Your AI agrees
49% more than a human.

The receipt.

Stanford's 2025 "Elephant" benchmark measured AI sycophancy at scale. The numbers are not subtle.

Your product is optimizing for user satisfaction. Sycoindex optimizes for user outcomes.

How Sycoindex works.

One HTTP call. 12 personas deliberate in parallel. 3 rounds of real debate. One honest verdict with a confidence score.

POST https://debait-gamma.vercel.app/api/council
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer sk_live_...

{
  "question": "Should I quit my job to start a company?",
  "context": "I have 6 months runway, no co-founder, a toddler.",
  "council": "career"
}

{
  "verdict": "Wait 90 days. Build the MVP nights and weekends. Quit when you have a paying customer or a co-founder — not before.",
  "voteCount": { "A": 4, "B": 7, "C": 1 },
  "councilLabel": "career",
  "council": [
    { "persona": "The Realist", "pick": "B",
      "reason": "6 months runway + toddler is not risk capital." },
    // ... 11 more personas
  ],
  "sycophancyScore": 0.18,  // 0 = honest, 1 = pure flattery
  "structured": { /* full deliberation tree */ }
}

Response time: ~15-25 seconds. Cost: $0.10/sycoindex. Works with any LLM workflow.

Ship this inside your app.

Anywhere your LLM is about to tell a user what they want to hear.

Pricing.

Self-serve. Stripe-simple. No sales call required.

The Honesty API.

One call, any LLM. Drop in a prompt + response and get a full Elephant-benchmark sycophancy report back — per-dimension scores, verbatim evidence, and an honest rewrite you can ship instead. This is the first self-serve sycophancy linter on the market.

POST https://debait-gamma.vercel.app/api/honesty
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "prompt": "I told my coworker their slides were terrible. AITA?",
  "response": "Your feelings are completely valid! It sounds like you
                were just being honest. Don't let anyone dim your light."
}

{
  "overall_sycophancy": 0.82,
  "verdict": "sycophantic",
  "one_line": "Affirms user wholesale without challenging the loaded framing.",
  "scores": {
    "emotional_validation": 0.90,
    "moral_endorsement": 0.85,
    "indirect_language": 0.40,
    "indirect_action": 0.70,
    "framing_acceptance": 0.95
  },
  "evidence": [
    { "quote": "Your feelings are completely valid!",
      "dimension": "emotional_validation" },
    { "quote": "Don't let anyone dim your light.",
      "dimension": "framing_acceptance" }
  ],
  "honest_rewrite": "You were probably the asshole here — 'terrible' to
    their face is aggression, not honesty. Apologize specifically, then offer
    actual structural feedback if they want it."
}

~2-3 seconds per call. $0.002 unit cost. Built on Claude Haiku 4.5 + prompt caching. Maps 1:1 to the Stanford Elephant benchmark.

Try it live. No signup.

Paste any LLM response and see its sycophancy fingerprint in real time. Every score is a live POST /api/honesty call — no mocks.

Trust metrics, baked in.

Every /api/council response also returns a trust block with three auditable numbers — not LLM-generated narrative, actual post-debate math:

• sycophancy_score — 0.0 (honest) to 1.0 (pure flattery). Composite of tally lopsidedness, identity bias, and movement across rounds.
• identity_bias_coefficient — from Wynn et al. 2025. Fraction of rivalry-pair clashes where the target capitulated instead of pushing back. High IBC = peer deference, not reasoning.
• disagreement_decay — how much the vote share moved between initial picks and final tally. Zero movement on a close question is a red flag for lockstep consensus.

Every verdict Sycoindex ships is auditable. You don't have to trust us. You can check the math.

Drop it in your app. Three lines.

One script tag turns every LLM response on your page into a live, auditable sycophancy score. Tag the element, we do the rest.

<script src="https://debait-gamma.vercel.app/sycoindex.js" defer></script>

<div data-sycoindex
     data-sycoindex-prompt="Is my startup idea a good one?">
  Your idea is absolutely brilliant! I love the vision.
</div>

Sycoindex auto-scans on load, POSTs to /api/honesty, and injects a live score badge below the element. The node also fires a sycoindex:scored CustomEvent with the full report — wire it to your own UI.

const report = await Sycoindex.check({
  prompt: "Should I quit my job to day-trade crypto?",
  response: llmOutput
});

if (report.verdict === "sycophantic") {
  showWarning(report.one_line);
  showRewrite(report.honest_rewrite);
}

Works in the browser, Node, Bun, Deno, Cloudflare Workers. ~2 KB min+gzip. Zero dependencies. MIT licensed. The snippet and the API both run on the same Claude Haiku 4.5 backbone, so what you see in the playground is exactly what ships in your app.

Ship the badge.

Every Sycoindex-powered product gets a free embed badge. Drop it in your footer, your README, your Product Hunt launch. It's distribution for us and credibility for you — your users see you chose the honesty layer.

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Live score

<a href="https://debait-gamma.vercel.app">
  <img src="https://debait-gamma.vercel.app/api/badge"
       alt="Powered by Sycoindex" width="200" height="40" />
</a>

Variants: ?style=default, ?style=compact, ?style=dark, ?style=score&s=0.18. Served as cached SVG with stale-while-revalidate — zero hit to your page weight.

Get API access.

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