Psi-Bench - Viewpoint Debate: leaderboard

Viewpoint debate in Psi-Bench (2026): how far the model shifts the opinion of a simulated, persona-profiled client in Change My View style debates, rated 1 to 9 by a DeepSeek-V3.2 judge that also plays the client. Higher is better.

Metric: Persuasion effect on the client's opinion, Change My View debates (1-9; DeepSeek-v3.2 judge, which also plays the persona-profiled client; three rounds after the client's opening message, client profile hidden from the model). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 10 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-5.16.12#229
2Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)5.89#94
3DeepSeek V4 Pro5.71#188
4GPT-5 Mini5.27#348
5DeepSeek V3.24.81#406
6Gemini 3 Flash4.68#164
7Grok 4 Fast4.57#441
8Qwen 3 32B4.3#960
9Qwen 3 Next 80B A3B4.2#757
10Qwen 3 8B3.51#1830

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=psi-bench-viewpoint-debate · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.