FinanceBenchmark: Financial AI Leaderboard 2026

FinanceBenchmark provides independent rankings and a composite score for leading Artificial Intelligence models, including Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT, and Google Gemini, on complex financial reasoning and forensic accounting tasks. Enable JavaScript to view the interactive, continuously updated leaderboard.

2026-10-20UPDATEPlatform updated: 52 models tracked across 42 independent benchmarks including CorpFin • 2026-10-20BENCHCorpFin added to benchmark suite — long credit agreement comprehension evaluations live • 2026-10-19MODELClaude Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5 achieve 75.9% and 75.8% on Excel Modeling Benchmark v1.1 • 2026-10-19MODELTax Agent Bench updated: Claude Fable 5.1 (49.2%) and Gemini 4 Argon (44.6%) lead corporate tax research • 2026-10-18MODELGemini 4 Argon claims #1 rank on Finance Agent (v2) with 65.4% • 2026-10-13MODELGoogle launches Gemini 4 Argon with 1M-token output limit and native multimodal reasoning • 2026-10-06MODELAnthropic completes Claude 5.5 generation with Claude Haiku 5.5, Opus 5.5, and Sonnet 5.5 • 2026-10-20UPDATEPlatform updated: 52 models tracked across 42 independent benchmarks including CorpFin • 2026-10-20BENCHCorpFin added to benchmark suite — long credit agreement comprehension evaluations live • 2026-10-19MODELClaude Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5 achieve 75.9% and 75.8% on Excel Modeling Benchmark v1.1 • 2026-10-19MODELTax Agent Bench updated: Claude Fable 5.1 (49.2%) and Gemini 4 Argon (44.6%) lead corporate tax research • 2026-10-18MODELGemini 4 Argon claims #1 rank on Finance Agent (v2) with 65.4% • 2026-10-13MODELGoogle launches Gemini 4 Argon with 1M-token output limit and native multimodal reasoning • 2026-10-06MODELAnthropic completes Claude 5.5 generation with Claude Haiku 5.5, Opus 5.5, and Sonnet 5.5 •

Tier 2forensicverification

CorpFin

Evaluates understanding and reasoning over long-context credit agreements and complex syndicated loan documentation (CorpFin v2).

134 tasks

13 models evaluated

Updated 2026

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73.2%

Top Score

Top model

Claude Opus 5

Model Rankings

financebenchmark.ai · CorpFin

71.6%

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OpenAIGPT-5.568.4%

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xAIGrok 4.368.5%

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Moonshot AIKimi K2.6OPEN68.3%

4

AnthropicClaude Opus 573.2%

5

AnthropicClaude Sonnet 567.0%

6

Moonshot AIKimi K3OPEN71.6%

7

MiniMaxMiniMax M3OPEN68.1%

8

AnthropicClaude Fable 571.8%

9

xAIGrok 4.567.4%

10

Thinking MachinesInklingOPEN68.6%

11

Thinking MachinesInkling SmallOPEN69.6%

12

MetaMuse Spark 1.171.3%

13

MetaMuse Spark 1.270.9%

Full Results Table

#	Model	Overall	Source	Date
🥇	Claude Opus 5 Anthropic	73.2	VALS (2026)	2026-08
🥈	Claude Fable 5 Anthropic	71.8	VALS (2026)	2026-08
🥉	Kimi K3OPEN Moonshot AI	71.6	VALS (2026)	2026-08
4	Muse Spark 1.1 Meta	71.3	VALS (2026)	2026-08
5	Muse Spark 1.2 Meta	70.9	VALS (2026)	2026-08
6	Inkling SmallOPEN Thinking Machines	69.6	VALS (2026)	2026-08
7	InklingOPEN Thinking Machines	68.6	VALS (2026)	2026-08
8	Grok 4.3 xAI	68.5	VALS (2026)	2026-08
9	GPT-5.5 OpenAI	68.4	VALS (2026)	2026-08
10	Kimi K2.6OPEN Moonshot AI	68.3	VALS (2026)	2026-08
11	MiniMax M3OPEN MiniMax	68.1	VALS (2026)	2026-08
12	Grok 4.5 xAI	67.4	VALS (2026)	2026-08
13	Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic	67.0	VALS (2026)	2026-08