M2026-09
26Gemini 3.8 Flash Google76±1api $1.50/M2026-09
34Gemini 3.7 Flash Google75±1api $1.50/M2026-08

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$ what it's good at

other tests5 not in a task · 94% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
ZeroSCROLLS Qasper (zero-shot F1)56.9% ✎▂▂··▂·▂··▂█▄ beats 10/10medium · avg 56%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 32%blunt · at its level
ZeroSCROLLS QuALITY (zero-shot accuracy)75.6% ✎▃····▃·▃▃█▅▅ beats 8/10easy · avg 81%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 30%at its level
ZeroSCROLLS NarrativeQA (zero-shot F1)25.5% ✎▃··▃·█▃·█▃·▃ beats 8/10hard · avg 29%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 18%blunt · at its level
FANToM BeliefQ [Choice], short context (zero-shot)23.0% ✎█·····▂····▁ beats 6/11very hard · avg 55%▇▇▇▇ 10%sharp · too hard for it · noisy
ZeroSCROLLS MuSiQue (zero-shot F1)51.3% ✎▄·█··██·▄▄▄▄ beats 10/10medium · avg 43%▇▇ 4.9%blunt · at its level

$ where to run it

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Official weights and documentation: huggingface.co/google ↗

$ how the score was worked out · ZeroSCROLLS: A Zero-Shot Benc… 85%, FANToM: A Benchmark for Stres… 10%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
ZeroSCROLLS: A Zero-Shot Benchmark for Long Text Understanding — authors' own runs4CC BY 4.0
FANToM: A Benchmark for Stress-testing Machine Theory of Mind in Interactions — authors' own runs1CC BY 4.0
prior · pull toward the middle
weighted average= 47.8

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