FINESSE-Bench - CFA-like Level 1: leaderboard
Metric: Accuracy (%) on the 1069 CFA-like Level 1 multiple-choice questions on foundational finance (ethics, quantitative methods, economics, financial reporting, corporate finance, investments) of FINESSE-Bench; a GPT-5.2 judge marks each answer correct or incorrect against the reference; zero-shot, one fixed prompt per task type, temperature 0 where possible, reasoning configurations with medium effort where the model offers them; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 31 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Medium) | 89.79 |
| 2 | Kimi K2.5 | 89.24 |
| 3 | Qwen 3.5 Plus (2026-02-15) | 88.96 |
| 4 | GLM-5 | 88.59 |
| 5 | Qwen 3.5 122B A10B | 88.03 |
| 6 | GLM-4.7 | 87.65 |
| 7 | Qwen 3.5 397B A17B | 87.56 |
| 8 | GPT-5.2 (Medium) | 87.36 |
| 9 | Qwen 3 235B A22B 2507 (Thinking) | 87 |
| 10 | Qwen 3.5 Flash (02-23) | 86.62 |
| 11 | Qwen 3.5 35B A3B | 86.34 |
| 12 | Qwen 3.5 27B | 85.87 |
| 13 | DeepSeek R1 0528 | 85.87 |
| 14 | Claude 3.7 Sonnet (Thinking) | 84.19 |
| 15 | Qwen 3 32B | 84 |
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=finesse-bench-cfa-like-level-1 · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-07.