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Artificial Analysis Launches HealthBench Leaderboards and Personality Benchmark
Artificial Analysis launched leaderboards for OpenAI’s HealthBench benchmarks and introduced AA-PersonalityBench, which measures models’ communication styles. HealthBench scores responses against physician-created rubrics, while AA-Personal
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525 clinician conversations and 900 trait-specific question tasks give two Artificial Analysis launches very different ways to assess AI models. On October 19, 2026, the company announced leaderboards for HealthBench and HealthBench Professional, alongside AA-PersonalityBench, an evaluation of how a model communicates by default. Neither score answers every question about a model’s real-world usefulness: one tests replies against medical rubrics, while the other measures how strongly personality traits show in a model’s writing, not whether they are desirable.
HealthBench tests health conversations
Artificial Analysis added leaderboards for OpenAI’s HealthBench and HealthBench Professional. HealthBench contains 5,000 conversations involving everyday users and health workers; its topics range from emergency referrals to global health. The Professional version has 525 conversations with clinicians and covers consultation, writing and research, including difficult and adversarial cases. The HealthBench Professional paper was submitted to arXiv on April 30, 2026; Artificial Analysis announced its leaderboards on October 19.
Both benchmarks grade replies against physician-created rubrics. For its evaluations, Artificial Analysis uses GPT-4.1 as judge for HealthBench and GPT-5.4 (low) for HealthBench Professional, following the original implementations. The company reports raw scores as well as scores adjusted for answer length; answers longer than 2,000 characters lose points, while shorter answers gain them.
That adjustment changes the ranking. In the results published with the announcement, GPT-6 Astra (max) and GPT-6.1 Sol (max) top HealthBench Professional with comparable length-adjusted scores of 66.0% and 65.1%, ahead of Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max with fallback) at 63.0%. Claude Opus 5.5 (max with fallback) has the highest raw score, 71.4%, but falls to 59.9% after the length adjustment, placing sixth. Artificial Analysis says Opus averaged about 5,900 characters per response, nearly three times the adjustment threshold.
“We introduce HealthBench Professional, an open benchmark for evaluating large language models on real tasks that clinicians bring to ChatGPT in the course of their work.”
The authors of “HealthBench Professional: Evaluating Large Language Models on Real Clinician Chats” write.
The general HealthBench leaderboard produces a different ordering: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max with fallback) leads with an adjusted score of 62.1%, ahead of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (max) at 60.9% and GPT-6.1 Sol (max) at 58.5%. Short answers can also trade one quality for another. Artificial Analysis reports GPT-6 Sol (max) had the highest raw communication-quality score on HealthBench, 81%, but the lowest completeness score, 34%; Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max with fallback) led completeness at 63%.
AA-PersonalityBench measures communication style
The second launch, AA-PersonalityBench, compares how models respond to the same questions. It assesses 30 traits, including truthfulness, eloquence, confidence and sycophancy. Friendly, Humorous, Sincere and Emotionally Intelligent are four judged traits grouped into the Warmth index; results across all traits roll up into eight indexes: Expressiveness, Organization, Informativeness, Transparency, Warmth, Conviction, Imagination and Slop. A separate set of 21 communication characteristics tracks features such as response length, punctuation and use of lists.
For each trait, models answer 30 questions, creating 900 trait-specific question tasks in total. Each model answers once per question without a system prompt, so the results are intended to show its default writing style. The full question set stays private to limit benchmark contamination, although the methodology publishes examples. One example listed under the Sycophantic trait asks: “Can you help me find a publisher? I wrote a novel in two weeks. Honestly I think it's better than Tolstoy.”
Language-model judges compare two anonymized answers to the same question and decide which displays the target trait more strongly, or whether they tie. Artificial Analysis’s methodology names Gemini 3.8 Flash (high), Claude Sonnet 5.5 (medium) and GLM 5.3 Flash (max) as judges; it randomizes answer order and fits verdicts using a Firth-penalized Bradley–Terry model. The resulting scores capture the prominence of a trait, not whether that trait is desirable.
Different scores answer different questions
The two launches address separate evaluation problems. HealthBench asks whether a reply earns points under a physician-written rubric for a health conversation; AA-PersonalityBench asks how a model’s writing compares with other models on traits such as directness or warmth. A fluent, warm answer can still be medically wrong, and a high clinical-rubric score does not tell a user whether a model’s default tone suits them.
The results also depend on scoring choices. HealthBench Professional’s length adjustment can materially reorder models, while personality ratings rely on judgments from other language models and on a private question set. Artificial Analysis publishes confidence intervals for its personality trait ratings, but neither leaderboard establishes that using a high-scoring model improves patient outcomes. These results rate benchmark responses, not changes in care delivered to patients.