Vals AI LegalBench: leaderboard

Vals AI's run of LegalBench, a set of legal reasoning tasks written by legal professionals and grouped into six kinds of reasoning: spotting issues, recalling rules, applying them, drawing conclusions, interpreting text, and rhetorical understanding. Vals runs each model itself under one harness and breaks the results out by reasoning type. Higher accuracy is better. Source: arxiv.org/abs/2308.11462.

Metric: Accuracy (%). Source: www.vals.ai. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 151 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Claude Fable 5 (Max)88.56#16 (Claude Fable 5)
2Claude Fable 5.1 (Max)88.51#9 (Claude Fable 5.1)
3Gemini 4 Argon (High)88.3#8 (Gemini 4 Argon)
4Muse Wonder Full (Max)87.42#10 (Muse Wonder Full)
5Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview) (High)87.4#58 (Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview))
6Gemini 3.7 Flash (High)87.26#23 (Gemini 3.7 Flash)
7Gemini 3 Pro (Preview) (High)87.03#66 (Gemini 3 Pro (Preview))
8Gemini 3.8 Flash (High)86.99#21 (Gemini 3.8 Flash)
9GPT-5.6 Sol (Max)86.97#19 (GPT-5.6 Sol)
10Claude Opus 5 (Max)86.97#12 (Claude Opus 5)
11Gemini 3 Flash (Preview) (High)86.86#82 (Gemini 3 Flash (Preview))
12Gemini 3.6 Flash (High)86.7#51 (Gemini 3.6 Flash)
13GPT-5.5 (xHigh)86.52#31 (GPT-5.5)
14Grok 4.6 (High)86.31#26 (Grok 4.6)
15Kimi K3 (Max)86.21#30 (Kimi K3)

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

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