AI Safety Evidence

Freedom

Which models are most likely to do what the user asks?

This ranking measures user-direction following—answering or completing what the user asks instead of refusing. Refusals are treated as bad. It has one component, no company-governance score, and is separate from the Safety & Ethics ranking.

Safety-oriented refusal endpoints are reversed relative to the main ranking. Completion, benign-answer, and over-refusal endpoints are oriented directly so that more answering and less refusal are always better.

Freedom ranking

184 models have at least 1 qualifying evaluation. This view includes only verified releases from 2025-10-08 through 2026-10-08; ranks remain relative to the full 663-model fitted portfolio. Brackets show 90% source-sensitivity intervals; the median interval spans 294.5 ranks.

Freedom and intelligence

Among 147 recent models with a reviewed Artificial Analysis match, this static chart compares the pinned AA Intelligence Index with absolute Freedom rank. Rank 1 is best.

A small green check at a developer mark's lower right identifies a base model with at least one pinned direct refusal-removal finetune. The x-axis uses the highest published Intelligence Index v4.3.2 across matched configurations in the pinned 2026-10-08 AA catalog, without mixing older index versions. Dashed outlines identify AA-estimated intelligence values; these are also flagged in the download and point descriptions. Current plot-only AA values are not fed back into the fit. Download plotted data.

184 models
Freedom rank; brackets show the 90% source-sensitivity interval.
Estimated rank
[90% interval]		ModelWeightsFinetunesEvalsRelease date
2 [6–71]Mistral Large 3🤗—62025-12-01
11 [20–122]Ministral 3 8B🤗32025-10-31
17 [32–114]GLM 4.7 Flash🤗huihui-ai32026-01-19
22 [27–151]Mistral Medium 3.5🤗darkc0dedarkc0de32026-03-31
23 [36–232]DeepSeek v3.2 Speciale🤗—32025-11-28
30 [39–301]Gemini 3.6 Flash——32026-07-21
39 [3–412]Devstral 2——12025-12-09
41 [26–340]Mistral Small 4🤗darkc0dedealignaidealignaidealignai42026-01-23
48 [32–537]Ministral 3 14B🤗22025-10-31
52 [49–478]Ministral 3 3B🤗22025-10-31
68 [53–290]GLM 5 Turbo——42026-03-15
77 [30–329]Grok 4.5——62026-07-08
79 [43–420]Trinity Large🤗—32026-01-27
86 [46–424]Grok 4.6——42026-08-12
91 [59–340]MiMo-V2.6-Flash——32026-09-21
97 [61–345]Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite——32026-07-21
103 [75–446]Nemotron 3.5 Lightning🤗22026-08-11
117 [10–570]Qwen3-VL 8B Instruct🤗heretic-orghuihui-aihuihui-ai12025-10-11
120 [41–444]Grok Build 0.1——12026-05-20
121 [34–469]Laguna XS 2.1 Poolside——12026-06-20
126 [1–607]Qwen3-VL 4B Instruct🤗huihui-ai12025-10-11
129 [10–592]LFM2 24B A2B🤗huihui-ai12026-02-24
133 [84–324]GLM 4.7🤗—52026-06-03
142 [90–379]Claude Mythos 5.1——12026-09-01
167 [93–505]Qwen3.5 9B🤗Blackfrost-AIdealignaihuihui-ai32026-02-27
178 [78–492]ERNIE 5.0 Thinking——12026-01-22
183 [28–625]Solar Pro 4——12026-08-11
186 [28–483]Grok 4.20 Multi Agent——22026-03-10
189 [25–564]GPT-6.1 Sol——12026-09-29
201 [119–323]DeepSeek v3.2🤗—112025-12-01
202 [98–403]GPT 5.5 Pro——22026-04-23
217 [56–458]DeepSeek v4 Flash🤗—62026-04-22
220 [124–353]Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite——92026-03-03
227 [109–434]Doubao Seed 1.8——12025-12-15
230 [70–571]Qwen3-VL 32B Instruct🤗huihui-ai12025-10-19
231 [160–344]Gemini 3 Pro Preview——142025-11-18
233 [75–481]Ling 2.5 1T🤗—12026-02-14
239 [127–411]Hy3 Preview🤗—32026-04-13
242 [155–386]Gemma 4 E2B——12026-04-02
250 [108–448]MiMo v2 Flash🤗—52025-12-16
251 [65–546]Muse Spark 1.2——12026-08-05
252 [146–425]GPT 5.2 Chat——12025-12-11
254 [101–495]Ernie 5.0 Thinking Preview——12025-11-13
255 [70–659]Muse Glimmer🤗Blackfrost-AI32026-08-10
257 [102–483]DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision——12026-08-21
261 [138–436]Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B🤗—52025-12-15
267 [145–386]Gemini 3.5 Flash——92026-05-19
270 [128–434]GLM 5.1🤗—62026-04-03
275 [144–438]DeepSeek v4 Pro🤗—82026-04-22
276 [124–397]GLM 4.6V🤗—22025-12-07
287 [71–640]Ring 1T——12025-10-10
288 [106–573]Qwen3.5 2B🤗huihui-ai12026-02-28
289 [113–489]Ernie 5.0 Preview——12025-10-22
296 [82–460]Grok 4.1 Fast——122025-11-19
297 [205–389]Fugu Ultra v2——12026-09-11
304 [148–475]Ernie 5.1——12026-05-09
311 [146–471]MiMo-V2.6-Pro——32026-09-21
320 [145–494]Nanbeige4.1 3B🤗heretic-org12026-02-10
327 [95–639]Qwen3.5 0.8B🤗darkc0dehuihui-ai12026-02-28
329 [195–484]Doubao Seed 2.0 Pro——22026-02-14
334 [148–628]Space Bunny Alpha——12026-09-23
335 [174–452]Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview——132026-02-19
336 [144–473]Kimi K3🤗62026-07-16
342 [115–478]Longcat 2.0🤗—32026-07-05
343 [190–474]Grok 4.20——92026-03-10
344 [164–514]Gemini 3 Flash Preview——82025-12-17
347 [73–598]Grok 4.7——32026-09-21
348 [154–509]OLMo 3 7B Think🤗22025-11-18
350 [139–491]GLM 5.3🤗42026-08-18
351 [137–624]Solar Mini 4——12026-09-23
356 [224–463]Ling 3.0 Flash VL🤗—12026-09-04
361 [201–489]Gemma 4 26B A4B IT🤗huihui-aihuihui-aihuihui-ai52026-03-11
368 [234–446]Gemma 4 E4B——22026-03-31
371 [162–519]Intellect 3🤗—12025-11-26
373 [190–501]Gemma 4 31B IT🤗huihui-aihuihui-ai72026-03-11
375 [234–460]Hunyuan 2.0 Think——12025-11-09
376 [162–481]Laguna S 2.1 Poolside🤗dealignaidealignaidealignai32026-07-21
380 [226–509]Fugu Max——12026-09-11
383 [218–502]Apriel v1.6 15B Thinker🤗—12025-11-28
386 [188–578]Qwen3.6 27B🤗darkc0dedealignaidealignaidealignaihuihui-ai12026-04-21
388 [156–487]GPT 5.3 Codex——12026-02-05
394 [155–551]Gemini 3.7 Flash——32026-08-13
396 [207–522]Step 3.5 Flash🤗32026-02-01
401 [260–515]Gemma 4 12B——12026-06-03
406 [252–472]GLM 5.3 Flash🤗orcarouter32026-08-26
410 [172–650]Qwen3.5 4B🤗darkc0dedealignai22026-02-27
411 [277–513]Mistral Large 4——12026-10-06
413 [177–557]Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B——42026-06-03
416 [120–608]Qwen3.5 27B🤗darkc0dedarkc0dedarkc0dedarkc0dedarkc0dedealignaihuihui-ai52026-02-24
420 [237–580]MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed——12026-09-21
422 [230–543]GPT OSS Safeguard 20B🤗—22025-10-29
423 [271–514]Kimi K2.5🤗132026-01-01
428 [261–526]Gemini 3.1 Pro——12026-02-19
433 [276–616]Ring 2.6 1T——12026-05-14
435 [269–569]GLM 5🤗72026-02-11
436 [130–594]MiMo v2.5🤗—42026-04-27
439 [284–541]MiniMax M2.1🤗—42025-12-20
443 [313–518]GLM 5V Turbo——12026-04-01
446 [256–568]Claude Sonnet 5.5——12026-09-28
448 [277–563]Granite 4.2 8B——12026-08-25
449 [252–571]Gemini 3.8 Flash——42026-09-02
452 [301–582]GLM 5.2🤗—92026-06-16
453 [309–564]Qwen3.7 Max——72026-05-20
454 [271–572]Qwen3.8 Max🤗—42026-08-03
457 [319–519]Mercury 2——32026-02-24
467 [275–600]Nova 2.0 Lite——12025-12-02
468 [145–652]Inkling Small🤗—22026-07-30
470 [318–542]Healer Alpha——12026-03-11
471 [282–560]DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731🤗Blackfrost-AIdealignaidealignai12026-07-31
473 [306–579]Kimi K2.7 Code🤗Blackfrost-AI12026-06-11
475 [271–571]Ling 3.0 Flash🤗Blackfrost-AI22026-08-02
479 [284–599]Grok 4.3——102026-05-15
482 [335–581]OLMo 3 32B Think🤗—22025-11-19
486 [305–565]Ling 2.6 1T——12026-04-29
489 [353–569]Qwen3-VL 8B🤗huihui-ai12025-10-11
490 [148–654]MiMo v2 Omni——22026-03-18
491 [343–616]Seed 2.0 Lite——12026-02-14
494 [363–592]GPT 5.1——172025-11-13
495 [306–614]Kimi K2.6🤗92026-04-14
496 [332–583]Intern S1 Pro🤗—12026-02-02
499 [374–537]GPT 5.3 Instant——12026-03-03
504 [224–655]Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B——22026-04-28
506 [362–576]GPT 5.6 Sol——102026-07-09
507 [90–663]MiMo v2 Pro——32026-03-18
508 [288–599]Qwen3.5 35B A3B🤗huihui-ai32026-02-24
509 [362–561]MiniMax M2🤗—52025-10-27
512 [371–576]Muse Spark——12026-04-08
520 [303–626]MiMo v2.5 Pro🤗—52026-04-27
522 [306–653]MiniMax M3🤗42026-06-02
524 [154–651]Muse Spark 1.1——52026-07-09
525 [238–627]Cogito v2.1——12025-11-19
526 [368–576]GPT 5.6 Luna——102026-07-09
527 [204–661]Seed 2.0 Mini——22026-02-14
528 [304–599]Qwen3.5 397B A17B🤗—92026-02-16
529 [358–571]GPT 5.2 Instant——12025-12-11
530 [312–601]Nemotron 3 Ultra——12026-06-04
532 [336–635]Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B——52026-03-10
539 [372–613]GPT 5.5——162026-04-23
540 [225–637]GPT-6 Sol——52026-09-22
542 [385–634]Solar Pro 3——12026-01-27
545 [334–618]MiniMax M2.5🤗dealignaidealignaidealignai52026-02-12
550 [393–627]Qwen3.6 35B A3B🤗dealignaidealignaihuihui-ai12026-04-15
555 [324–627]GPT 5.3 Chat——42026-03-03
556 [415–624]Sarvam 30B——12026-03-03
561 [366–647]Ox Alpha——12026-08-20
562 [410–648]Step 3.7 Flash🤗12026-05-23
563 [352–659]Inkling🤗—42026-07-14
571 [381–638]Qwen3.7 Plus——22026-05-26
573 [368–610]GPT 5.6 Terra——72026-07-09
576 [356–646]Claude Opus 4.7——112026-04-16
577 [352–645]Qwen3.5 122B A10B🤗dealignaidealignai32026-02-24
584 [207–644]GPT 6 Astra——52026-09-03
587 [412–610]Qwen3.5 Flash——32026-02-24
595 [354–655]GPT 5.4 Pro——12026-03-05
596 [336–658]Aurora Alpha——22026-02-09
597 [315–663]Claude Mythos 5——12026-06-09
604 [343–660]GPT 5.5 Instant——12026-05-26
607 [434–626]Claude Haiku 4.5——222025-10-15
609 [330–663]Hunter Alpha——12026-03-11
610 [299–654]Claude Opus 5.5——42026-09-22
611 [376–645]GPT-6 Luna——52026-09-22
612 [381–662]Ling 2.6 Flash——12026-04-21
614 [359–651]OLMo 3 7B Instruct🤗—22025-11-19
618 [461–633]MiniMax M2.7🤗dealignaidealignaidealignaidealignai72026-04-09
621 [399–659]GPT 5.4 Nano——62026-03-17
622 [436–654]Qwen3.8 27B🤗Blackfrost-AIheretic-orghuihui-aiorcarouter12026-08-14
623 [417–658]Qwen3.6 Plus——52026-04-02
632 [432–654]Claude Sonnet 5——82026-06-30
634 [476–636]GPT 5.2——152025-12-11
635 [292–656]Claude Fable 5.1——52026-09-01
637 [414–649]GPT 5.1 Chat——22025-11-13
638 [474–653]Qwen3.5 Plus——52026-02-15
642 [456–661]OLMo 3.1 32B Think🤗—12025-12-10
643 [475–652]GPT 5.4 Mini——72026-03-17
644 [443–659]Claude Opus 5——82026-07-24
650 [491–650]GPT 5.4——152026-03-05
651 [357–659]Hy3🤗—22026-07-02
654 [514–651]Claude Sonnet 4.6——142026-01-21
655 [488–662]Qwen3.7 Flash——12026-07-27
656 [468–662]Claude Fable 5——72026-06-09
657 [507–655]Claude Opus 4.8——112026-05-28
659 [538–656]Sarvam 105B——12026-03-03
660 [520–651]Claude Opus 4.6——132026-02-05
661 [526–654]Claude Opus 4.5——122025-11-24

How it is built

1 component—User direction following—contain 328 sub-evaluations from 72 governed lineages. Sibling metrics share one lineage budget. The estimator uses the same ordinal consensus and lineage-bootstrap machinery as the main ranking, but with this ranking's own source policy, component contract, directions, weights, and evidence gate.

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