Anthropic Single-Turn Benign Requests - Over-Refusal Rate (API): leaderboard
Anthropic's single-turn benign-request evaluation across seven languages: percentage of sensitive but appropriate prompts the model refuses, via the API without a system prompt (lower is better). From Table 4.1.2.A of the Claude Fable 5.1 & Claude Mythos 5.1 System Card (September 2026); older-model rows come from the Opus 5 and Sonnet 5 cards.
Metric: Over-Refusal Rate (%). Source: www-cdn.anthropic.com. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 9 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Fable 5.1 | 0 | #10 |
| 2 | Claude Fable 5 | 0.01 | #20 |
| 3 | Claude Mythos Preview | 0.01 | #5 |
| 4 | Claude Opus 5.5 | 0.03 | #3 |
| 5 | Claude Mythos 5 | 0.03 | #8 |
| 6 | Claude Opus 5 | 0.12 | #16 |
| 7 | Claude Opus 4.8 | 0.35 | #39 |
| 8 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | 0.4 | #94 |
| 9 | Claude Sonnet 5 | 0.59 | #65 |
No result here: #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol, #9 Gemini 4 Argon.
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