FINESSE-Bench - CFA-like Level 3: leaderboard
Metric: Accuracy (%) on the 318 CFA-like Level 3 multiple-choice questions on portfolio management, wealth planning, risk management and ethics cases 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: Around January 2027. 31 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | GLM-5 | 83.96 |
| 2 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Medium) | 82.39 |
| 3 | Qwen 3.5 Plus (2026-02-15) | 82.08 |
| 4 | Kimi K2.5 | 81.13 |
| 5 | GLM-4.7 | 80.19 |
| 6 | GPT-5.2 (Medium) | 80.19 |
| 7 | Claude 3.7 Sonnet (Thinking) | 78.93 |
| 8 | DeepSeek R1 0528 | 77.36 |
| 9 | Qwen 3.5 122B A10B | 76.73 |
| 10 | Qwen 3.5 27B | 76.42 |
| 11 | Qwen 3.5 35B A3B | 75.16 |
| 12 | Qwen 3 235B A22B 2507 (Thinking) | 74.84 |
| 13 | Qwen 3.5 Flash (02-23) | 74.53 |
| 14 | Qwen 3.5 397B A17B | 72.01 |
| 15 | Llama 4 Maverick | 71.7 |
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=finesse-bench-cfa-like-level-3 · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-07.