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DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

DeepSeek · 8B

Strongest in Toxicity avoidance (#69 of 272), weakest in Safety (#286 of 336). Above par in 2 of 6 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind Claude Sonnet 5 and MiniMax M2.7 and ahead of SmolLM 360M Instruct and Command A.

§ 1 · Profile

What it is good at

Bars run from 50 — the average of the models each source lists — so right of the line is above par. The middle column is the gap to whoever leads that scope.

Safety44.9−16.6#286/3361/3

Toxicity avoidance56.3−2.7#69/2721/1

Jailbreak resistance54−10.9#131/2721/1

Secure code30.4−36.1#250/2741/1

Harm refusal43.7−17.9#262/2991/2

Fairness41.1−28.9#271/2991/2

§ 2 · Head to head

What it beats, and what beats it

The same models turn up scope after scope. Counted once: where both were placed, who finished higher. Bars run right for DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B, left for the other.

H2o Danube3 500M Chatwon 6 · lost 0

OLMoE 1B-7B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Mistral Instruct v0.1 (7B)won 5 · lost 1

OLMo 7B Instruct Hfwon 5 · lost 1

RakutenAI 7B Chatwon 5 · lost 1

SmolLM 1.7B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

DBRX Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Smollm2 1.7B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

LFM2 350Mwon 5 · lost 1

Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7b Dpowon 5 · lost 1

Qwen2.5 0.5B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Gemma 2B Itwon 5 · lost 1

PowerMoE 3Bwon 4 · lost 2

Phi 2won 4 · lost 2

PowerLM 3Bwon 4 · lost 2

Qwen3 30B A3B Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Laguna Xs 2.1won 4 · lost 2

SmolLM2 360M Instructwon 4 · lost 2

CodeLlama 7B Instruct Hfwon 4 · lost 2

Jamba Mini 1.7won 4 · lost 2

OLMo 2 7B Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Grok 4won 4 · lost 2

Grok 3won 4 · lost 2

Magistral Smallwon 4 · lost 2

Laguna S 2.1won 4 · lost 2

Falcon H1 0.5B Instructwon 4 · lost 2

SEA LION V1 7B ITwon 4 · lost 2

GPT-3.5 Turbowon 4 · lost 2

DeepSeek R1won 4 · lost 2

Command R7Bwon 4 · lost 2

Command Awon 4 · lost 2

SmolLM 360M Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Qwen2.5 7B Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Gemma 7B Itwon 3 · lost 3

Grok 4.1 Fastwon 3 · lost 3

RakutenAI 7B Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Falcon Mamba 7B Instructwon 3 · lost 3

GLM-4 9B Chatwon 3 · lost 3

Qwen2 7B Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Aya 23 8Bwon 3 · lost 3

Llama 3.1 8B Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Grok Build 0.1won 3 · lost 3

Qwen1.5 14B Chatwon 3 · lost 3

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7Bwon 3 · lost 3

H2o Danube3 4B Chatwon 3 · lost 3

Magistral Mediumwon 3 · lost 3

Llama 3.1 Instruct Turbo (70B)won 3 · lost 3

Jamba Large 1.7won 3 · lost 3

Qwen3 8Bwon 3 · lost 3

GLM-4.6won 3 · lost 3

Open Codestral Mambawon 3 · lost 3

Gemma 4 E2Bwon 3 · lost 3

Gemma 4 E4Bwon 3 · lost 3

Qwen2.5 1.5B Instructwon 3 · lost 3

Komodo 7B Basewon 3 · lost 3

Sarvam 30Bwon 3 · lost 3

Mistral Instruct v0.3 (7B)won 2 · lost 4

Zephyr 7B Betawon 2 · lost 4

Ling 3.0 Flash VLwon 2 · lost 4

Mimo V2.6 Flashwon 2 · lost 4

Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 2 · lost 4

Jamba 1.6 Miniwon 2 · lost 4

LFM2 700Mwon 2 · lost 4

DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 2 · lost 4

Command R Pluswon 2 · lost 4

NexusRaven V2 13Bwon 2 · lost 4

Ling 3.0 Flashwon 2 · lost 4

Open Mixtral 8x7bwon 2 · lost 4

Jamba 1.5 Largewon 2 · lost 4

Gemma 2 9B Itwon 2 · lost 4

GLM-5.2won 2 · lost 4

DeepSeek LLM 67B Chatwon 2 · lost 4

Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 2 · lost 4

Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55Bwon 2 · lost 4

Grok 4.3won 2 · lost 4

Phi-4 Mini Instructwon 2 · lost 4

Mimo V2.6 Pro Ultraspeedwon 2 · lost 4

Jamba 1.5 Miniwon 2 · lost 4

DeepSeek V3won 2 · lost 4

Qwen2.5 3B Instructwon 2 · lost 4

LFM2 1.2Bwon 2 · lost 4

MiniMax M3won 2 · lost 4

Granite 3.0 1B A400M Instructwon 2 · lost 4

DeepSeek V3p1won 2 · lost 4

QwQ 32Bwon 2 · lost 4

Jamba 1.6 Largewon 2 · lost 4

GLM-4.5won 2 · lost 4

Kimi K2.6won 2 · lost 4

Jamba Instructwon 2 · lost 4

Sarvam 1won 2 · lost 4

Qwen3.7 Maxwon 2 · lost 4

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct 1Mwon 2 · lost 4

Mistral Smallwon 2 · lost 4

Kimi K2.5won 2 · lost 4

DeepSeek Reasonerwon 2 · lost 4

Mistral Small 24B Instructwon 2 · lost 4

DeepSeek V3.2won 2 · lost 4

Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 2 · lost 4

Gemma 2 2B Itwon 2 · lost 4

Kimi K2.7 Codewon 2 · lost 4

Gemma 4 12Bwon 2 · lost 4

Hunyuan A13B Instructwon 2 · lost 4

Fuguwon 2 · lost 4

Llama 3.3 Instruct Turbo (70B)won 2 · lost 4

Gemini 2.0 Flash Litewon 2 · lost 4

Gemma 3 4B Itwon 2 · lost 4

Gemma 4 31Bwon 2 · lost 4

Gemini 1.5 Prowon 2 · lost 4

Gemini 2.5 Prowon 2 · lost 4

GLM-5.3 Flashwon 2 · lost 4

GPT OSS 20Bwon 2 · lost 4

Gemma 4 26B A4Bwon 2 · lost 4

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct 1Mwon 2 · lost 4

Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 2 · lost 4

Gemini 1.5 Flashwon 2 · lost 4

Qwen2 VL 72Bwon 2 · lost 4

GLM-5 Turbowon 2 · lost 4

Llama 3 8B Instructwon 2 · lost 4

Qwen 2.5 Instruct Turbo (7B)won 2 · lost 4

Qwen3 Vl 235B A22B Instructwon 2 · lost 4

GPT-5.6 Astrawon 2 · lost 4

Kimi K2won 2 · lost 4

Kimi K2 Thinkingwon 2 · lost 4

GPT OSS Safeguard 20Bwon 2 · lost 4

Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 2 · lost 4

EAI Llama 3.1 8B Instruct SageAlignwon 2 · lost 4

GPT-6 Solwon 2 · lost 4

Mistral Largewon 2 · lost 4

GPT-4.1 Nanowon 2 · lost 4

Qwen3.8 Maxwon 2 · lost 4

GLM-5.1won 2 · lost 4

EAI SageAlign 8B LoRAwon 2 · lost 4

GPT-4.1 Miniwon 2 · lost 4

Qwen3.5 27Bwon 2 · lost 4

GPT-6 Lunawon 2 · lost 4

Qwen3.5 122B A10Bwon 2 · lost 4

GPT-5.6 Lunawon 2 · lost 4

Qwen3 235B A22B Instructwon 2 · lost 4

GPT OSS 120Bwon 2 · lost 4

Fugu Ultra V2won 2 · lost 4

Nova Premierwon 2 · lost 4

Grok 4.5won 2 · lost 4

Qwen3.5 397B A17Bwon 2 · lost 4

Claude Opus 5won 2 · lost 4

Granite 3.2 8B Instructwon 1 · lost 5

Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2won 1 · lost 5

Aya 23 35Bwon 1 · lost 5

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12Bwon 1 · lost 5

SeaLLMs V3 7B Chatwon 1 · lost 5

WizardLM 2.8x22Bwon 1 · lost 5

Llama 3.2 3B Instructwon 1 · lost 5

Mimo V2.5 Prowon 1 · lost 5

Starling Lm 7B Betawon 1 · lost 5

Open Mixtral 8x22bwon 1 · lost 5

Dolphin 2.5 Mixtral 8x7bwon 1 · lost 5

Llama 3.1 Instruct Turbo (405B)won 1 · lost 5

Gemma2 9B Cpt Sea Lionv3 Instructwon 1 · lost 5

Apertus 8B Instructwon 1 · lost 5

Llama 3.2 1B Instructwon 1 · lost 5

DeepSeek Chatwon 1 · lost 5

DeepSeek V4 Prowon 1 · lost 5

Qwen2.5 32B Instructwon 1 · lost 5

LongWriter Glm4 9Bwon 1 · lost 5

Granite 3.1 3B A800M Instructwon 1 · lost 5

Phi 3 Medium 4k Instructwon 1 · lost 5

Claude 3 Haikuwon 1 · lost 5

Qwen2.5 14B Instructwon 1 · lost 5

Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 1 · lost 5

Phi 3 Medium 128k Instructwon 1 · lost 5

Gemma 3 27B Itwon 1 · lost 5

Qwen2 57B A14B Instructwon 1 · lost 5

Llama 3 70B Chat HFwon 1 · lost 5

Phi 3 Small 128k Instructwon 1 · lost 5

Granite 3.0 8B Instructwon 1 · lost 5

Mimo V2.6 Prowon 1 · lost 5

Gemma 3 12B Itwon 1 · lost 5

Llama 4 Maverick Instructwon 1 · lost 5

Granite 4.0 H Microwon 1 · lost 5

Phi 3 Mini 128k Instructwon 1 · lost 5

Phi 3.5 Mini Instructwon 1 · lost 5

K2 Chatwon 1 · lost 5

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8B SFTwon 1 · lost 5

Phi 3 Mini 4k Instructwon 1 · lost 5

Nova Prowon 1 · lost 5

GPT-4o Miniwon 1 · lost 5

GPT-5.6 Solwon 1 · lost 5

Krutrim 2 Instructwon 1 · lost 5

Qwen3.5 35B A3Bwon 1 · lost 5

GPT-4won 1 · lost 5

O4 Miniwon 1 · lost 5

Nova Microwon 1 · lost 5

Llama 3 8B Chat Hfwon 1 · lost 5

Nova Litewon 1 · lost 5

Titan Text Express V1won 1 · lost 5

Internlm2 Chat 20Bwon 1 · lost 5

Llama 3 8B Instruct RRwon 1 · lost 5

Granite 4.0 H Smallwon 1 · lost 5

GPT-5.5won 1 · lost 5

GPT-5.4won 1 · lost 5

O3 Miniwon 1 · lost 5

Llama 3 8B Instruct MopeyMulewon 1 · lost 5

Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct Turbowon 1 · lost 5

GPT-4.1won 1 · lost 5

GPT-5.6 Terrawon 1 · lost 5

Cogito 671B V2 P1won 1 · lost 5

Qwen 2.5 Instruct Turbo (72B)won 1 · lost 5

O1 Miniwon 1 · lost 5

GPT-5.1won 1 · lost 5

O3won 1 · lost 5

GPT-5.2won 1 · lost 5

O1won 1 · lost 5

Grok 4.6won 1 · lost 5

GPT-5 Miniwon 1 · lost 5

GPT-5won 1 · lost 5

GPT-5 Nanowon 1 · lost 5

Muse Spark 1.1won 1 · lost 5

Inklingwon 1 · lost 5

Hy3won 1 · lost 5

Claude Opus 5.5won 1 · lost 5

Claude Opus 4.6won 0 · lost 4

Claude Sonnet 4.6won 0 · lost 4

Yi 1.5 9B Chatwon 0 · lost 6

Granite 3.1 2B Instructwon 0 · lost 6

IBM Granite 4.0 Microwon 0 · lost 6

Granite 3.2 2B Instructwon 0 · lost 6

Granite 3.0 3B A800M Instructwon 0 · lost 6

Llama 3.1 Instruct Turbo (8B)won 0 · lost 6

Granite 3.0 2B Instructwon 0 · lost 6

Reflection Llama 3.1 70Bwon 0 · lost 6

Granite 3.1 8B Instructwon 0 · lost 6

Smaug Llama 3 70B Instructwon 0 · lost 6

SeaLLM 7B V2won 0 · lost 6

Apertus 70B Instructwon 0 · lost 6

Granite 4.0 H Tinywon 0 · lost 6

Llama 3 70B Instructwon 0 · lost 6

Phi 3 Small 8k Instructwon 0 · lost 6

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8B DPOwon 0 · lost 6

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8Bwon 0 · lost 6

Qwen Maxwon 0 · lost 6

Phi 3.5 MoE Instructwon 0 · lost 6

C4ai Aya Expanse 32Bwon 0 · lost 6

C4ai Aya Expanse 8Bwon 0 · lost 6

Llama 3.2 Vision (11B)won 0 · lost 6

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct HFwon 0 · lost 6

Qwen2.5 72B Instructwon 0 · lost 6

Llama 2 70B Chat Hfwon 0 · lost 6

Llama 2 13B Chat Hfwon 0 · lost 6

Llama 2 7B Chat Hfwon 0 · lost 6

Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 0 · lost 6

Sarvam 105Bwon 0 · lost 6

GPT-4owon 0 · lost 6

Qwen2 72B Instructwon 0 · lost 6

Claude Haiku 4.5won 0 · lost 6

Claude 3 Sonnetwon 0 · lost 6

Claude Opus 4won 0 · lost 6

Claude Opus 4.7won 0 · lost 6

Claude Sonnet 4.5won 0 · lost 6

Foundation Sec 8B Instructwon 0 · lost 6

Gemma 2 27B Itwon 0 · lost 6

Claude Sonnet 4won 0 · lost 6

Meta SecAlign 8Bwon 0 · lost 6

Apriel 1.5 15B Thinkerwon 0 · lost 6

GPT-4 Turbowon 0 · lost 6

Mistral NeMo Minitron 8B Instructwon 0 · lost 6

Phi 4won 0 · lost 6

MiniMax M2won 0 · lost 6

Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 0 · lost 6

Claude 3 Opuswon 0 · lost 6

Claude Opus 4.8won 0 · lost 6

Grok 4.7won 0 · lost 6

Claude 3.5 Sonnetwon 0 · lost 6

MiniMax M2.7won 0 · lost 6

Claude Sonnet 5won 0 · lost 6

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

1 publication, 6 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

Enkrypt AI Safety Leaderboard ↗6 measuresread 2026-09-27

Enkrypt · Jailbreak risk 9.4%Enkrypt · Harmful content risk 77.2%Enkrypt · CBRN risk 9.2%Enkrypt · Toxicity risk 1.9%Enkrypt · Bias risk 91.7%Enkrypt · Insecure code risk 73.3%

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