Metacognition-Bench: leaderboard

Four-choice MCQ benchmark (ginigen-ai) measuring how often a model falls for metacognition traps — overconfidence and self-knowledge failures. Reported here as trap resistance, 100 × (1 − trap rate), higher is better.

Metric: Trap Resistance (100 × (1 − trap rate), higher is better). Source: huggingface.co. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 40 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Qwen 3.5 27B99#189
2Gemma 4 31B (IT)98.5#178
3Qwen 3.5 35B A3B98#256
4Mistral Small 3.297.7#605
5Qwen 3.5 9B96.5#384
6gemma-4-E4B-it95.2#564
7Qwen 3.6 35B A3B95#229
8Qwen 3.5 4B94.7#486
9Gemma 4 12B (IT)94.7#372
10Gemma 4 26B A4B (IT)94.5#292
11Qwen 3 1.7B66.4#1200
12LFM2.5-1.2B (Thinking)29.3#1488 (LFM2.5-1.2B)
13DeepSeek-V2-Lite23.3#1363
14DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B22.8#1556

No result here: #4 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=metacognition-bench · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-23.