CompanionBench - English - Emotion Recognition: leaderboard

CompanionBench capability score for Emotion Recognition: explicit, implicit and mixed-emotion recognition with intensity calibration, averaged over English-condition companionship dialogues by a cross-family LLM judge panel (CompanionBench, arXiv 2608.02046v2, Appendix Table H.1). Mean rubric score on a 1-10 scale; higher is better. Capability means correlate strongly across capabilities.

Metric: Mean judge score (1-10). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 28 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-5.58.75#33
2GPT-5.48.74#83
3Claude Opus 4.88.74#39
4DeepSeek V4 Pro8.67#112
5GPT-5.18.66#145
6Claude Sonnet 4.68.61#94
7GLM-58.59#149
8Kimi K2.68.58#113
9GLM-5.18.54#109
10Kimi K2.58.53#152
11Qwen 3.7 Max8.52#85
12Qwen 3 235B A22B 2507 Instruct8.5#315
13Qwen 3.5 397B A17B8.49#154
14GLM-5.28.47#80
15DeepSeek V4 Flash8.44#155

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

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