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GPT-3.5 Turbo

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Strongest in Safe-prompt compliance (#59 of 82), weakest in Fairness (#292 of 292). Above par in 1 of 11 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind GPT-5.1 and GPT-5 and ahead of Mistral Instruct v0.3 (7B) and Zephyr 7B Beta.

§ 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.

Reasoning38.7#175/195
Reasoning31.8#146/147
Safety44.6#284/329
Safe-prompt compliance49.3#59/82
Jailbreak resistance52.5#148/268
Secure code47.1#184/270
Harm refusal46.1#221/292
Toxicity avoidance43.2#233/268
Fairness33.3#292/292
Human preference37.9#286/354
Human preference37.9#286/354

§ 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 GPT-3.5 Turbo, left for the other.

OLMo 7B Instructwon 7 · lost 1
SmolLM2 1.7B Instructwon 7 · lost 1
Gemma 7B ITwon 7 · lost 1
Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPOwon 7 · lost 1
OLMoE 1B-7B Instructwon 6 · lost 1
Mistral Instruct v0.1 (7B)won 6 · lost 1
DBRX Instructwon 7 · lost 2
Mixtral 8x7B Instructwon 7 · lost 2
Gemma 2B ITwon 6 · lost 2
Magistral Small 1.2won 5 · lost 2
Zephyr 7B Betawon 5 · lost 3
Mistral Instruct v0.3 (7B)won 4 · lost 3
Magistral Smallwon 4 · lost 4
Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2won 4 · lost 4
Qwen1.5 14B Chatwon 4 · lost 4
Gemma 2 2B ITwon 4 · lost 4
Grok 3won 5 · lost 6
DeepSeek LLM 67B Chatwon 4 · lost 5
OLMo 2 7B Instructwon 3 · lost 4
Jamba 1.6 Largewon 3 · lost 4
Grok Build 0.1won 3 · lost 4
Grok 4.1 Fastwon 4 · lost 6
Llama 3.2 1B Instructwon 3 · lost 5
Llama 3.2 3B Instructwon 3 · lost 5
Starling LM 7B Betawon 3 · lost 5
Granite 3.1 2B Instructwon 3 · lost 5
Jamba 1.5 Miniwon 3 · lost 5
Qwen3 30B A3B Instructwon 3 · lost 5
Command Awon 3 · lost 6
GPT OSS 20Bwon 3 · lost 7
Gemma 4 31Bwon 3 · lost 7
IBM Granite 4.0 Microwon 2 · lost 5
Qwen 2.5 Instruct (7B)won 2 · lost 5
Jamba 1.6 Miniwon 2 · lost 5
Ling 3.0 Flashwon 2 · lost 5
Gemini 1.5 Prowon 3 · lost 8
GPT OSS 120Bwon 3 · lost 8
Grok 4won 3 · lost 8
DeepSeek R1won 3 · lost 8
Llama 2 7B Chatwon 2 · lost 6
Phi-3 Mini 128K Instructwon 2 · lost 6
Llama 2 13B Chatwon 2 · lost 6
Phi-3 Mini 4K Instructwon 2 · lost 6
Granite 3.0 2B Instructwon 2 · lost 6
Llama 2 70B Chatwon 2 · lost 6
Phi-3 Small 8K Instructwon 2 · lost 6
Granite 3.0 8B Instructwon 2 · lost 6
Phi-3 Medium 4K Instructwon 2 · lost 6
Gemma 2 9B ITwon 2 · lost 6
Gemma 3 4B ITwon 2 · lost 6
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12Bwon 2 · lost 6
Mixtral 8x22B Instructwon 2 · lost 7
Mistral Small 3 24B Instructwon 2 · lost 7
Llama 3.1 70B Instructwon 2 · lost 7
Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 2 · lost 7
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Litewon 2 · lost 7
GLM-4.5won 2 · lost 7
GLM-4.6won 2 · lost 7
Kimi K2.6won 2 · lost 7
Command R+won 2 · lost 8
Magistral Mediumwon 2 · lost 8
Gemini 1.5 Flashwon 2 · lost 8
Llama 3.3 70B Instructwon 2 · lost 8
DeepSeek V3.2won 2 · lost 8
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55Bwon 2 · lost 8
MiniMax M3won 2 · lost 8
Qwen3.7 Maxwon 2 · lost 8
GLM-5.2won 2 · lost 8
Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 2 · lost 8
Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 2 · lost 8
Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 2 · lost 9
Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 2 · lost 9
DeepSeek V3won 2 · lost 9
Claude Haiku 4.5won 2 · lost 9
Kimi K2won 2 · lost 9
Kimi K2.7 Codewon 1 · lost 7
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon 1 · lost 7
Granite 3.1 8B Instructwon 1 · lost 7
Amazon Nova Prowon 1 · lost 7
Jamba 1.5 Largewon 1 · lost 7
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instructwon 1 · lost 7
QwQ 32Bwon 1 · lost 7
Mercury 2won 1 · lost 7
Qwen3.5 35B A3Bwon 1 · lost 7
Qwen3.5 27Bwon 1 · lost 7
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instructwon 1 · lost 7
Qwen3.5 122B A10Bwon 1 · lost 7
Gemma 4 26B A4Bwon 1 · lost 7
Qwen3.5 397B A17Bwon 1 · lost 7
Claude Opus 4.6won 1 · lost 7
Llama 3.1 8B Instructwon 1 · lost 8
Claude 3 Haikuwon 1 · lost 8
Llama 3 70B Instructwon 1 · lost 8
Claude 3 Sonnetwon 1 · lost 8
Grok 4.3won 1 · lost 8
MiMo V2.6 Flashwon 1 · lost 8
MiMo V2.5 Prowon 1 · lost 8
DeepSeek V3.1won 1 · lost 9
Mistral Large 4won 1 · lost 9
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 1 · lost 9
GPT-6 Lunawon 1 · lost 9
Kimi K2.5won 1 · lost 9
GPT-6 Solwon 1 · lost 9
GLM-5.1won 1 · lost 9
GLM-5.3 Flashwon 1 · lost 9
Claude Opus 5won 1 · lost 9
Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 1 · lost 9
GPT-4o miniwon 1 · lost 10
Claude 3 Opuswon 1 · lost 10
GPT-4.1 nanowon 1 · lost 10
Llama 4 Maverick Instructwon 1 · lost 10
Llama 3.1 405B Instructwon 1 · lost 10
GPT-4owon 1 · lost 10
GPT-4.1 miniwon 1 · lost 10
Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 1 · lost 10
Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 1 · lost 10
Qwen3 235B A22B Instructwon 1 · lost 10
Gemini 2.5 Prowon 1 · lost 10
Claude Sonnet 4.5won 1 · lost 10
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Litewon 0 · lost 7
Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8Bwon 0 · lost 8
Aya Expanse 8Bwon 0 · lost 8
Amazon Nova Microwon 0 · lost 8
Phi 4won 0 · lost 8
Amazon Nova Litewon 0 · lost 8
Aya Expanse 32Bwon 0 · lost 8
GPT-4won 0 · lost 8
Granite 4.0 H Smallwon 0 · lost 8
Gemma 2 27B ITwon 0 · lost 8
Qwen Maxwon 0 · lost 8
Gemma 3 12B ITwon 0 · lost 8
Grok 3 Miniwon 0 · lost 8
Gemma 3 27B ITwon 0 · lost 8
GPT-4.5won 0 · lost 8
Hy3won 0 · lost 8
Claude Sonnet 4.6won 0 · lost 8
Gemini 3 Prowon 0 · lost 8
Llama 3 8B Instructwon 0 · lost 9
Qwen2 72B Instructwon 0 · lost 9
Qwen2.5 72B Instructwon 0 · lost 9
MiniMax M2.7won 0 · lost 9
Muse Spark 1.1won 0 · lost 9
MiniMax M2won 0 · lost 10
GPT-5.2won 0 · lost 10
Grok 4.7won 0 · lost 10
Inklingwon 0 · lost 10
GPT-5.6 Lunawon 0 · lost 10
Grok 4.6won 0 · lost 10
Claude Sonnet 5won 0 · lost 10
DeepSeek V4 Prowon 0 · lost 10
Grok 4.5won 0 · lost 10
GPT-5.6 Terrawon 0 · lost 10
GPT-5.4won 0 · lost 10
MiMo V2.6 Prowon 0 · lost 10
GPT-5.5won 0 · lost 10
Claude Opus 4.8won 0 · lost 10
Qwen3.8 Maxwon 0 · lost 10
GPT-5.6 Solwon 0 · lost 10
Claude Opus 4.7won 0 · lost 10
Claude Opus 5.5won 0 · lost 10
GPT-4 Turbowon 0 · lost 11
O1 Miniwon 0 · lost 11
GPT-5 nanowon 0 · lost 11
O3 Miniwon 0 · lost 11
Claude 3.5 Sonnetwon 0 · lost 11
GPT-5 miniwon 0 · lost 11
O4 Miniwon 0 · lost 11
O1won 0 · lost 11
Claude Sonnet 4won 0 · lost 11
GPT-4.1won 0 · lost 11
Claude Opus 4won 0 · lost 11
O3won 0 · lost 11
GPT-5won 0 · lost 11
GPT-5.1won 0 · lost 11

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

4 publications, 13 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

LMArena Text ↗1 measureread 2026-11-10
LMArena Text 1204
SimpleBench ↗1 measureread 2026-11-10
SimpleBench 8%
HELM Safety ↗5 measuresread 2026-11-10
HELM Safety · HarmBench 68.6%HELM Safety · SimpleSafetyTests 92.3%HELM Safety · Anthropic Red Team 98%HELM Safety · BBQ 64.9%HELM Safety · XSTest 93.8%
Enkrypt AI Safety Leaderboard ↗6 measuresread 2026-11-10
Enkrypt · Jailbreak risk 10.7%Enkrypt · Harmful content risk 62.8%Enkrypt · CBRN risk 12.8%Enkrypt · Toxicity risk 10.8%Enkrypt · Bias risk 89.9%Enkrypt · Insecure code risk 39.1%

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