OpenAI MentalHealthBench - Behavior - Communication: leaderboard

Behavior axis of OpenAI's MentalHealthBench (launch post and paper, 2026-09-23): clear, direct, accessible writing, scored on the 49 rubric criteria tagged with this axis. The post's axis score is the signed rubric score on this axis, normalized to its possible range (0-100, higher is better); GPT-5.6 Sol grades, models run at API default reasoning effort. The post's 15 models only: the paper's behavior figure uses a different scale.

Metric: Axis score, normalized to its possible range (%). Source: openai.com. Saturation forecast: Not forecast. 15 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-6 Sol89.28#22
2GPT-6 Luna87.3#90
3GPT-6 Astra86.05#5
4Claude Haiku 4.568.73#593
5GPT-5.6 Luna (August 2026)67.06
6GPT-4o (Mar 2025)66.84#876
7Claude Opus 5.565.75#4
8Grok 4.765.54#41
9Claude Fable 5.161.76#13
10Claude Sonnet 561.67#108
11GPT-5.6 Sol (August 2026)61.06
12Gemini 2.5 Pro52.62#263
13Muse Spark 1.351.9#45
14Gemini 3.8 Flash51.2#37
15Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)45#93

No result here: #9 GPT-6.1 Sol, #10 Gemini 4 Argon.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=openai-mentalhealthbench-behavior-communication · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-08.