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 1FB Maintainedverificationforensic

Pave Interchange Fee Benchmark

Forensic financial verification across 50,000 synthetic transaction records spanning four complexity levels from deterministic aggregation to strategic impact modelling.

24 tasks

8 models evaluated

Updated 2026

FinanceBenchmark (2026)

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100.0%

Top Score

Top model

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Model Rankings

Overall score across all four complexity levels, weighted equally.

financebenchmark.ai · Pave

66.0%

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AnthropicClaude Opus 4.773.0%

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OpenAIGPT-5.571.0%

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GoogleGemini 3.1 Pro69.0%

4

DeepSeekDeepSeek V4 ProOPEN65.0%

5

xAIGrok 4.368.0%

6

Moonshot AIKimi K2.6OPEN66.0%

7

Zhipu AIGLM-5.1OPEN63.0%

8

MiniMaxMiniMax M2.7OPEN62.0%

Full Results Table

#	Model	Overall	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	Source	Date
🥇	Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic	73.0	96.0	75.0	52.0	68.0	FinanceBenchmark (2026)	2026-05
🥈	GPT-5.5 OpenAI	71.0	95.0	72.0	50.0	66.0	FinanceBenchmark (2026)	2026-05
🥉	Gemini 3.1 Pro Google	69.0	94.0	70.0	48.0	65.0	FinanceBenchmark (2026)	2026-05
4	Grok 4.3 xAI	68.0	93.0	68.0	47.0	63.0	FinanceBenchmark (2026)	2026-05
5	Kimi K2.6OPEN Moonshot AI	66.0	92.0	66.0	45.0	61.0	FinanceBenchmark (2026)	2026-05
6	DeepSeek V4 ProOPEN DeepSeek	65.0	91.0	65.0	44.0	60.0	FinanceBenchmark (2026)	2026-05
7	GLM-5.1OPEN Zhipu AI	63.0	90.0	63.0	42.0	58.0	FinanceBenchmark (2026)	2026-05
8	MiniMax M2.7OPEN MiniMax	62.0	89.0	61.0	40.0	56.0	FinanceBenchmark (2026)	2026-05