chat benchmark
EQ-Bench Leaderboard
EQ-Bench is an LLM-judged test of emotional intelligence using 45 challenging roleplay scenarios, most of which are pre-written prompts spanning 3 turns.
Updated Sep 5, 2026
Models2
Model coverage2
MetricScore
EvidenceB
EQ-Bench Ranking
Higher score ranks better on this benchmark.
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Rank | Model | Score | Percentile | Participants | Evidence | Evaluated |
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| Rank01 | ModelXA | Score1,586.00 points | Percentile100.00% | Participants2 | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
| Rank02 | ModelXA | Score1,585.00 points | Percentile0.00% | Participants2 | EvidenceC | Evaluated |
EQ-Bench Highlights
The leading models and scores on this benchmark.
EQ-Bench Score Distribution
A closer view of the leading scores on this benchmark.
The Top AI Models for EQ-Bench
The first five results on this benchmark, with official price and output speed added where the model identity can be matched.
What is EQ-Bench?
What EQ-Bench measures and how its scores work.
EQ-Bench is a chat benchmark that evaluates language models through roleplay scenarios and reports results as a Score in points.
It measures active emotional intelligence abilities, understanding, insight, empathy, and interpersonal skills by validating responses against several criteria and using pairwise comparisons to calculate a normalized Elo for each model.
Scores are shown in points. This benchmark is not independently verified and has an evidence level of B.
- Family
- EQ-Bench
- Modality
- text
- Primary category
- chat
- Score direction
- higher
- LLMBoard eligible
- No
- Evaluation key
- overall
LLM Stats. Benchmark scores retain their original unit. Overall score eligibility is shown separately.
FAQ
Common questions about EQ-Bench.
Which model scores highest on EQ-Bench?
Grok-4.1 Thinking is currently ranked first with 1,586.00 points.
What are the top three models on EQ-Bench?
The current leaders are Grok-4.1 Thinking (1,586.00 points) and Grok-4.1 (1,585.00 points).
Which EQ-Bench model has the lowest official input price?
No matched official input price is currently available.
Which models are fastest among EQ-Bench results?
The fastest matched records are Grok-4.1 (100.00 tok/s via xAI) and Grok-4.1 Thinking (80.00 tok/s via xAI).
Does the highest score result prove overall model quality?
No. This benchmark measures one defined capability or task. The overall LLMBoard score uses a separate aggregation across eligible benchmark evidence.