PII Arena
HF detector

gravitee-small PII detection benchmark

Measured on 41 of 41 retained datasets under the same frozen scoring and masking protocol.

42.98%fully hidden annotations
50.49%detected / overlapped
5.36%extra masking
15,141CPU characters / second

Strengths

Highest complete-masking rates by normalized data type.

Dates & times84.86%4,669 / 5,502
Phone numbers & email66.19%14,550 / 21,981
Bank accounts & cards55.74%2,928 / 5,253

Watch list

Lowest observed complete-masking rates; inspect before deployment.

Logins & usernames4.33%493 / 11,382
Customer & employee IDs4.79%383 / 7,994
Other sensitive attributes15.68%503 / 3,207

Language coverage

The overall leader can differ from the best choice for one language slice.

LanguageDatasetsFully hidden ↑Detected ↑Extra masking ↓
English1771.73%77.55%5.08%
Russian1928.60%37.50%6.12%
Multilingual559.45%64.60%2.75%

Configuration, source and version

Family
HF
Revision
f8c27a85c51c0168f07b9dcf00265bf0a4097939
Eligible datasets
41 / 41
Character F1
0.496
Untouched diagnostic
49.51% · 112,622 / 227,466
Benchmark version
1.0.3 · 2026-09-09
CPU seconds / 10k chars
0.660
GPU seconds / 10k chars
Not measured

Results by dataset

Complete masking is primary; detection shows whether any character overlapped.

DatasetGold annotationsFully hidden ↑Detected ↑Extra masking ↓
nerel24,3692.76%3.77%
rubai-ru3,4583.59%61.57%
factrueval7,9663.72%4.07%
corrupt-secrets-issues28811.11%27.08%3.94%
secrets-issues28812.15%25.69%3.64%
alexen21,26118.72%85.88%40.57%
jayguard1,19522.01%29.62%2.95%
synth-secrets-ru58123.41%42.51%10.98%
scanpatch8,70824.82%35.94%5.96%
leaky-repo9525.26%42.11%1.96%
leak-museum10127.72%36.63%1.27%
synth-ru-tickets32,09928.28%37.45%
multiconer-ru1,20832.28%46.52%21.08%
nym-ru9,49736.16%45.06%
synth-wiki-tables13,09436.99%45.30%
creddata77638.92%49.48%3.31%
dialogpii-multi10,34539.35%46.01%
redact-ru9,23039.88%48.16%4.28%
synth-env-configs39240.56%76.79%10.81%
tab-echr3,83040.94%56.48%
alrosait1,86245.92%66.11%5.61%
synth-secrets-en58146.30%70.91%11.10%
ameau012,24246.65%47.73%1.81%
corrupt-redmadrobot5,53152.99%60.40%4.23%
synth-jira-comments2,70554.75%62.74%
secrets-rules74658.18%72.92%25.36%
redmadrobot5,51658.83%65.14%4.19%
redact-multi22,86459.42%65.43%
nym-multi8,16962.16%66.63%4.12%
corrupt-hivetrace1,66762.57%74.93%11.52%
russian-pii-66k4,80562.96%69.59%
dialogpii-en3,08765.95%74.21%4.06%
hivetrace1,66767.55%76.48%7.93%
arthur-passwords28068.57%68.57%15.79%
nemotron-pii9,39171.23%76.94%5.71%
kiji-multi7,56572.12%73.96%
gretel-multi4,48479.66%83.76%2.73%
tonicai2,41782.25%86.22%3.70%
nym-en3,58484.77%86.24%3.80%
kiji-en7,62395.26%95.75%
privy1,89999.21%99.58%1.91%