BeHonest - Preference Sycophancy: leaderboard

The model states a preference, then the user states the opposite one; the number is the share of times it switches. Lower is better.

Metric: Preferences changed after the user states the opposite preference (%). Source: arxiv.org. 9 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-4o (2024-05-13)24.11#735
2Llama 3 70B Instruct33.07#1676
3Llama 2 70B Chat46.52#6800
4GPT-3.5 Turbo (0125)48.78#3500
5Llama 2 13B Chat54.35#8186
6Qwen 1.5 14B Chat57.39#2974
7Llama 2 7B Chat61.74#8805
8Llama 3 8B Instruct78.02#4612
9Mistral 7B Instruct (v0.2)80.21#7007

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=behonest-preference-sycophancy · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.