Benchmark profile
Vals Index v1.2 (Vals Index)
Vals AI composite benchmark across finance and coding tasks, including Finance Agent v2, CorpFin v2, SWE-bench, Terminal-Bench 2.1, and Vibe Code Bench.
Data verifiedHow BenchLM shows Vals Index
BenchLM mirrors the public Vals AI Vals Index leaderboard captured from https://www.vals.ai/benchmarks/vals_index and updated by Vals on July 16, 2026. The snapshot preserves overall scores, uncertainty, latency, cost-per-test metadata, and task-level scores where Vals publishes them.
Vals Index is display only on BenchLM. Vals proprietary or Vals-hosted aggregate views are useful context, but BenchLM does not use them as weighted ranking inputs or as a replacement for benchmark-native source records.
Vals Index score on Vals Index — July 16, 2026
BenchLM mirrors the published vals index score view for Vals Index. Claude Fable 5 leads the public snapshot at 75.14% , followed by Kimi K3 (74.70%) and GPT-5.6 Sol (73.12%). BenchLM does not use these results to rank models overall.
Claude Fable 5
Anthropic
anthropic/claude-fable-5
Kimi K3
Moonshot AI
kimi/kimi-k3
GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI
openai/gpt-5.6-sol
Vals Index score table (37 models)
ScoreThe published Vals Index snapshot places Claude Fable 5 first at 75.14%. The third row is 2.03 points behind. The broader top-10 range is 9.85 points, so many of the published results sit in a relatively narrow band.
37 models have been evaluated on Vals Index. The benchmark falls in the External benchmark mirrors category. We keep external benchmark mirrors separate from the weighted global scoring system, so these results remain source-specific evidence. Vals Index is currently displayed for reference but excluded from the scoring formula, so it does not directly affect overall rankings.
About Vals Index
Year
2026
Tasks
Finance and coding components
Format
Composite score
Difficulty
Private economic-work benchmark composite
BenchLM mirrors Vals Index v1.2 as a display-only external composite. It is useful context for Vals' private benchmark suite, but it is not used as a BenchLM weighted ranking input.
BenchLM freshness & provenance
Version
Vals Index 2026
Refresh cadence
Quarterly
Staleness state
Current
Question availability
Public benchmark set
BenchLM uses freshness metadata to decide whether a benchmark should still be treated as a strong differentiator, a benchmark to watch, or a display-only reference. For the full scoring policy, see the BenchLM methodology page.
FAQ
What does Vals Index measure?
Vals AI composite benchmark across finance and coding tasks, including Finance Agent v2, CorpFin v2, SWE-bench, Terminal-Bench 2.1, and Vibe Code Bench.
Which model leads the published Vals Index snapshot?
Claude Fable 5 currently leads the published Vals Index snapshot with 75.14% vals index score. BenchLM shows this benchmark for display only and does not use it in overall rankings.
How many models are evaluated on Vals Index?
37 AI models are included in BenchLM's mirrored Vals Index snapshot, based on the public leaderboard captured on July 16, 2026.
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