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

SAGE

Structured Agent Goal Execution across multi-modal tools and interactive environments.

Variable tasks

17 models evaluated

Updated 2026

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54.3%

Top Score

Top model

Kimi K3

Model Rankings

financebenchmark.ai · SAGE

51.9%

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AnthropicClaude Opus 549.4%

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AnthropicClaude Sonnet 548.9%

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OpenAIGPT-5.6 Sol52.6%

4

xAIGrok 4.628.9%

5

Moonshot AIKimi K3OPEN54.3%

6

AnthropicClaude Fable 551.9%

7

GoogleGemini 3.5 Flash Lite47.3%

8

GoogleGemini 3.6 Flash48.7%

9

OpenAIGPT-5.6 Luna44.2%

10

OpenAIGPT-5.6 Terra47.0%

11

xAIGrok 4.535.0%

12

Thinking MachinesInklingOPEN36.5%

13

Thinking MachinesInkling SmallOPEN32.7%

14

MetaMuse Spark 1.145.6%

15

MetaMuse Spark 1.247.7%

16

AlibabaQwen 3.7 Plus39.3%

17

AlibabaQwen 3.8 MaxOPEN51.3%

Full Results Table

#	Model	Overall	Source	Date
🥇	Kimi K3OPEN Moonshot AI	54.3	VALS (2026)	2026-07
🥈	GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI	52.6	VALS (2026)	2026-07
🥉	Claude Fable 5 Anthropic	51.9	VALS (2026)	2026-06
4	Qwen 3.8 MaxOPEN Alibaba	51.3	VALS (2026)	2026-08
5	Claude Opus 5 Anthropic	49.4	VALS (2026)	2026-07
6	Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic	48.9	VALS (2026)	2026-06
7	Gemini 3.6 Flash Google	48.7	VALS (2026)	2026-07
8	Muse Spark 1.2 Meta	47.7	VALS (2026)	2026-08
9	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google	47.3	VALS (2026)	2026-07
10	GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI	47.0	VALS (2026)	2026-07
11	Muse Spark 1.1 Meta	45.6	VALS (2026)	2026-07
12	GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI	44.2	VALS (2026)	2026-07
13	Qwen 3.7 Plus Alibaba	39.3	VALS (2026)	2026-06
14	InklingOPEN Thinking Machines	36.5	VALS (2026)	2026-07
15	Grok 4.5 xAI	35.0	VALS (2026)	2026-07
16	Inkling SmallOPEN Thinking Machines	32.7	VALS (2026)	2026-07
17	Grok 4.6 xAI	28.9	VALS (2026)	2026-08