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 1verificationnumericalagentTasks

VALS Index

Holistic evaluation index measuring agent accuracy, reasoning, coding, and specialized domain proficiency.

Variable tasks

22 models evaluated

Updated 2026

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67.2%

Top Score

Top model

Claude Opus 5

Model Rankings

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57.8%

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AnthropicClaude Opus 567.2%

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AnthropicClaude Sonnet 559.6%

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OpenAIGPT-5.6 Sol63.7%

4

DeepSeekDeepSeek V4 FlashOPEN53.6%

5

xAIGrok 4.659.2%

6

Moonshot AIKimi K3OPEN57.8%

7

AnthropicClaude Fable 566.0%

8

DeepSeekDeepSeek V4 Pro (0813)OPEN52.4%

9

GoogleGemini 3.5 Flash Lite36.7%

10

GoogleGemini 3.6 Flash55.4%

11

Zhipu AIGLM 5.2OPEN53.1%

12

OpenAIGPT-5.6 Luna59.9%

13

OpenAIGPT-5.6 Terra56.5%

14

xAIGrok 4.551.5%

15

Thinking MachinesInklingOPEN34.1%

16

Thinking MachinesInkling SmallOPEN31.9%

17

Ant GroupLing 3.0 FlashOPEN21.7%

18

MetaMuse Spark 1.154.8%

19

MetaMuse Spark 1.257.0%

20

NVIDIANemotron 3 UltraOPEN27.4%

21

AlibabaQwen 3.7 Plus38.6%

22

AlibabaQwen 3.8 MaxOPEN51.8%

Full Results Table

#	Model	Overall	Source	Date
🥇	Claude Opus 5 Anthropic	67.2	VALS (2026)	2026-07
🥈	Claude Fable 5 Anthropic	66.0	VALS (2026)	2026-06
🥉	GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI	63.7	VALS (2026)	2026-07
4	GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI	59.9	VALS (2026)	2026-07
5	Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic	59.6	VALS (2026)	2026-06
6	Grok 4.6 xAI	59.2	VALS (2026)	2026-08
7	Kimi K3OPEN Moonshot AI	57.8	VALS (2026)	2026-07
8	Muse Spark 1.2 Meta	57.0	VALS (2026)	2026-08
9	GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI	56.5	VALS (2026)	2026-07
10	Gemini 3.6 Flash Google	55.4	VALS (2026)	2026-07
11	Muse Spark 1.1 Meta	54.8	VALS (2026)	2026-07
12	DeepSeek V4 FlashOPEN DeepSeek	53.6	VALS (2026)	2026-07
13	GLM 5.2OPEN Zhipu AI	53.1	VALS (2026)	2026-06
14	DeepSeek V4 Pro (0813)OPEN DeepSeek	52.4	VALS (2026)	2026-08
15	Qwen 3.8 MaxOPEN Alibaba	51.8	VALS (2026)	2026-08
16	Grok 4.5 xAI	51.5	VALS (2026)	2026-07
17	Qwen 3.7 Plus Alibaba	38.6	VALS (2026)	2026-06
18	Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google	36.7	VALS (2026)	2026-07
19	InklingOPEN Thinking Machines	34.1	VALS (2026)	2026-07
20	Inkling SmallOPEN Thinking Machines	31.9	VALS (2026)	2026-07
21	Nemotron 3 UltraOPEN NVIDIA	27.4	VALS (2026)	2026-06
22	Ling 3.0 FlashOPEN Ant Group	21.7	VALS (2026)	2026-07