The Public Standard for
Real-World AI Benchmarks
Generic benchmarks only go so far.
Vals AI evaluates models on the
real tasks each industry relies on.
Vals AI runs 35 independent AI benchmarks across legal, finance, healthcare, coding, math, and more. Each leaderboard compares large language models (LLMs) on accuracy, cost, and latency, and each methodology page explains how the benchmark is run.
As of October 19, 2026, Claude Sonnet 5.5 ranks first on the Vals Index with 70.85%, followed by Claude Opus 5.5 (70.18%) and Gemini 4 Argon (69.24%). See the full Vals Index leaderboard.
Vals Indexes
Vals Multimodal Index
Benchmark consisting of a weighted performance across finance, coding, and education tasks. Showing the potential impact that LLMs can have on the economy.
Legal benchmarks
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1
Tests an agent's ability to complete legal work using documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and file-system tools.
CaseLaw v2
Private question-answer benchmark over Canadian court-cases.
Finance benchmarks
Finance Agent v2
Evaluating agents on core financial analyst tasks
Excel Modeling Benchmark
Evaluating agents on Excel-based financial modeling tasks
CorpFin v2
A private benchmark evaluating understanding of long-context credit agreements
MortgageTax
Evaluating reading and understanding tax certificates as images
TaxEval v2
A Vals-created set of questions and responses to tax questions
Healthcare benchmarks
MedQA
Evaluating language model bias in medical questions.
Mental Health benchmarks
Math benchmarks
AIME
Challenging national math exam given to top high-school students
MATH 500
Academic math benchmark on probability, algebra, and trigonometry
MGSM
A multilingual benchmark for mathematical questions.
Science benchmarks
Academic benchmarks
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level Google-Proof Q&A benchmark evaluating models on questions that require deep reasoning.
MMLU Pro
Academic multiple-choice benchmark covering 14 subjects including STEM, humanities, and social sciences.
MMMU Pro
Multimodal Multi-task Benchmark
Education benchmarks
Voice benchmarks
Coding benchmarks
Code Migration
Can language models reimplement working programs in another language?
Terminal-Bench 2.1
State-of-the-art set of difficult terminal-based tasks
SWE-bench Verified
Solving production software engineering tasks
LiveCodeBench
Our Implementation of the LiveCodeBench benchmark
Terminal-Bench 2.0
State-of-the-art set of difficult terminal-based tasks
Social Mobility benchmarks
Public Benefits Bench v1.1
Can AI help people navigate SNAP benefits?
Top Models
Claude Opus 5
Claude Fable 5.1
Wonder Full
Public Benefits Bench v1
Can AI help people navigate SNAP benefits?