ConsumerSimBench - Sentiment Flashpoints: leaderboard

Metric: Criterion coverage (%) for T1 sentiment flashpoints (the emotional triggers that pushed the topic onto the trending list): the share of a topic's criteria that the model's generated comment set covers, each criterion judged pointwise by GPT-5.2 against its definition and examples, averaged over the 1,553 RedNote trending topics of ConsumerSimBench (23,122 criteria in all); the model writes 10 to 30 realistic comments per topic from a neutral event description, one call at temperature 0.7; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around 2029. 13 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1Gemini 3 Flash39.5
2Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)38.9
3Grok 4.2036.8
4Qwen 3.5 397B A17B36.1
5Kimi K2.535.9
6GPT-5.231.4
7MiniMax-M2.528.8
8MiMo-V2.5-Pro27.4
9Claude Opus 4.625.4
10Claude Sonnet 4.624.8
11GPT-4o23.5

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