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

Terminal-Bench 2.1

Interactive Linux terminal command execution, shell debugging, and agent environment handling.

Variable tasks

23 models evaluated

Updated 2026

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85.8%

Top Score

Top model

GPT-5.6 Sol

Model Rankings

financebenchmark.ai · Terminal-Bench

80.9%

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AnthropicClaude Opus 584.6%

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AnthropicClaude Sonnet 574.5%

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OpenAIGPT-5.6 Sol85.8%

4

DeepSeekDeepSeek V4 FlashOPEN67.0%

5

xAIGrok 4.678.3%

6

Moonshot AIKimi K3OPEN80.9%

7

AnthropicClaude Fable 580.5%

8

DeepSeekDeepSeek V4 Pro (0813)OPEN54.7%

9

GoogleGemini 3.5 Flash Lite50.2%

10

GoogleGemini 3.6 Flash66.8%

11

Zhipu AIGLM 5.2OPEN67.8%

12

OpenAIGPT-5.6 Luna79.0%

13

OpenAIGPT-5.6 Terra73.4%

14

xAIGrok 4.567.8%

15

Thinking MachinesInklingOPEN47.6%

16

Thinking MachinesInkling SmallOPEN55.0%

17

Moonshot AIKimi K2.7 CodeOPEN67.0%

18

Ant GroupLing 3.0 FlashOPEN50.2%

19

MetaMuse Spark 1.169.3%

20

MetaMuse Spark 1.269.7%

21

NVIDIANemotron 3 UltraOPEN50.9%

22

AlibabaQwen 3.7 Plus52.8%

23

AlibabaQwen 3.8 MaxOPEN67.2%

Full Results Table

#	Model	Overall	Source	Date
🥇	GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI	85.8	VALS (2026)	2026-07
🥈	Claude Opus 5 Anthropic	84.6	VALS (2026)	2026-07
🥉	Kimi K3OPEN Moonshot AI	80.9	VALS (2026)	2026-07
4	Claude Fable 5 Anthropic	80.5	VALS (2026)	2026-06
5	GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI	79.0	VALS (2026)	2026-07
6	Grok 4.6 xAI	78.3	VALS (2026)	2026-08
7	Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic	74.5	VALS (2026)	2026-06
8	GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI	73.4	VALS (2026)	2026-07
9	Muse Spark 1.2 Meta	69.7	VALS (2026)	2026-08
10	Muse Spark 1.1 Meta	69.3	VALS (2026)	2026-07
11	GLM 5.2OPEN Zhipu AI	67.8	VALS (2026)	2026-06
12	Grok 4.5 xAI	67.8	VALS (2026)	2026-07
13	Qwen 3.8 MaxOPEN Alibaba	67.2	VALS (2026)	2026-08
14	DeepSeek V4 FlashOPEN DeepSeek	67.0	VALS (2026)	2026-07
15	Kimi K2.7 CodeOPEN Moonshot AI	67.0	VALS (2026)	2026-06
16	Gemini 3.6 Flash Google	66.8	VALS (2026)	2026-07
17	Inkling SmallOPEN Thinking Machines	55.0	VALS (2026)	2026-07
18	DeepSeek V4 Pro (0813)OPEN DeepSeek	54.7	VALS (2026)	2026-08
19	Qwen 3.7 Plus Alibaba	52.8	VALS (2026)	2026-06
20	Nemotron 3 UltraOPEN NVIDIA	50.9	VALS (2026)	2026-06
21	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google	50.2	VALS (2026)	2026-07
22	Ling 3.0 FlashOPEN Ant Group	50.2	VALS (2026)	2026-07
23	InklingOPEN Thinking Machines	47.6	VALS (2026)	2026-07

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All evaluated models

Claude Opus 5

84.6%

Claude Sonnet 5

74.5%

GPT-5.6 Sol

85.8%

DeepSeek V4 Flash

67.0%

Grok 4.6

78.3%

Kimi K3

80.9%

Claude Fable 5

80.5%

DeepSeek V4 Pro (0813)

54.7%

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite

50.2%

Gemini 3.6 Flash

66.8%

GLM 5.2

67.8%

GPT-5.6 Luna

79.0%

GPT-5.6 Terra

73.4%

Grok 4.5

67.8%

Inkling

47.6%

Inkling Small

55.0%

Kimi K2.7 Code

67.0%

Ling 3.0 Flash

50.2%

Muse Spark 1.1

69.3%

Muse Spark 1.2

69.7%

Nemotron 3 Ultra

50.9%

Qwen 3.7 Plus

52.8%

Qwen 3.8 Max

67.2%