Do Chatbot LLMs Talk Too Much?
bretkoppel
11 points
4 comments
August 20, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
rektomatic
Yes, yes they do
josefritzishere
This defies Betteridge's law of headlines.
dgfl
They will keep a live leaderboard at https://huggingface.co/spaces/tabularisai/YapBench Here is the top 10 right now: | Rank | Model | YapIndex | YapTax$ | | ---: | ---------------------------------------- | ---------: | ------: | | 1 | openai/gpt-5.6-sol (reasoning) | 18.5 ±4.8 | 0.51 | | 2 | openai/gpt-5.6-sol | 19.2 ±4.4 | 0.51 | | 3 | openai/gpt-3.5-turbo | 22.7 ±4.8 | 0.02 | | 4 | openai/gpt-5.6-luna | 27.8 ±9.8 | 0.15 | | 5 | openai/gpt-5.4 (reasoning) | 40.7 ±10.7 | — | | 6 | openai/gpt-5.4 | 40.7 ±9.0 | — | | 7 | moonshotai/kimi-k2-0905 | 44.7 ±4.8 | 0.05 | | 8 | mistralai/mistral-small-2603 (reasoning) | 46.2 ±31.5 | 0.03 | | 9 | openai/gpt-4 | 51.2 ±20.6 | 1.39 | | 10 | openai/gpt-5.3-codex | 64.8 ±9.9 | — | I also checked how the Claude models did specifically: | Rank | Model | YapIndex | YapTax$ | | ---: | --------------------------------------- | ----------: | ------: | | 23 | anthropic/claude-opus-4.5 | 97.0 ±28.9 | 1.52 | | 25 | anthropic/claude-opus-4.5 (reasoning) | 99.2 ±29.3 | 1.44 | | 42 | anthropic/claude-3.5-sonnet | 199.7 ±24.5 | 2.53 | | 57 | anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5 (reasoning) | 278.7 ±41.7 | 1.65 | | 61 | anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5 | 285.0 ±39.4 | 1.63 | | 71 | anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 | 330.3 ±59.1 | — | | 72 | anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 | 333.2 ±26.7 | 0.64 | | 73 | anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 (reasoning) | 335.2 ±26.8 | 0.65 | | 76 | anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 (reasoning) | 342.3 ±30.5 | — | | 87 | anthropic/claude-3.5-haiku | 401.2 ±25.4 | 0.59 | | 88 | anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 (reasoning) | 422.8 ±23.3 | — | | 89 | anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 | 425.0 ±26.3 | — | No other Anthropic model seems to be there for now. I would have been very curious to see the more recent ones.