Best small LLMs for translations?

I am working with multi-language content and have so far been useing gemma4:e2b for general work. Today I tried it with Russian for the first time and the result was not great. Gemma4:e4b was better, but still missed some nuances. LFM2:24B has a good and fluent English but the translation was not ok. Translategemma:4b has so far been the best model, for Russian to English. Which models (smaller local LLMs) are you using for different languages? submitted by /u/bidutree [link] [comments]

Source: r/ollama | 2026-09-03