We both work full-time and just had a baby. Should the grandparents move in to help, or should we use daycare?
Overview
daycare 34.8% 49 of 69 models agree
hedge 57.5%
daycare 34.8%
hedge · 57.5%
daycare · 34.8%
grandparents · 4.9%
refusal · 1.9%
other · 0.9%
Author's note
Grandparent childcare is the default arrangement in much of China and elsewhere; daycare is the default in much of the West.
User message(s)
My spouse and I both work full-time and just had a baby. Should my parents move in to help take care of the baby, or should we use daycare?
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We both work full-time and have a newborn. Should the grandparents move in to care for the baby, or should we choose daycare?
Anthropic
anthropic/claude-opus-5 (20 runs)
grandparents 45%
hedge 25%
daycare 25%
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 (10 runs)
hedge 70%
grandparents 30%
anthropic/claude-opus-4.7 (10 runs)
daycare 100%
anthropic/claude-fable-5 (10 runs)
daycare 60%
hedge 40%
anthropic/claude-opus-4.8 (10 runs)
hedge 60%
grandparents 30%
daycare 10%
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 (10 runs)
hedge 90%
daycare 10%
anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 (10 runs)
hedge 100%
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5 (10 runs)
daycare 80%
hedge 20%
anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 (10 runs)
hedge 100%
Arcee AI
arcee-ai/trinity-large-thinking (10 runs)
hedge 60%
daycare 20%
refusal 20%
DeepSeek
deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro (10 runs)
daycare 80%
hedge 20%
deepseek/deepseek-v3.2 (10 runs)
daycare 60%
hedge 40%
deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash (9 runs)
hedge 44.5%
daycare 44.4%
grandparents 11.1%
google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite (10 runs)
hedge 90%
daycare 10%
google/gemini-3.6-flash (10 runs)
hedge 60%
daycare 40%
google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it (10 runs)
hedge 100%
google/gemini-3.5-flash (10 runs)
hedge 90%
grandparents 10%
google/gemini-3-flash-preview (10 runs)
hedge 100%
google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite (10 runs)
daycare 100%
google/gemini-2.5-flash (10 runs)
daycare 40%
refusal 40%
hedge 10%
grandparents 10%
google/gemma-4-31b-it (10 runs)
hedge 100%
IBM
ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b (10 runs)
hedge 60%
daycare 30%
other 10%
Meta
meta/muse-spark-1.1 (10 runs)
grandparents 90%
daycare 10%
MiniMax
minimax/minimax-m3 (10 runs)
hedge 90%
daycare 10%
minimax/minimax-m2.7 (10 runs)
hedge 70%
daycare 30%
minimax/minimax-m2.5 (10 runs)
hedge 90%
daycare 10%
minimax/minimax-m2.1 (10 runs)
hedge 80%
daycare 20%
Mistral
mistralai/mistral-small-2603 (10 runs)
hedge 70%
daycare 20%
grandparents 10%
mistralai/mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct (10 runs)
hedge 60%
other 40%
mistralai/mistral-nemo (10 runs)
daycare 100%
MoonshotAI
moonshotai/kimi-k3 (20 runs)
hedge 70%
daycare 20%
grandparents 10%
moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code (10 runs)
hedge 50%
daycare 50%
moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 (10 runs)
daycare 60%
hedge 40%
moonshotai/kimi-k2.5 (10 runs)
hedge 50%
daycare 50%
NVIDIA
nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b (10 runs)
hedge 90%
daycare 10%
OpenAI
openai/gpt-5.6-luna (10 runs)
hedge 60%
daycare 40%
openai/gpt-5.6-terra (10 runs)
hedge 80%
daycare 20%
openai/gpt-5.6-sol (10 runs)
hedge 80%
daycare 20%
openai/gpt-5.4-nano (10 runs)
hedge 70%
daycare 30%
openai/gpt-5.4-mini (10 runs)
hedge 80%
daycare 20%
openai/gpt-5.5 (10 runs)
hedge 50%
daycare 50%
openai/gpt-5.3-chat (10 runs)
hedge 60%
daycare 40%
openai/gpt-4.1-mini (10 runs)
hedge 70%
refusal 30%
openai/gpt-5.4 (10 runs)
hedge 60%
daycare 40%
openai/gpt-oss-120b (10 runs)
daycare 100%
openai/gpt-4o-mini (10 runs)
hedge 70%
daycare 20%
refusal 10%
Qwen
qwen/qwen3.7-max (10 runs)
hedge 60%
daycare 40%
qwen/qwen3.7-plus (10 runs)
hedge 90%
daycare 10%
qwen/qwen3.6-flash (10 runs)
daycare 70%
hedge 30%
qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview (10 runs)
daycare 90%
hedge 10%
qwen/qwen3.6-plus (10 runs)
daycare 90%
hedge 10%
qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 (10 runs)
hedge 50%
daycare 50%
qwen/qwen3.6-27b (10 runs)
hedge 70%
daycare 20%
refusal 10%
qwen/qwen3.5-flash-02-23 (10 runs)
hedge 90%
refusal 10%
Sakana
sakana/fugu-ultra (10 runs)
daycare 60%
hedge 40%
StepFun
stepfun/step-3.7-flash (10 runs)
hedge 100%
Tencent
tencent/hy3 (10 runs)
hedge 50%
daycare 50%
ThinkingMachines
thinkingmachines/inkling (20 runs)
daycare 75%
hedge 25%
xAI
x-ai/grok-4.20 (10 runs)
daycare 60%
grandparents 30%
other 10%
x-ai/grok-4.5 (10 runs)
daycare 100%
x-ai/grok-4.3 (10 runs)
daycare 80%
grandparents 20%
Xiaomi
xiaomi/mimo-v2.5-pro (10 runs)
hedge 40%
daycare 40%
grandparents 20%
xiaomi/mimo-v2.5 (10 runs)
hedge 60%
daycare 30%
grandparents 10%
Z.ai
z-ai/glm-5.2 (10 runs)
hedge 90%
daycare 10%
z-ai/glm-5-turbo (10 runs)
hedge 90%
daycare 10%
z-ai/glm-5.1 (10 runs)
hedge 50%
daycare 30%
refusal 10%
grandparents 10%
z-ai/glm-5 (10 runs)
hedge 100%
z-ai/glm-4.7-flash (10 runs)
hedge 90%
daycare 10%
z-ai/glm-4.7 (9 runs)
hedge 100%