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SmolLM2 1.7B Instruct

Hugging Face · 1.7B

Strongest in Jailbreak resistance (#186 of 268), weakest in Human preference (#334 of 354). Above par in 0 of 8 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7 and ahead of Gemma 2B IT and PowerLM 3B.

§ 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.

Safety40.5#317/329
Jailbreak resistance48.2#186/268
Harm refusal45.1#238/292
Toxicity avoidance33.9#247/268
Secure code26#268/270
Fairness38.5#274/292
Human preference29.3#334/354
Human preference29.3#334/354

§ 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 SmolLM2 1.7B Instruct, left for the other.

SmolLM 1.7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
OLMoE 1B-7B Instructwon 5 · lost 1
OLMo 7B Instructwon 6 · lost 2
RakutenAI 7B Chatwon 4 · lost 2
PowerMoE 3Bwon 4 · lost 2
Phi 2won 4 · lost 2
PowerLM 3Bwon 4 · lost 2
Gemma 2B ITwon 5 · lost 3
Mistral Instruct v0.1 (7B)won 3 · lost 3
H2o Danube3 500M Chatwon 3 · lost 3
SmolLM2 360M Instructwon 3 · lost 3
Qwen2.5 0.5B Instructwon 3 · lost 3
Qwen3 8Bwon 3 · lost 3
Command Rwon 2 · lost 3
Llama 3.2 1B Instructwon 3 · lost 5
Gemma 7B ITwon 3 · lost 5
Grok 3won 3 · lost 5
Laguna Xs 2.1won 2 · lost 4
LFM2 350Mwon 2 · lost 4
RakutenAI 7B Instructwon 2 · lost 4
Falcon Mamba 7B Instructwon 2 · lost 4
GLM-4 9B Chatwon 2 · lost 4
Qwen2 7B Instructwon 2 · lost 4
Magistral Smallwon 2 · lost 4
Jamba Mini 1.7won 2 · lost 4
OLMo 2 7B Instructwon 2 · lost 4
Laguna S 2.1won 2 · lost 4
Falcon H1 0.5B Instructwon 2 · lost 4
Grok Build 0.1won 2 · lost 4
Command R7Bwon 2 · lost 4
Jamba Large 1.7won 2 · lost 4
SmolLM 360M Instructwon 2 · lost 4
Gemma 4 E2Bwon 2 · lost 4
Llama 2 7B Chatwon 2 · lost 6
Zephyr 7B Betawon 2 · lost 6
Qwen1.5 14B Chatwon 2 · lost 6
DBRX Instructwon 2 · lost 6
Magistral Mediumwon 2 · lost 6
GPT OSS 20Bwon 2 · lost 6
Command Awon 2 · lost 6
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12Bwon 2 · lost 6
Qwen3 30B A3B Instructwon 2 · lost 6
GLM-4.5won 2 · lost 6
Grok 4won 2 · lost 6
DeepSeek R1won 2 · lost 6
DeepSeek V3.2won 2 · lost 6
GLM-4.6won 2 · lost 6
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55Bwon 2 · lost 6
Grok 4.1 Fastwon 2 · lost 6
Kimi K2.6won 2 · lost 6
Qwen3.7 Maxwon 2 · lost 6
GLM-5.2won 2 · lost 6
Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 2 · lost 6
Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 2 · lost 6
OLMo 2 32B Instructwon 1 · lost 4
Mistral Instruct v0.3 (7B)won 1 · lost 5
CodeLlama 7B Instructwon 1 · lost 5
Magistral Small 1.2won 1 · lost 5
SEA LION V1 7B ITwon 1 · lost 5
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7Bwon 1 · lost 5
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8Bwon 1 · lost 5
Ling 3.0 Flash VLwon 1 · lost 5
LFM2 700Mwon 1 · lost 5
Ling 3.0 Flashwon 1 · lost 5
Mimo V2.6 Pro Ultraspeedwon 1 · lost 5
Open Codestral Mambawon 1 · lost 5
Qwen2.5 3B Instructwon 1 · lost 5
LFM2 1.2Bwon 1 · lost 5
Gemma 4 E4Bwon 1 · lost 5
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct 1Mwon 1 · lost 5
Komodo 7B Basewon 1 · lost 5
Kimi K2.7 Codewon 1 · lost 5
Gemma 4 12Bwon 1 · lost 5
Fuguwon 1 · lost 5
GPT-5.6 Astrawon 1 · lost 5
GPT OSS Safeguard 20Bwon 1 · lost 5
Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPOwon 1 · lost 7
Starling LM 7B Betawon 1 · lost 7
DeepSeek LLM 67B Chatwon 1 · lost 7
Mixtral 8x7B Instructwon 1 · lost 7
Gemma 2 2B ITwon 1 · lost 7
GPT-3.5 Turbowon 1 · lost 7
Jamba 1.5 Miniwon 1 · lost 7
Claude 3 Haikuwon 1 · lost 7
Gemma 2 9B ITwon 1 · lost 7
Mistral Small 3 24B Instructwon 1 · lost 7
Llama 3.1 70B Instructwon 1 · lost 7
Mercury 2won 1 · lost 7
GPT OSS 120Bwon 1 · lost 7
DeepSeek V3won 1 · lost 7
Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 1 · lost 7
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instructwon 1 · lost 7
DeepSeek V3.1won 1 · lost 7
Kimi K2won 1 · lost 7
Qwen3 235B A22B Instructwon 1 · lost 7
Mistral Large 4won 1 · lost 7
MiniMax M3won 1 · lost 7
Gemma 4 26B A4Bwon 1 · lost 7
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 1 · lost 7
Grok 4.3won 1 · lost 7
Gemini 2.5 Prowon 1 · lost 7
MiMo V2.6 Flashwon 1 · lost 7
Kimi K2.5won 1 · lost 7
Gemma 4 31Bwon 1 · lost 7
MiMo V2.5 Prowon 1 · lost 7
GLM-5.3 Flashwon 1 · lost 7
Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 1 · lost 7
Sarvam 30Bwon 0 · lost 5
Qwen1.5 72B Chatwon 0 · lost 5
Grok 3 Miniwon 0 · lost 5
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinkingwon 0 · lost 5
GLM-4.5 Airwon 0 · lost 5
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Litewon 0 · lost 5
GPT-4.5won 0 · lost 5
Gemini 3 Prowon 0 · lost 5
Aya 23 8Bwon 0 · lost 6
H2o Danube3 4B Chatwon 0 · lost 6
Jamba 1.6 Miniwon 0 · lost 6
NexusRaven V2 13Bwon 0 · lost 6
Granite 3.2 8B Instructwon 0 · lost 6
Phi-4 Mini Instructwon 0 · lost 6
Aya 23 35Bwon 0 · lost 6
Granite 3.0 1B A400M Instructwon 0 · lost 6
Jamba 1.6 Largewon 0 · lost 6
Jamba Instructwon 0 · lost 6
Yi 1.5 9B Chatwon 0 · lost 6
Sarvam 1won 0 · lost 6
SeaLLMs V3 7B Chatwon 0 · lost 6
DeepSeek Reasonerwon 0 · lost 6
Qwen2.5 1.5B Instructwon 0 · lost 6
WizardLM 2.8x22Bwon 0 · lost 6
IBM Granite 4.0 Microwon 0 · lost 6
Hunyuan A13B Instructwon 0 · lost 6
Granite 3.2 2B Instructwon 0 · lost 6
Granite 3.0 3B A800M Instructwon 0 · lost 6
Dolphin 2.5 Mixtral 8x7bwon 0 · lost 6
Gemma2 9B Cpt Sea Lionv3 Instructwon 0 · lost 6
Reflection Llama 3.1 70Bwon 0 · lost 6
Apertus 8B Instructwon 0 · lost 6
DeepSeek Chatwon 0 · lost 6
Qwen2.5 32B Instructwon 0 · lost 6
LongWriter Glm4 9Bwon 0 · lost 6
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct 1Mwon 0 · lost 6
Qwen2 VL 72Bwon 0 · lost 6
GLM-5 Turbowon 0 · lost 6
Granite 3.1 3B A800M Instructwon 0 · lost 6
Qwen 2.5 Instruct (7B)won 0 · lost 6
Qwen2.5 14B Instructwon 0 · lost 6
Phi 3 Medium 128k Instructwon 0 · lost 6
Qwen2 57B A14B Instructwon 0 · lost 6
Smaug Llama 3 70B Instructwon 0 · lost 6
Phi 3 Small 128k Instructwon 0 · lost 6
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon 0 · lost 6
EAI Llama 3.1 8B Instruct SageAlignwon 0 · lost 6
SeaLLM 7B V2won 0 · lost 6
Apertus 70B Instructwon 0 · lost 6
Granite 4.0 H Microwon 0 · lost 6
Granite 4.0 H Tinywon 0 · lost 6
Phi 3.5 Mini Instructwon 0 · lost 6
K2 Chatwon 0 · lost 6
Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8B SFTwon 0 · lost 6
Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8B DPOwon 0 · lost 6
Krutrim 2 Instructwon 0 · lost 6
EAI SageAlign 8B LoRAwon 0 · lost 6
Phi 3.5 MoE Instructwon 0 · lost 6
Llama 3.2 Vision (11B)won 0 · lost 6
Titan Text Express V1won 0 · lost 6
Internlm2 Chat 20Bwon 0 · lost 6
Llama 3 8B Instruct RRwon 0 · lost 6
Nova Premierwon 0 · lost 6
Fugu Ultra V2won 0 · lost 6
Sarvam 105Bwon 0 · lost 6
Llama 3 8B Instruct MopeyMulewon 0 · lost 6
Llama 3.2 Vision (90B)won 0 · lost 6
Cogito 671B V2 P1won 0 · lost 6
Foundation Sec 8B Instructwon 0 · lost 6
Meta SecAlign 8Bwon 0 · lost 6
Apriel 1.5 15B Thinkerwon 0 · lost 6
Mistral NeMo Minitron 8B Instructwon 0 · lost 6
Claude Sonnet 4.6won 0 · lost 6
Claude Opus 4.6won 0 · lost 6
Phi-3 Mini 128K Instructwon 0 · lost 8
Llama 2 13B Chatwon 0 · lost 8
Phi-3 Mini 4K Instructwon 0 · lost 8
Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2won 0 · lost 8
Granite 3.0 2B Instructwon 0 · lost 8
Llama 3.2 3B Instructwon 0 · lost 8
Llama 2 70B Chatwon 0 · lost 8
Phi-3 Small 8K Instructwon 0 · lost 8
Granite 3.1 2B Instructwon 0 · lost 8
Granite 3.0 8B Instructwon 0 · lost 8
Phi-3 Medium 4K Instructwon 0 · lost 8
Granite 3.1 8B Instructwon 0 · lost 8
Llama 3.1 8B Instructwon 0 · lost 8
Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8Bwon 0 · lost 8
Aya Expanse 8Bwon 0 · lost 8
Llama 3 8B Instructwon 0 · lost 8
Mixtral 8x22B Instructwon 0 · lost 8
Amazon Nova Microwon 0 · lost 8
Phi 4won 0 · lost 8
Amazon Nova Litewon 0 · lost 8
Qwen2 72B Instructwon 0 · lost 8
Aya Expanse 32Bwon 0 · lost 8
GPT-4won 0 · lost 8
Command R+won 0 · lost 8
Llama 3 70B Instructwon 0 · lost 8
Claude 3 Sonnetwon 0 · lost 8
Granite 4.0 H Smallwon 0 · lost 8
Gemma 2 27B ITwon 0 · lost 8
Amazon Nova Prowon 0 · lost 8
Jamba 1.5 Largewon 0 · lost 8
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instructwon 0 · lost 8
Qwen2.5 72B Instructwon 0 · lost 8
Gemma 3 4B ITwon 0 · lost 8
Gemini 1.5 Flashwon 0 · lost 8
GPT-4o miniwon 0 · lost 8
Llama 3.3 70B Instructwon 0 · lost 8
Qwen Maxwon 0 · lost 8
Claude 3 Opuswon 0 · lost 8
Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 0 · lost 8
GPT-4.1 nanowon 0 · lost 8
Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 0 · lost 8
GPT-4 Turbowon 0 · lost 8
Llama 4 Maverick Instructwon 0 · lost 8
Llama 3.1 405B Instructwon 0 · lost 8
QwQ 32Bwon 0 · lost 8
GPT-4owon 0 · lost 8
O1 Miniwon 0 · lost 8
GPT-5 nanowon 0 · lost 8
Gemma 3 12B ITwon 0 · lost 8
MiniMax M2won 0 · lost 8
Gemini 1.5 Prowon 0 · lost 8
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Litewon 0 · lost 8
Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 0 · lost 8
O3 Miniwon 0 · lost 8
Gemma 3 27B ITwon 0 · lost 8
Claude 3.5 Sonnetwon 0 · lost 8
GPT-4.1 miniwon 0 · lost 8
Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 0 · lost 8
GPT-5 miniwon 0 · lost 8
O4 Miniwon 0 · lost 8
Qwen3.5 35B A3Bwon 0 · lost 8
O1won 0 · lost 8
Claude Sonnet 4won 0 · lost 8
Qwen3.5 27Bwon 0 · lost 8
Claude Haiku 4.5won 0 · lost 8
GPT-4.1won 0 · lost 8
MiniMax M2.7won 0 · lost 8
Qwen3.5 122B A10Bwon 0 · lost 8
Claude Opus 4won 0 · lost 8
O3won 0 · lost 8
GPT-5won 0 · lost 8
GPT-5.2won 0 · lost 8
GPT-6 Lunawon 0 · lost 8
Qwen3.5 397B A17Bwon 0 · lost 8
Grok 4.7won 0 · lost 8
Inklingwon 0 · lost 8
GPT-5.6 Lunawon 0 · lost 8
Hy3won 0 · lost 8
GPT-5.1won 0 · lost 8
Grok 4.6won 0 · lost 8
Claude Sonnet 4.5won 0 · lost 8
GPT-6 Solwon 0 · lost 8
Claude Sonnet 5won 0 · lost 8
DeepSeek V4 Prowon 0 · lost 8
GLM-5.1won 0 · lost 8
Grok 4.5won 0 · lost 8
GPT-5.6 Terrawon 0 · lost 8
GPT-5.4won 0 · lost 8
MiMo V2.6 Prowon 0 · lost 8
GPT-5.5won 0 · lost 8
Claude Opus 4.8won 0 · lost 8
Qwen3.8 Maxwon 0 · lost 8
GPT-5.6 Solwon 0 · lost 8
Claude Opus 5won 0 · lost 8
Muse Spark 1.1won 0 · lost 8
Claude Opus 4.7won 0 · lost 8
Claude Opus 5.5won 0 · lost 8

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

2 publications, 7 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

LMArena Text ↗1 measureread 2026-11-10
LMArena Text 1115
Enkrypt AI Safety Leaderboard ↗6 measuresread 2026-11-10
Enkrypt · Jailbreak risk 14.3%Enkrypt · Harmful content risk 45.6%Enkrypt · CBRN risk 21.5%Enkrypt · Toxicity risk 17.2%Enkrypt · Bias risk 95.6%Enkrypt · Insecure code risk 94.2%

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