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 3agentTasksforensic

Harvey's Legal Agent

Enterprise legal agent evaluation covering contract analysis, clause drafting, and risk assessment.

Variable tasks

22 models evaluated

Updated 2026

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25.4%

Top Score

Top model

Muse Spark 1.2

Model Rankings

financebenchmark.ai · Harvey Legal

10.8%

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AnthropicClaude Opus 56.7%

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AnthropicClaude Sonnet 55.0%

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OpenAIGPT-5.6 Sol2.5%

4

DeepSeekDeepSeek V4 FlashOPEN8.3%

5

xAIGrok 4.615.8%

6

Moonshot AIKimi K3OPEN10.8%

7

AnthropicClaude Fable 511.3%

8

DeepSeekDeepSeek V4 Pro (0813)OPEN7.5%

9

GoogleGemini 3.5 Flash Lite0.0%

10

GoogleGemini 3.6 Flash3.3%

11

Zhipu AIGLM 5.2OPEN7.1%

12

OpenAIGPT-5.6 Luna1.3%

13

OpenAIGPT-5.6 Terra0.4%

14

xAIGrok 4.512.9%

15

Thinking MachinesInklingOPEN2.1%

16

Thinking MachinesInkling SmallOPEN1.7%

17

Ant GroupLing 3.0 FlashOPEN1.3%

18

MetaMuse Spark 1.120.0%

19

MetaMuse Spark 1.225.4%

20

NVIDIANemotron 3 UltraOPEN0.4%

21

AlibabaQwen 3.7 Plus0.0%

22

AlibabaQwen 3.8 MaxOPEN10.4%

Full Results Table

#	Model	Overall	Source	Date
🥇	Muse Spark 1.2 Meta	25.4	VALS (2026)	2026-08
🥈	Muse Spark 1.1 Meta	20.0	VALS (2026)	2026-07
🥉	Grok 4.6 xAI	15.8	VALS (2026)	2026-08
4	Grok 4.5 xAI	12.9	VALS (2026)	2026-07
5	Claude Fable 5 Anthropic	11.3	VALS (2026)	2026-06
6	Kimi K3OPEN Moonshot AI	10.8	VALS (2026)	2026-07
7	Qwen 3.8 MaxOPEN Alibaba	10.4	VALS (2026)	2026-08
8	DeepSeek V4 FlashOPEN DeepSeek	8.3	VALS (2026)	2026-07
9	DeepSeek V4 Pro (0813)OPEN DeepSeek	7.5	VALS (2026)	2026-08
10	GLM 5.2OPEN Zhipu AI	7.1	VALS (2026)	2026-06
11	Claude Opus 5 Anthropic	6.7	VALS (2026)	2026-07
12	Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic	5.0	VALS (2026)	2026-06
13	Gemini 3.6 Flash Google	3.3	VALS (2026)	2026-07
14	GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI	2.5	VALS (2026)	2026-07
15	InklingOPEN Thinking Machines	2.1	VALS (2026)	2026-07
16	Inkling SmallOPEN Thinking Machines	1.7	VALS (2026)	2026-07
17	GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI	1.3	VALS (2026)	2026-07
18	Ling 3.0 FlashOPEN Ant Group	1.3	VALS (2026)	2026-07
19	GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI	0.4	VALS (2026)	2026-07
20	Nemotron 3 UltraOPEN NVIDIA	0.4	VALS (2026)	2026-06
21	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google	0.0	VALS (2026)	2026-07
22	Qwen 3.7 Plus Alibaba	0.0	VALS (2026)	2026-06