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 3agentTasks

LiveCodeBench

Contamination-free competitive programming and code completion benchmark.

Variable tasks

19 models evaluated

Updated 2026

arXiv:2403.07974

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89.8%

Top Score

Top model

Claude Fable 5

Model Rankings

financebenchmark.ai · LiveCodeBench

87.2%

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AnthropicClaude Opus 589.0%

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AnthropicClaude Sonnet 582.4%

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OpenAIGPT-5.6 Sol82.6%

4

DeepSeekDeepSeek V4 FlashOPEN87.3%

5

xAIGrok 4.688.2%

6

Moonshot AIKimi K3OPEN87.2%

7

AnthropicClaude Fable 589.8%

8

GoogleGemini 3.5 Flash Lite79.0%

9

GoogleGemini 3.6 Flash88.0%

10

Zhipu AIGLM 5.2OPEN69.5%

11

OpenAIGPT-5.6 Terra85.9%

12

xAIGrok 4.587.3%

13

Thinking MachinesInklingOPEN85.5%

14

Thinking MachinesInkling SmallOPEN85.9%

15

Moonshot AIKimi K2.7 CodeOPEN82.0%

16

Ant GroupLing 3.0 FlashOPEN84.0%

17

MetaMuse Spark 1.185.9%

18

NVIDIANemotron 3 UltraOPEN86.0%

19

AlibabaQwen 3.8 MaxOPEN87.8%

Full Results Table

#	Model	Overall	Source	Date
🥇	Claude Fable 5 Anthropic	89.8	arXiv:2403.07974	2026-06
🥈	Claude Opus 5 Anthropic	89.0	arXiv:2403.07974	2026-07
🥉	Grok 4.6 xAI	88.2	arXiv:2403.07974	2026-08
4	Gemini 3.6 Flash Google	88.0	arXiv:2403.07974	2026-07
5	Qwen 3.8 MaxOPEN Alibaba	87.8	arXiv:2403.07974	2026-08
6	Grok 4.5 xAI	87.3	arXiv:2403.07974	2026-07
7	DeepSeek V4 FlashOPEN DeepSeek	87.3	arXiv:2403.07974	2026-07
8	Kimi K3OPEN Moonshot AI	87.2	arXiv:2403.07974	2026-07
9	Nemotron 3 UltraOPEN NVIDIA	86.0	arXiv:2403.07974	2026-06
10	GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI	85.9	arXiv:2403.07974	2026-07
11	Inkling SmallOPEN Thinking Machines	85.9	arXiv:2403.07974	2026-07
12	Muse Spark 1.1 Meta	85.9	arXiv:2403.07974	2026-07
13	InklingOPEN Thinking Machines	85.5	arXiv:2403.07974	2026-07
14	Ling 3.0 FlashOPEN Ant Group	84.0	arXiv:2403.07974	2026-07
15	GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI	82.6	arXiv:2403.07974	2026-07
16	Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic	82.4	arXiv:2403.07974	2026-06
17	Kimi K2.7 CodeOPEN Moonshot AI	82.0	arXiv:2403.07974	2026-06
18	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google	79.0	arXiv:2403.07974	2026-07
19	GLM 5.2OPEN Zhipu AI	69.5	arXiv:2403.07974	2026-06