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 3verificationforensic

Public Benefits Bench

Evaluates civic policy compliance, public benefits eligibility, and regulatory adjudication.

Variable tasks

16 models evaluated

Updated 2026

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76.9%

Top Score

Top model

Claude Opus 5

Model Rankings

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70.4%

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AnthropicClaude Opus 576.9%

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AnthropicClaude Sonnet 566.0%

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OpenAIGPT-5.6 Sol66.5%

4

xAIGrok 4.666.8%

5

Moonshot AIKimi K3OPEN68.3%

6

AnthropicClaude Fable 570.4%

7

GoogleGemini 3.5 Flash Lite51.8%

8

GoogleGemini 3.6 Flash56.6%

9

OpenAIGPT-5.6 Luna61.2%

10

OpenAIGPT-5.6 Terra62.4%

11

Thinking MachinesInklingOPEN58.5%

12

Thinking MachinesInkling SmallOPEN59.4%

13

Ant GroupLing 3.0 FlashOPEN50.7%

14

MetaMuse Spark 1.161.3%

15

MetaMuse Spark 1.268.5%

16

AlibabaQwen 3.8 MaxOPEN67.1%

Full Results Table

#	Model	Overall	Source	Date
🥇	Claude Opus 5 Anthropic	76.9	VALS (2026)	2026-07
🥈	Claude Fable 5 Anthropic	70.4	VALS (2026)	2026-06
🥉	Muse Spark 1.2 Meta	68.5	VALS (2026)	2026-08
4	Kimi K3OPEN Moonshot AI	68.3	VALS (2026)	2026-07
5	Qwen 3.8 MaxOPEN Alibaba	67.1	VALS (2026)	2026-08
6	Grok 4.6 xAI	66.8	VALS (2026)	2026-08
7	GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI	66.5	VALS (2026)	2026-07
8	Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic	66.0	VALS (2026)	2026-06
9	GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI	62.4	VALS (2026)	2026-07
10	Muse Spark 1.1 Meta	61.3	VALS (2026)	2026-07
11	GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI	61.2	VALS (2026)	2026-07
12	Inkling SmallOPEN Thinking Machines	59.4	VALS (2026)	2026-07
13	InklingOPEN Thinking Machines	58.5	VALS (2026)	2026-07
14	Gemini 3.6 Flash Google	56.6	VALS (2026)	2026-07
15	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google	51.8	VALS (2026)	2026-07
16	Ling 3.0 FlashOPEN Ant Group	50.7	VALS (2026)	2026-07