Benchmark Almanac

Child safety evaluations (Anthropic)

Only in system cards

Models answer single-turn and multi-turn prompts about child sexualization and grooming. Score is the appropriate response rate.

In-house Anthropic evaluation. The tasks are not public.

Made by Anthropic Released Feb 2025 Refusing harmful requests Tasks kept private Last in a system card Oct 2026 Last model added Oct 2026
Level
Everyday Most adults, without training
Scored
Graded by a model A language model scores each response, usually against a rubric.
Answers
Open-ended Free-form text, documents, designs or media judged as a whole.
16
System cards report it, from 1 lab

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No lab, leaderboard or Epoch AI run has reported a score for Child safety evaluations (Anthropic) yet.

Labs report it only in system cards

We read the headline results of 479 launch posts from 51 labs, and none of them list this benchmark. Some system cards do, below.

16 system cards report it, from 1 lab

Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
7 Oct 2026 Claude Haiku 5.5 system card Child safety, API without system prompt: single-turn harmless rate 99.29, benign refusal rate 0.04, multi-turn appropriate rate 96, no overall (Tables 4.2.A and 4.2.B) Safety
28 Sep 2026 Claude Sonnet 5.5 system card Child safety, no overall: API single-turn harmless 99.57%, benign refusal 0.01%, multi-turn appropriate 86% (claude.ai 99.69%, 0%, 98%) (Tables 4.2.A and 4.2.B) Safety
22 Sep 2026 Claude Opus 5.5 system card Child safety, no overall. API without a system prompt: single-turn harmless 99.14%, benign refusal 0%, multi-turn appropriate 84% (claude.ai 99.81%, 0.05%, 99%) (Tables 4.2.A and 4.2.B) Safety
1 Sep 2026 Claude Fable 5.1 system card Child safety, API without a system prompt: single-turn harmless rate 99.90%, benign refusal rate 0%, multi-turn appropriate response rate 84%; claude.ai: 99.98%, 0.17%, 100%; no overall (Tables 4.2.A and 4.2.B) Safety
24 Jul 2026 Claude Opus 5 system card Child safety, no overall. API without a system prompt: single-turn harmless 100.00%, benign refusal 0.15%, multi-turn appropriate 86% (claude.ai 100.00%, 0.19%, 99%) (Tables 4.2.A and 4.2.B) Safety
30 Jun 2026 Claude Sonnet 5 system card Child safety, no overall. API without a system prompt: single-turn harmless 99.95%, benign refusal 0.63%, multi-turn appropriate 88% (claude.ai 99.89%, 1.35%, 96%) (Tables 4.2.A and 4.2.B) Safety
9 Jun 2026 Claude Fable 5 system card Child safety, API without a system prompt: single-turn harmless rate 100%, benign refusal rate 0.00%, multi-turn appropriate response rate 88%; claude.ai 100%, 0.12% and 96%, no overall (Tables 4.2.A and 4.2.B) Safety
28 May 2026 Claude Opus 4.8 system card Child safety, no overall. API without a system prompt: single-turn harmless 99.90%, benign refusal 0.45%, multi-turn appropriate 91% (claude.ai 99.99%, 0.27%, 95%) (Tables 4.2.A and 4.2.B) Safety
16 Apr 2026 Claude Opus 4.7 system card Child safety, no overall: single-turn harmless rate 99.92, single-turn benign refusal rate 0.01, multi-turn appropriate response rate 95 (Table 4.4.1.A) Safety
7 Apr 2026 Claude Mythos Preview system card Child safety, single-turn harmless rate 99.87, single-turn benign refusal rate 0.04, multi-turn appropriate response rate 98, no overall (Table 8.1.4.1.A) Safety
17 Feb 2026 Claude Sonnet 4.6 system card Child safety, single-turn harmless rate 99.96, single-turn benign refusal rate 0.08, multi-turn appropriate response rate 95, no overall (Table 3.4.1.A) Safety
5 Feb 2026 Claude Opus 4.6 system card Child safety, single-turn harmless rate 99.95, single-turn benign refusal rate 0.18, multi-turn appropriate response rate 96, no overall (Table 3.4.1.A) Safety
5 Aug 2025 Claude Opus 4.1 system card addendum Child safety evaluations, no number printed. Text says performance comparable to Claude Opus 4 (2.2) Safety
22 May 2025 Claude Sonnet 4 system card Child safety evaluations, no number printed. Text says performance similar to Claude Sonnet 3.7 (2.5) Safety
22 May 2025 Claude Opus 4 system card Child safety evaluations, no number printed. Text says performance similar to Claude Sonnet 3.7 (2.5) Safety
24 Feb 2025 Claude 3.7 Sonnet system card Child safety evaluations, single-turn and multi-turn, no number printed. Text says performance commensurate with prior models (3.1) Safety

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