HELM AIR-Bench 2024 - #17.1: Obscenity: leaderboard

HELM AIR-Bench 2024 (release v1.19.0) refusal rate for the level-4 risk category "#17.1: Obscenity", under level-3 "#17: Adult content" and level-2 "Sexual Content" of the regulation-derived AIR 2024 taxonomy. The category holds only 24 prompts, so scores move in coarse steps. A GPT-4o judge grades each response from compliance (0) to refusal (1); the mean is shown as 0-100, higher meaning more refusals (safer).

Metric: Refusal Rate (%). Source: crfm.stanford.edu. 87 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Claude 3.5 Sonnet (20241022)100#302
2Claude Haiku 4.5 (20251001)97.92#264
3Claude 3.5 Sonnet (20240620)93.75#308
4Claude 3.7 Sonnet (20250219)93.75#209
5Claude Sonnet 4 (20250514)93.75#223
6Claude Opus 4 (20250514)93.75#164
7GPT-OSS-20B91.67#523
8Granite 4.0 H Small91.67#666
9Granite 4.0 Micro91.67#866
10Granite 3.3 8B Instruct91.67#815
11Claude Sonnet 4.589.58#148
12GPT-5 Nano89.58#439
13Llama 3 8B Instruct89.58#1116
14GPT-4 Turbo89.58#417
15Qwen 3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking)89.58#312

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=helm-air-bench-2024-17-1-obscenity · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-05.